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Houston Prepared Table Charter School
By | Friday, August 27, 2010 11:54 AM
The State Executive Committee suspended Prepared Table Charter School from all UIL activities until a school administrator appears before the State Executive Committee to answer allegations involving misconduct by coach and players.
Official Interpretation
By Mark Cousins, policy director | Friday, August 27, 2010 8:31 AM
Official State Executive Committee Interpretation of section 1206 (e) of the UIL Constitution and Contest Rules:
Section 1206: SCHOOL PRACTICE And GAME RESTRICTIONS
(e) Athletic/Physical Education Classes. Schools will not be required to grant local credit in physical education for student athletes who have completed two units of physical education credit toward state graduation requirements. Student athletes shall not be enrolled in more than one physical education and/or athletic class whether or not they are receiving credit.
Exceptions (with local school approval): PE Class: Adventure/Outdoor Education; PE Substitutes: JROTC, Cheerleading, Drill Team, Marching Band
Good Sportsmanship: It Doesn’t Just Happen
By Cliff Odenwald, director of athletics | Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:56 PM
In today’s culture, young people are bombarded by images of celebrity athletes. Even high school athletes get caught up in believing that it is “all about me.” Students see professional athletes performing celebration dances and promoting themselves, but what doesn’t always make the news are pictures and stories of athletes demonstrating sportsmanship and integrity. Our duty as coaches, teachers, parents and administrators is to emphasize the honor of the game and to teach our athletes the meaning of sportsmanship.
School sponsored athletic programs represent amateur athletics at its best. This year coaches will have an endless stream of teachable moments with the best classroom, whether on the court or on the field. Coaches must recognize and praise displays of good sportsmanship like the behavior of Armando Galarraga, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, who was pitching a perfect game until a bad call was made on the last out of the ninth inning. Galarraga displayed class as he respected the call made by the umpire. The umpire also displayed class as he reviewed the play and admitted it was a bad call. Both men took the high road and demonstrated what is right about athletics and sportsmanship.
Exciting and Busy Year Begins for Academics
By Treva Dayton, academic director | Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:49 PM
Welcome back to yet another new school year! We hope it is an exciting and successful one for you and your students. It was wonderful to see so many of you enthusiastically preparing for another season of academic and theatre competition at our largest ever Capital Conference in July. You can see and hear more about the conference through a slideshow posted in this Leaguer.
If you attended the conference and turned in your attendance hours for CPE credit, you need to go to the academic Web page and print your certificate before Sept. 30.
As you can see from the totally new look of our website, UIL staff has been working diligently to provide more user-friendly, effective communication with member schools and the general public. Please take the time to explore the site to locate those links and resources you most often use and to discover the many new features now available. With a little patience you can find everything you need at this time of year. Honest.
New PML Revision Committee Takes Shape
By Richard Floyd, director of music | Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:42 PM
In January of 2010 I wrote about a vision to modify the process that we use to review and amend the Prescribed Music List. It started out like this.
The long standing procedure for revising the Prescribed Music List has consisted of appointing a committee of five to seven people in band, choir and orchestra, who have four years to study the PML, consider additions and deletions and make recommendations that are incorporated into the list for the next four years. Then the cycle begins anew. This process has remained basically unchanged since at least the 1960s when I served on the PML Revision Committee.
Yet, over the past decade technology has dramatically changed virtually every aspect of how we deal with print music and audio recordings. And, at the same time everything I hear and read suggests that there are many more changes to come. In addition, our Prescribed Music List is now maintained in an electronic database online so there is no need to wait four years to complete a revision in order to print a new book. We can amend the list immediately with just a few keystrokes.
A Few Reminders as the School Year Starts
By David Lambert, TMAA President | Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:39 PM
Welcome back to a new school year and the opportunities it provides you to influence the lives of young people. Nothing is more important than providing a student with a good educational foundation and life skills to help them make their mark in the world.
Since the 2010-2011 school year is just beginning, I thought it might be a good time to re-address a few on-going concerns regarding TMAA, as well as some new concerns that were brought forth last year. Some of this may seem redundant, but it needs to be reiterated so that we keep it fresh in our minds as we go about the daily routine of preparing students for the various competitions and events in the coming year and preparing ourselves to serve as adjudicators for many of these events.
New Media Workshop Excites More Than It Scares
By Jeanne Acton | Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:12 PM
This summer I went back to the classroom. Not as a teacher, but as a student. I attended the TAJE/ILPC New Media Workshop. For three days, former professional journalist Andrea Lorenz filled my brain with all things new media.
The workshop was amazing. Andrea taught me and 18 other classmates how to set up a website, how to make audio slide shows, how to edit podcasts, how to edit video and more. It was a lot, but Andrea organized everything in such a way that my simple brain could wrap itself around all of the new information.
Plus, she gave us so much supporting materials, that even if I forgot everything I learned in those three days, I could relearn it through the information she gave us.
Donahue Comes Home to the League
By Julianne Coyne | Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:14 AM
Ashley Donahue
Photo by Julianne Coyne
UIL’s newest employee, Ashley Donahue, administrative assistant for speech and debate, has an almost 20-year history with the League. That’s pretty impressive since she’s only 26 years old.
In second grade Donahue started competing in storytelling and creative writing. It was a rather traumatic first experience with UIL.
“When I first got to the school for that competition, I had to go to the restroom,” she said. “A teacher showed me where to go, but when I came out everyone was gone. They just left me.”
Nolan Ryan Throws the First Pitch at 2010 Baseball Tournament
By Jeanne Acton | Monday, August 23, 2010 2:03 PM
Photos and video of Nolan Ryan throwing the First Pitch at the 2010 5A Baseball State Championship Game.
ILPC Pilots Documentary Contest
By Jeanne Acton | Friday, August 20, 2010 1:48 PM
At the 2010 ILPC Summer Workshop, instructor Andrea Lorenz works with adviser Bill DeFries from Corpus Christi King High School. DeFries and his editor took the New Media class to learn how to create videos, audio slideshows, websites and more. Photo was taken by a 2010 ILPC Summer Workshop photography student.
It’s time to tell us your school’s UIL story — video documentary style.
The Interscholastic League Press Conference will offer a new documentary film contest this year — “UIL: Our Story.”