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MHS students can earn dual credit

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Albany News

By Sam Waller

Moran High School students will be able to earn college credit this year under a program started by Moran ISD superintendent Dr. John Denson in cooperation with Cisco College.

Denson said the class, Advanced Animal Science, fits several needs for the students.

“In addition to a science credit, it counts as an ag class for FFA credit,” said Denson, who is teaching the group. “Cisco will give students a college credit, and it will transfer to another school if they want.”

Denson said all four Moran seniors are enrolled in the class.

“I think all of them are college-bound,” he said. “One wants to be a vet, one wants to be an ag teacher and the other two are undecided at this time, but the class will be beneficial to them.”

Denson said the course works hand-in-hand with Moran’s agriculture practicum class, which gives students the opportunity to teach younger students.

“They compliment each other,” he said. “My daughter (Minnie Denson) is teaching the practicum, and we work together pretty well.”

Denson has been a part of similar programs before coming to Moran.

“I taught it before with Northeast Texas Community College, so I knew it was do-able,” he said. “I just didn’t know everybody here to have some contacts.”

Denson said Brandi Terry, Cisco College’s Agriculture and Business Division chair, provided the needed assistance.

“Brandi stepped in and started helping,” he said. “As soon as that happened, it fell together.”

Constitution Week

Moran students will learn about the foundation of the United States during Constitution Week, starting with an assembly Friday morning.

“All the students will gather around the flag pole and read the preamble together,” Moran principal Jo Hise said.

Hise said members of the Daughters of the American Revolution organization will take part in the program on Monday.

“These ladies are going to come over and work with the fifth grade students with a reader’s theater on the creation of the Constitution,” she said. “They’ll each portray a different state and how those states came together to put together the Constitution.”

Three-Week Reports

Moran will issue three-week reports this week to gauge students’ progress during the first grading period of the new school year.

“This is a short six weeks that ends Sept. 24,” she said. 

Faculty members will then follow up with students’ parents, Hise said.

“Sept. 27 is a teacher work day,” she said. “The teachers will call parents and make both positive contact and contact on areas where students need to improve.”