Russellville School District

🚨Cyclone Robotics (Team 967T) is competing this week at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas! 🎉 Huge congrats to Gavin Hurbanek, Logan Magill, Ramon Castro, and Jake Trent, who earned their spot by winning the Arkansas State Tournament Champion Award—putting them among the top robotics teams in the world. 📺 Watch them live and cheer them on! Wednesday, May 7 Live Stream Link: https://www.vexworlds.tv/#/viewer/broadcasts/qualification-matches-engineering-lmexnmtf1g6t8ui97lzv/ktmmup69r6upkevrx6mw • Match 40 (Red) – 9:02 AM • Match 52 (Blue) – 9:49 AM • Match 69 (Red) – 10:55 AM • Match 94 (Red) – 1:31 PM • Match 116 (Blue) – 2:57 PM • Match 145 (Red) – 4:51 PM • Match 160 (Blue) – 5:49 PM Thursday, May 8 Live Stream Link: https://www.vexworlds.tv/#/viewer/broadcasts/qualification-matches-engineering-usw0zkxqdcinq1fuou7m/fyjwzmujqg9eyniri454 • Match 184 (Red) – 9:20 AM • Match 203 (Blue) – 10:33 AM #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

🧠💚 RSD Mental Health Fair! 💚🧠 📅 Date: May 7, 2025 📍 Location: RMS Campus ⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM 🎟️ Admission: FREE! #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🎉 Celebrate Your Favorite Teacher! 🎉 Pick a graphic 📸 and send a thank-you to a teacher who’s made a difference in your life! 💌 Email it to them at: firstname.lastname@rsdk12.net Let’s show our teachers how much they mean to us! 🍎✏️ #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

🍎✨ Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 📚❤️ This week, we celebrate the incredible teachers who inspire, support and shape the future every single day. Thank you for your dedication, passion, and the countless ways you make a difference! We appreciate you today and every day! #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🌟 Classroom Spotlight: Ms. Orellana’s Class at Oakland Heights Elementary! 📚✨ Students have been hard at work building their reading skills! 📖💬 They practiced sounding out words, working both in small groups and independently to grow as confident readers. 🧠 Great focus and teamwork! #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🎉Coach Quoss has been named the Friends of Arkansas Quiz Bowl Overall Senior High Coach of the Year! 🏆 Coach Quoss continues to inspire and lead the RSD High School Quiz Bowl team. This season was nothing short of extraordinary: ✅ 77-4 overall record ✅ 10 tournament wins – including 9 invitationals and the State Championship last Saturday (our 9th consecutive state title!) ✅ National Champions at the 2024 National Academic Challenge ✅ 3 All-Region players ✅ 4 All-State players – Sarah Shoptaw, Gidian Fuller, Keegan Fuller, and Ian Warnick ✅ Winners of both the Arkansas History Bowl & History Bee! Thank you, Coach Quoss, for your leadership and dedication. You make RSD proud! 📚🥇 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

✨ National School Principals Appreciation Day! 🎉 Today, we celebrate RSD’s incredible principals who lead our students to amazing futures. Thank you for your guidance, support, and commitment to making our school a place where everyone can thrive. We appreciate all you do! #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🌟 Classroom Spotlight: Mrs. Gray’s Class! 📚✨ At Crawford Elementary, Mrs. Gray’s students dove into phonics fun, exploring open and closed syllables! 🎶✍️ They practiced with marker boards, counted sounds in words 🔔, and worked together to build sentences on the board — teamwork and learning in action! 🧠 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

For the second year in a row, Russellville School District has been named a 2024-2025 Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase District! 🎉 PLUS — 8 RSD schools have earned National Showcase School status: 🏫 Center Valley Elementary 🏫 Crawford Elementary 🏫 Dwight Elementary 🏫 London Elementary 🏫 Oakland Heights Elementary 🏫 Sequoyah Elementary 🏫 Russellville Intermediate School 🏫 Russellville Middle School ➡️ Read more here: https://www.rsdk12.net/article/2179685

🌟 Classroom Spotlight: Mr. Brad Beatty’s Class! 📚✨ At Russellville Intermediate School, Mr. Beatty’s class gathered evidence to support the argument that the sun's brightness relies on the distance from the sun. Students used models to describe and explain space systems—including how we experience day and night, Planets, Constellations, and rotations! 🌞🌙 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🌟 Classroom Spotlight: Mrs. Hilton's Class! 📚✨ At Russellville Intermediate School, Mrs. Hilton’s students used models to describe and explain space systems—including how we experience day and night, Planets, Constellations, and rotations! 🌞🌙 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🏅 I Believe in RSD Award: Coach Casey Spradlin, Russellville Middle School Teacher and Coach Coach Spradlin was awarded an I Believe in RSD Award in April. " I have many family members who have been in Education. Teachers, Coaches and Administration. I also had many coaches throughout my time in Athletics tell me that I should go into teaching and coaching. I have been blessed to play a small part in this district. As I have progressed through the years, I feel that we, teachers/coaches who have been around need to pass on information that we have pieced up to the younger teachers and coaches. I have had the opportunity to teach at RMS now for many years. Without a doubt, this staff works long extra hours to help each and every student get the best education in the state. We all work together for each student. We also have an amazing staff. From our maintenance/custodial to our teachers/administration staff. It truly is a family! " ❤️Thank you for all you do, Coach Spradlin! ➡️ Read more about the I Believe in RSD Awards here: https://www.rsdk12.net/article/2162905 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🎓

Cyclone Quiz Bowl Fans, The RHS Quiz Bowl team will compete at the State Competition this Saturday! You can watch it live on youtube.com/arkansaspbs or on the PBS video app. Make sure to tune in! Good luck to the Cyclones Quiz Bowl team! #OneRSD❤️🌪️🎓

🌟 Classroom Spotlight: Mrs. Nagel’s Kindergarten Class! 📚✨ At Dwight Elementary, Mrs. Nagel’s students have been working hard on mastering the "TH" sound! 🗣️✍️ They practiced saying it out loud and writing "TH" words to build their phonics and writing skills. So proud of these early readers and writers! 💛👏 #OneRSD ❤️🌪️🖤

🎭✨ Last week the 4th graders at Sequoyah Elementary put on a fantastic musical performance called "JOUST" Huge shoutout to Jessica Clark, their amazing music teacher! 🎶 #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

🚌 Happy School Bus Driver Appreciation Day! 🚌 Today we thank our RSD bus drivers who safely transport our students to and from school every day! Thank you for the care you show to every student. Your role is vital, and we appreciate everything you do to keep our school community moving! 🖤 If you see a bus driver today, be sure to say thank you! #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

The RSD Board of Education voted to hire Dr. Luke Lovins as the next Superintendent for Russellville School District at the called board meeting this evening. Find more information about Dr. Luke Lovins here: https://www.rsdk12.net/page/rsd-superintendent-search

The Cyclone Quiz Bowl team advanced to their 10th straight state finals with a dominating performance this past Saturday after defeating teams from Van Buren, Sylvan Hills, Texarkana, and Little Rock Catholic. The Cyclones will play Sheridan live on Arkansas PBS on April 26th for a chance to win their 9th straight state title! #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

The Future Cyclones Extravaganza was a great success! Families from across the district joined us at Sequoyah Elementary to learn all about Kindergarten at RSD and what it means to begin the journey as a Cyclone. Attendees met some of our amazing educators and school representatives and gathered helpful information to navigate entering into Kindergarten! #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤

🎶 Last week, Russellville School District hosted its 3rd Annual Night of Percussion at the Center for the Arts! 🥁✨ Students from 6th to 12th grade came together to showcase their incredible percussion talents. What an amazing showcase of the musical talent we have here at RSD! #OneRSD❤️🌪️🖤