Branson High School Educators Rising

Educators Rising State was this weekend. Our students have worked so hard since the beginning of the school year on their competition pieces.

We are proud to announce our results:

🥇1st place🥇

Exploring Non-Core Content- Natasha Girard

Exploring Support Services- Cate Cogdill

Children's Literature Pre-K Spanish- Andrea Menjivar & Jimena Rangel

Teacher Recruitment PSA- Jessica Chavira, Morgan Hernandez, Joselyn Badajoz

Children's Literature Pre-K- Milan Gao

🥈2nd place 🥈

Lesson Plan Early Childhood- Rylee Swinson

Children's Literature K - 3- Brianna Cardwell & Macie Nichols

🥉3rd place 🥉

Ethical Dilemma- Kathy Flores, Issie Burdick, Mia Grado, Amelia Holly

We are so grateful for the opportunities our students get to experience in the district.

Come support us at Squeazy today! While you are out finishing up shopping grab a shake for a quick meal replacement or an energizing tea!

What a great group of kids! We had our first fundraiser tonight and our students used their critical thinking skills and figured out how to best run the visitor concession stand. In addition, the students had excellent communication with each other and their customers! It was a fun and successful night.

Ready to get some professional development in!

Here are the semi-finalists for Children's Literature Pre-K Spanish- Jimena Rangel and Andrea Menjivar! They placed in the top 10 in the country.

Way to go girls!

Award time is here. No matter how our students do, we are proud! They have worked hard, pushed outside their comfort zone, and have learned so much. This has been a wonderful experience for them in so many ways. Let's go Branson!!!!

Yesterday was another day of competitions and breakout sessions. There was a break in the middle of the day followed by a social event for students. Back at the hotel students taught us some new dances and we taught them a few too. Learning never stops!

Tomorrow, the results of the competitions!

What a wonderful day at Educators Rising Nationals!

Students competed, took the ParaPro(paraprofessional) test, attended breakout sessions, networked with others from around the country, and finished the day with a keynote from the Teacher of the Year.

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Educators Rising Teacher of the Year recipients. These teachers were nominated as someone who embodies what it means to be a teacher through inspiring and encouraging our students and the next generation of teachers.

Mr. Josh Cheezum, High School
Mrs. Stephanie Butler, CRI
Ms. Gracie Campbell, BE
Mrs. Holli Segura, JH

Bellanne Johnson and I are so proud of these future teachers! This is our second year leading Educators Rising and our first year competing. The amount of time & effort our student's put in outside of school to compete paid off. They secured two first place wins and two second place wins. We went in with no expectations other than getting experience, and all of our students represented Branson High School so well!

First place wins:
Children's Literature Pre-K Spanish
Children's Literature K-3

This category required the students to write and illustrate children's books.

Second place wins:
Inside Our Schools
Job Interview

Inside Our Schools showcases a program that has had a positive impact in our district. Our students chose a program at CRE called Winning Wednesday.

Job Interview is what it sounds like 😁 Students have to prepare a resume, cover letter, and do an interview for a paraprofessional position within a school.

Other areas we competed in were:
Exploring Non- Core Subject Teaching Careers
Public Speaking

If you see these students around, congratulate them!

We have an amazing group of students who have the qualities of being great teachers! They are in "competition mode" which means, easing each other's nerves, practicing with one another, and giving words of affirmation right before they go compete.