![]() ![]() As a Smith System dealer, she’s worked with Celina ISD to evolve the district furniture standards to address 21st century learning needs. To help accommodate that growth, the district opened O’Dell in Fall 2017 and outfitted its classrooms exclusively with Smith System seating, tables, storage and more.īut there was one space where the district elected to delay the purchase of furniture, explained Rhonda Ellington, vice president of sales with Texas-based Lone Star Furnishings. The district’s student population is expected to double in five years, and double again in the subsequent five years. With 500 students, Donny O’Dell Elementary is one of two elementary schools in the rapidly growing Celina Independent School District (Celina ISD) 40 miles north of Dallas. That wasn’t always the case at the grades 1–5 public school. “Even I underestimated the value of a STEM lab.” ![]() We have kids begging to come to STEM, instead of P.E.,” reported Shana Kriechbaum (Miss K.), a former fifth-grade science teacher and current STEM instructor at O’Dell. Creating the Ideal Incubator for “STEMineers”Īsk an elementary kid, “Name one thing you love about your school,” and you don’t expect to hear “STEM lab!” Yet that’s exactly what’s happening at Donny O’Dell Elementary in Celina, TX, after only four months of having its STEM lab up and running. ![]()
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