What's New with Selma City Schools?

Team Selma is still on the move!  We are excited about this upcoming school year.  With a smooth opening and new theme, the optimism is palpable.

One Team, One Voice: Committed to Excellence is our theme for the year.  The team includes the entire Selma community and we look forward to working together to improve outcomes for the children and families of Selma.

This year, Selma High School will introduce the Star Academy.  This unique structure will allow us to support our middle and high school scholars who are overaged and/or have been retained.  The goal is to help them earn the credits that they need to graduate on time.  We are aiming to start after Labor Day and more updates will be shared as the year progresses.

Selma City School’s Strong Start Pre-K at Sophia P. Kingston Elementary school is up and running.  We still have a few slots remaining and encourage families of four-year olds to apply now.  Early learning is key to our scholars being school ready by kindergarten and leads to higher graduation rates long term.

R.B. Hudson is now the R.B. Hudson STEAM Academy.  We are infusing science, technology, engineering, arts and math throughout our curriculum.  Scholars will have opportunities for more hands-on learning to include STEAM Day every Friday.  Volunteers and community partners are always appreciated.

Each of our elementary schools are creating Academies of Academic Excellence.  Each school will feature a unique area of focus that includes improving literacy outcomes for our scholars.  Academies range from Social Justice and Performing Arts to Commerce and Entrepreneurship.  Later in the school year, I will do a feature on each school. 

Bullying prevention is important for our scholars to feel safe.  With a new policy in place, we are also implementing new procedures.  This includes how to report bullying.  In this age of social media, cyber bullying has become more prevalent.  Our new procedure addresses this as well.  October is Bullying Prevention Month and we will share facts and hear from our scholars about how they help prevent bullying at their schools.

Finally, next spring, Team Selma will be visited by AdvancED for our accreditation engagement review.  We are excited to share all that’s great within our school district.  This will also be a time for the community to get involved.  If you are interested in being on a focus group, please let me know!

We have a busy year ahead and I could not be more excited to lead these efforts.  Get involved.  We need you on our team!

For more information, please reach out to me at avis.williams@selmacityschools.org.