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Vicksburg Intermediate honors 194 at Leadership Awards ceremony
VICKSBURG, MS. – Vicksburg Intermediate School celebrated and honored their students who either showed growth, achieved proficiency, or scored advanced on one or more of the State ELA, Math or Science tests, known as MAAPS, at yesterday’s Leadership Awards celebration.
The celebration began with a handful of students giving their classmates a reminder to “press pause”. That in times of frustration or anger to press pause and count to three before responding out of anger, a topic of the Leader in Me curriculum.
According to Vicksburg Intermediate School Principal Lakesha Batty, roughly 300 students in total showed growth, achieved proficiency, or scored advanced from last years testing. Of the 300, roughly one hundred were sixth graders last year and have now graduated to the junior high schools.
The ceremony then went on to announce and honor each of the 194 current students for their successes, twenty-two of them had perfect scores. Those twenty-two have their pictures adorned along the fence line like athletes.
Children will rise
“We set very high expectations, as we truly believe that if you set the expectation, children will rise,” said Principal Batty, “We use our essential programs and principles that are set and established in our Leader in Me program. The students have really bought in to it, [and] our teachers have bought in to it. We’re working so hard to get our parents to buy in to it, so it can become a part of everyday life, and not a program, but habits that we truly live by.”
Vicksburg Daily News is pleased to report that those words ring true. In spite of the event being during the work day, nearly every single child had a parent or grandparent in attendance, with roughly 500 people filling the auditorium. Principal Batty attributed this in part to communication.
“We make it a point to make sure we communicate and even over-communicate to our parents to make sure they are fully aware of whats going on at the school,” said Principal Batty. “They have a constant reminder where to be, when to be.”
As another example, it was announced during this event that an open house later this week will give the parents an opportunity tospend a the day in the life of their children, including changing classes and sitting at their child’s desk.
VIS MAAPS scores honorees
Below is the list of the 194 Vicksburg Intermediate students who either showed growth, achieved proficiency, or scored advanced on one or more of the State ELA, Math or Science tests:
AARON, CURTIS
ALLEN, ARIANA
ANDERSON, ROYALTII
ANDREWS, JONATHAN
ARMSTRONG, K’LEIGH
BADEY, FAISAL
BAILEY, ADRIANNA
BAILEY, CALASIA
BAILEY, JA’KYERIAH
BAILEY, KHAYDEN
BANKS, JASHOD
BARNES, JAALIYAH
BEE, KYLAN
BELL, JAMIR
BERRY, KHLOE
BLAKE, CALEB
BROWN, AALIYAH
BROWN, JAY’DARIUS
BROWN, KASMIN
BURKETT, AYDEN
BUTLER, JAYCE
CER, LEN
CHAMBERS, ISAIAH
CLEMONS, ANDREWS
COSBY, AMIYAH
COSBY, TRISTAN
CRUMP,DALYCE
CURRY, JERMERIA
CURRY, SERENITY
CURTIS KARINA
DANIEL, D’ELLA
DANIEL, DAYJAH
DAVIS, KYNSLEY
DAVIS, MILAH
DEE, CARMELO
DEE, DENIJA
DULANEY, KAVION
DULANEY, MALIK
EDMOND, DE’REONNA
ELLIS-BOGGAN, SA’MARRIA
ENGLISH, AMELIA
FLOWERS, DEWAYNE
FRANKLIN, MADISON
FRITH, ALYSEA
GIBSON, CA’LONDYN
GILMORE, KOURTNEY
GONZALEZ, XAVIER
GRANT, KALLIE
GREEN, DESIRE
GRISSOM, NEVAEH
HALL, CA’SYIA
HARRIS, JAYDEN
HARRIS, KANEICE
HARRIS, NICHOLAS
HARRIS, RICHARD
HART, JEREMIAH
HEDRICK, MEGAN
HENDERSON, JAMES
HENYARD, K’VIEN
HILL, BREE’LYNN
HINDS, JAHBARI
HOLLIE, BRITTISH
HORTON, D’RADER
HORTON, DAVEUN
HUNTER, CALLIYHA
HYLAND, MADISON
HYLAND, MARIYAH
JACKSON, IAN
JACKSON, JAIDEN
JACKSON, JONATHAN
JACKSON, QUINTON
JACKSON, SHANDERIOUS
JEFFERSON, DEZAVIONA
JENKINS, KHALIL
JOHNSON, ALBERT
JOHNSON, PEYTON
JONES, ADISYN
JONES, BRELYN
JONES, JOSHUA
JONES, KAIDIEN
JONES, KALEB
JONES, SYLVESTER
JORDAN, LONDYN
KELLY, AMMIE
KENNEDY, KINGSTON
KING, DANIELLE
KNIGHT, DEANDREA
LARRY, KENNETH
LAWRENCE, DARIO
LEE, ADRIAN
LEONARD, AYDEN
LEWIS, AUBREY
LEWIS, DA’KAYLEA
LINDSEY, JASMINE
LOGAN, CAYLEE
LOVE, A’LAIYAH
LUCAS, AYDEN
LUMPKIN, BRAXTON
MACK, CULLEN
MADDOX, KEWANNA
MANIEL, JAYCEON
MARLEY, ARMAUD
MARTIN, CERENITY
MAULDIN, JACKSON
MAYFIELD, ITHAN
MCCARTHY, DOMINICK
MCKINNEY, KYLIN
MINOR, CRISTIAN
MONTGOMERY, HOSEA
MOORE LILLYONNA
MOORE, TRISTON
MYLES, GE’DARIUS
NEAL, AYDEN
NEWELL, ARIAN
NEWTON, DEAIRE
NICHOLAS, ZY’KERRIA
NWANERI, GOODNESS
NWANERI, MERCY
NWANERI, MOONLIGHT
ODOM, KHLOE
ODOM, ZANDER
ODOM, ZEPHANIAH
ONEAL, JACEY
OWSLEY, DEWEY
OZBURN, LUCAS
PALMER, KEVARIA
PALMER, KEVIN
PARKER, CASSIDY
PARKER, LEJAND
PARSON, DESTIN
PHELPS, GENESIS
POLLARD, DAVID
QUALLS, D’KAYDEN
RAMSEY, KALEA
RAWLS, CARTER
RODGERS, LIAM
ROSS, BROOKLYNN
SALDANA, MATEO
SANDERS, JAYLYN
SCOTT, LYRIC
SCOTT, MALASIA
SCOTT, SYMPHONY
SHEARS, AMARI
SHELBY, KIRIAH
SHELTON, KACEI
SHELTON, ZYKERIA
SHORTS, AUTUMN
SIMPSON, JORDAN
SIMPSON, QUADARRIUS
SIMS, MAJOR
SINGLETON, KIMORA
SMITH, AALIYAH
SMITH, JOSHUA
SMITH, LANDON
SMITH, LONDYN
SMITH, NI’KHYA
SMITH, SANAA
SMITH, TAMIA
SMITH, TRADASHIA
SMITH, TRISTON
STEWART, AR-ZAEVION
STRONG, CALLIE
TAYLOR, JOSEPH
TAYLOR, TRISTIN
THIGPEN, KELSEY
THIGPEN, KORY JR.
THOMAS, JALISSA
THORNTON, FORD
THORNTON, RYAN
TILLEY, JUSTIN
TILLMAN, BRAYDEN
TOWNSEND, SERENITY
TUCKER, TRINITY
VARNADO TYLER
WALKER, CAMILLE
WALKER, JANAE
WALKER, JAYCEON
WARE, JADARRION
WARE, JALEYA
WARFIELD, RUBEN
WATSON, JOSEPH
WEATHERSBY, MIRI
WESLEY, BRYSON
WILLIAMS, ABBIE
WILLIAMS, BRYSEN
WILLIAMS, HARMONY
WILLIAMS, J’NIYA
WILLIAMS, JEREMY
WILLIAMS, JOHNATHAN
WILLIAMS, KIMORA
WILSON, CARLTON
WRIGHT, JADARRIUS
YOUNG, TERRANCE
YOUNGER, JAYVEION
