Electrifying News – Happy Birthday Helen Keller!
This weekend, June 26 – 29, four Texas students will compete in the 25th Braille Challenge Finals in Los Angeles! The Awards Ceremony will be live streamed on Saturday at 8:20p CST. Best of luck to EmmaGrace O. and Ashton P. in the Varsity Category and Caylen C. and Randy V. in Junior Varsity. We’ll be cheering them on! Learn more about this event from our Media Minute on the Braille Challenge.
We also celebrate Helen Keller’s Birthday this week. Helen was born on June 27th in 1880. She lived to be 87 years old. Helen Keller was famous for her education as a Deafblind individual and spent her whole life advocating for people with disabilities, championing labor rights, promoting world peace, and was a well known suffragette. Since we’re a school, I’d like to share a quote containing her thoughts on education. In “My Key to Life” written in 1926, Helen stated:
“The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage–the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit that conserves the best that all men think. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile force of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives as those which his intolerance has destroyed.”
HHSC is hosting a Deafblind Awareness Week Art Show and Reception on Wednesday, June 25th, from 9a – 12:30p. The public event will be held at the North Austin Complex, 4601 W. Guadalupe St. in training rooms 1.401 – 1.404. The art will remain on display until July 25th.
Have a great week!
Emily Coleman, Superintendent