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Nicholas Ramsey, Christopher Coleman, Jonathan Coleman, Esther Luna, Terry Yarbrough, Dakota Snow and Madison Fitzwater.
Masonic Lodge donates $6K toward clothing needs at elementaries
01/30/2024
The Masonic Lodge recently donated $6,000 to Poplar Bluff Schools, split between Eugene Field and Lake Road Elementary, to go toward clothing items for students in need.
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Patricia Thigpen
Eugene Field hosts 10th annual Leadership Day
04/18/2023
Eugene Field Elementary School hosted its 10th annual Leadership Day, showcasing how the students have found their voice before approximately 100 patrons on Thursday, April 6, in the gymnasium.
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Michelle Adams' first grade class.
Elementary students recreate Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
12/01/2022
Eugene Field hosted a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Wednesday, Nov. 16, as a lighthearted classroom tradition in advance of holiday break.
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Paul Boyer, Luna Matthews-Fratesi, Bay Paukner and residents.
Shepherds Fold accepts donation from students, pastor
11/08/2022
Eugene Field donated its proceeds from Red Ribbon Week to a residential treatment center, and a faith partner of the school pledged to match the contribution.
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Shaelynn Nordwald, Dede Ross, Cheri Sparkman, Carey Wilkerson, Crystal Huddleston and Charlene Mills.
MSTA surprises Poplar Bluff educators with $500 in grants
10/25/2022
The Missouri State Teachers Association recently awarded five $100 classroom project grants to Poplar Bluff faculty members out of 64 applications and 30 awarded in total within the Southeast region, according to officials.
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An initial group of elementary teachers practice classroom activities during their two-day Project Lead the Way Launch certification in June.
Project Lead the Way expands to elementary schools with grant ​
08/22/2022
Poplar Bluff R-I has been awarded over $55,000 to help expand Project Lead the Way’s premier science, technology, engineering and math curriculum to its elementary schools.
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Achievement at all-time high during 9th annual Leadership Day
04/12/2022
“There’s nothing more powerful than a kid with a dream,” said third grader Reagan Sparkman to help kick off the 9th annual Leadership Day themed ‘A million dreams’ on Friday, April 8, at Eugene Field.
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Jennifer Taylor
Poplar Bluff administrators honored regionally for leadership ​
03/08/2022
Two Poplar Bluff school administrators whose career paths are entwined were chosen by their peers to receive regional recognition this past weekend.
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Lindsay Allbritton, Terry Campbell and Esther Luna.
Masons donate $4,200 to Eugene Field, Lake Road ​
01/11/2022
Poplar Bluff Lodge No. 209 of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons recently donated $2,100 to Eugene Field and Lake Road Elementary, respectively, to purchase clothing items for students in need.
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Eugene Field Elementary students stand in a lighthouse formation in a choreographed pose.
Three R-I schools listed in top 15 of new statewide ranking ​
11/09/2021
Each of Poplar Bluff’s lower elementary buildings have been named ‘Best Elementary Schools’ by U.S. News & World Report, with three R-I campuses placing among the top 15 schools in Missouri.
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Esther Luna, Kadi Dare, Patty Reed, Linda Surber, Michelle Adams, Tucker Chance Lakin and Maci Ray.
Classroom project funded through new MRTA program
10/05/2021
A Eugene Field teacher has received a dozen STEM kits with hands-on building manipulatives for students to ‘go beyond the basic skills’ in the subject areas through a new grant program rolled out by the Missouri Retired Teachers’ Association.
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Esther Luna and Dr. Eric Blaich.
R-I school wins Blaich giveaway for second year
09/21/2021
Eugene Field recently received a $1,000 donation from a random drawing in Blaich Family Dentistry’s annual back-to-school giveaway.
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Eugene Field faculty, under the leadership of Jennifer Taylor, are honored by the district.
First district in Missouri to win both national ESEA awards
03/02/2021
Two Poplar Bluff elementaries have been named 2020 National ESEA Distinguished Schools, the first time in the 25-year history of the program that each of Missouri’s designees were a part of the same school system, a state official has confirmed.
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Privacy fence around Eugene Field playground.
Volunteers make quick work of privacy fencing
09/15/2020
More than 100 members of churches and student groups, among other organizations, came together over the weekend before school started to manually install numerous chain link fence slats, enhancing the privacy of the playground at Eugene Field Elementary.
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Hunter Brown and Paula Jackson celebrate.
Eugene Field raises $1,100 during 8th annual Coronation
02/26/2020
Eugene Field held its eighth annual Valentine King and Queen Coronation on Friday, Feb. 14, raising $1,100 for the elementary school’s Parent Teacher Organization.
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Morgan Jay
Apache teacher shares meaning of Thanksgiving with students
11/26/2019
Eugene Field first graders were provided a special opportunity to learn the meaning of Thanksgiving this holiday from the perspective of a full-blooded American Indian.
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Chase Brooks
Sixth annual Leadership Day: This Is Us
04/02/2019
Eugene Field presented a student-led program to community leaders and area educators on Friday, March 22, displaying how the leadership skills taught at the elementary school go above and beyond Missouri Learning Standards.
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First graders Malori Morandi and Chadrick Joehrs are crowned.
Annual PTO Valentine’s Day Coronation
02/26/2019
Eugene Field’s seventh annual Valentine King and Queen Coronation was celebrated on Thursday, Feb. 14, generating $850 for the elementary school’s activity fund.
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Alison Bell
Holiday bike donation program
01/07/2019
Thirty bicycles were given away to students at Eugene Field prior to the holiday through a newly forged partnership between Academy Sports + Outdoors and the Poplar Bluff Police Department.
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Church donates, installs sound panels at Eugene Field
Church donates, installs sound panels at Eugene Field
09/18/2018
Memorial Baptist Church identified a need and found a way to make a difference at Eugene Field through Bright Futures Poplar Bluff.
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‘I Believe in the Power of Yet’
‘I Believe in the Power of Yet’
03/27/2018
MAP scores and attendance at Eugene Field have increased while discipline referrals have gone down over the past several years, but perhaps more importantly, students are graduating the elementary school with tools to succeed in life.
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Student speaks before several hundred educators
Student speaks before several hundred educators
02/13/2018
A 9-year-old Eugene Field student was selected to introduce the keynote speaker at a regional conference in front of 600 educators.
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PBHS anti-bullying club visits elementary schools
01/30/2018
The Stand for the Silent group at Poplar Bluff High has begun visiting elementary school students this month to read children’s books with messages about anti-bullying, the club’s mission.
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Operation Warm
12/12/2017
Members of the Poplar Bluff Fire Department donated over a dozen new winter coats to students at Eugene Field Elementary on Thursday, Dec. 7.
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Lighthouse school shines at Leadership Day
04/11/2017
More than 100 area business associates, educators, pastors, social service workers, legislators and media members participated in the fourth annual Leadership Day at Eugene Field on Friday, April 7, at the elementary school.
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Second grade leaders visit with legislators
02/28/2017
Eugene Field Elementary was recently selected among 15 public schools in Missouri to showcase to legislators its highly successful programming.
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First ‘lighthouse’ school in Southeast Missouri
12/20/2016
Eugene Field has achieved lighthouse status under The Leader in Me program, joining only a dozen other schools in Missouri and less than 250 world-wide that have met the prestigious benchmark.
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Eugene Field becomes the talk of the town
04/12/2016
Eugene Field left attendees in tears of joy following Leadership Day on Friday, April 8, demonstrating why the elementary school is on track to become lighthouse certified, a prestigious designation currently held by only six schools in Missouri.
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Eugene Field to become official Leader in Me school
06/03/2013
Eugene Field has been awarded tens of thousands of dollars in training through Franklin Covey’s I Am A Leader Foundation, beginning June 26-28.
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$20K technology donation will equip a computer lab
02/11/2013
Poplar Bluff R-I recently received a $20,000 anonymous donation in technology, which seems to have become an annual tradition for the school district.
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Fourth graders play key role in teaching younger students math
11/30/2012
Earlier this school year, Eugene Field Elementary School fourth grader Maraleigh Buss entered Kelli Spitze’s first grade classroom and asked the teacher whether her students did their math homework.
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Elementary-school age students taught to become community leaders
11/05/2012
A culture of leadership is emerging out of Poplar Bluff Schools, but it is not the adults paving the way this time, it is the elementary and middle school students creating their own course.
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