Angie Debo Elementary -

While the rest of us have been settling into our new classroom families, our✨K-Start cuties✨have been rotating between teachers and providing informal data to help our kindergarten teachers and our administrators make the most equitable and balanced classes they can! Our🐬kindergarten Dolphins🐬had their teacher reveal last night, and today they started their year with their official "team". We know how foundational early childhood education is, and we want all of our students to hit the ground running! K-Start has been an incredible tool for our Dolphins, and we know it's only as successful as it is because we've got🍎incredible teachers🍎behind it! ❤️💙💜💛

One last throwback before we start a✨new year✨! Today we want to wish all of our 🎓fifth-grade graduates🎓well as they soar into middle school! Remember,🐬once a Dolphin, always a Dolphin🐬, and for wherever you go and for whatever you do, we’ll be here cheering you on! Just 1️⃣ more sleep until we’re all together again; WE CAN’T WAIT!

Today's throwback goes out to the cutest, little (and big)🎓grads🎓we know! If you saw the TikTok trend we did at the end of last year, you can only imagine how💜precious💜it was to watch high school seniors collaborate with their pre-k counterparts in real life! Here's to a new year with new adventures for us all and to always remembering that🐬Angie Debo🐬will forever be a place to call home! Only 2️⃣ more sleeps until we're all together again; we can't wait!

Need a little Motivational Monday to get yourself ready for the upcoming school year?👀Look👀no further! We're channeling the🎉energy🎉that our whole building brought out for Special Olympics! Last year, our Special Olympians got to participate in events on our campus! ...so in addition to a🏆victory lap parade🏆, they got to show the whole school their grit, determination, and skill on and around our brand new walking track! The way our Dolphins💜love and support💜one another might just be the coolest thing about our building! Only 3️⃣ more sleeps until we're all together again; we can't wait!

No Sunday Scaries here as we throw it back to arguably the most sought after of student🏆prizes🏆, the widely coveted, Principal for a Day! Lexie, Lydia, Nellie, and Owen spent the day walking in the👞shoes👠of our favorite administrators, and it’s safe to say, they rocked it! 🙋‍♀️ Raise your hand🙋if your student wants to be Principal for a Day! Only 4️⃣ more sleeps until we’re all together again; we can’t wait!

Another day, another✨throwback✨! How about when our whole school surprised Mrs. Williams with a😴National Sleepover Day😴celebration! We love celebrating anything and everything at Angie Debo, so we hope you're ready to🎉celebrate the new school year🎉! Just 6️⃣ more sleeps until we're all together again; we can't wait!

Throwback number three goes out to our second semester✨Dynamic Dolphins✨! There's a long list of reasons to love🐬Angie Debo🐬, but at the very top of that list is the fact that we have the most incredible students! From generosity to leadership and everything in between, we've got no shortage of incredible, young humans in our building already finding ways to make a💜positive impact in their world💜. Just 7️⃣ more sleeps until we're all together again; we can't wait!

Our next throwback had to go to our incredible Special Education❤️Friendsgiving❤️! Not only was this the first year to have an all-out celebration in the cafeteria, but in true A.D. fashion, the invitation was extended to 👧 Belonging Buddies👦 for the first time! A true testament to our commitment to inclusion, these pictures are proof that 🐬everyone truly belongs at Angie Debo🐬and that inclusion is not only a best practice but a necessary and beneficial practice for all of our students! Just 8️⃣ more sleeps until we're together again; we can't wait!

Did you know that our administrators are headed back to school today for their first contract day of the🍎'25-'26 school year🍎?

With that in mind, we wanted to show Mrs. Williams a little bit of 💜love💜with a principal appreciation throwback!

Back in the spring,🐬our whole Dolphin family🐬, from faculty to students and their parents, spent a week showering Mrs. Williams with homemade cards and all of her favorite treats to thank her for all that she does for our school!

So let's wish her well in the👇comments below👇 as she gets ready to have us all back together again in just a couple of weeks!

Happy back-to-school, Mrs. Williams! We 🫶 you!

Here in Oklahoma, we know very well that sports can🧡divide❤️, but the⚡️Thunder⚡️has shown us that sports can also unite! Drop your📸playoff pics📸in the👇comments below👇, and make sure you've stocked up on Thunder gear for next year's dress-up days!

If you haven't already heard, Miss Bell became a Missus right after school was out, and she decided to kick off her wedding weekend with💍a special A.D. wedding ceremony and reception💍! No one loves bigger than our🐬Dolphin family🐬,and they showed up in a real big way and showered Miss Bell and her fiancé, Jacob, in love and, of course, 🎉confetti cannons🎉! Thanks to👏Mrs. Cunningham and Smiletime Photo Booth👏for documenting all of the fun! And👀peep👀all those little Dolphins✨dressed to the nines✨!

After a brief hiatus, WE'RE BACK! ...from our inaugural🇺🇸Washington D.C.🇺🇸field trip! Mrs. Beke and Ms. Hale were so excited to take our🐬recently graduated fifth-grade Dolphins along with some sixth-grade former Dolphins🐬on a trip to explore all things America! Students and adult chaperones visited: 🔴Mt. Vernon ⚪️Williamsburg 🔵Jamestown 🔴International Spy Museum ⚪️U.S. Capitol 🔵Korean War Memorial 🔴Lincoln Memorial ⚪️Vietnam Memorial 🔵Arlington National Cemetery 🔴Arlington House ⚪️Smithsonian National Museum of American History The🇺🇸rich historical fabric of our nation🇺🇸is enough to start anyone, even kids, on their own path of civic engagement! We know our A.D. family is the best around, so it was a🧠no-brainer🧠decision to facilitate some extra Dolphin time over the summer break! From traveling via the Will Rogers World Airport together to learning together to staying at the Great Wolf Lodge together and everything in between, we are so grateful to have had this experience! 🖐️Raise your hands🖐️if you're ready to go next summer! And if you went on the trip, drop your photos and👇comments down below👇!

School's (almost) out for☀️Summer☀️! While a lot of us are excited for our🐬last day of school🐬, we have one faculty member that might be a little more excited than the rest of us! 🎉Mrs. Via is celebrating her final last day of school tomorrow!🎉 To commemorate her time at Angie Debo and her dedication to the field of education, we thought we'd do a little "Journey with Jane: Mrs. Via through the Years"📷photo dump📷! Let's show Mrs. Via some love in the👇comments below👇and wish her a happy retirement!

Today's the day - our high school🎓seniors🎓are graduating! Last week, we were elated to host our former Dolphins for a little🎉graduation celebration🎉! Graduates shared some of their favorite elementary school memories, visited the library to see their class's fifth-grade ceiling tile, chatted with former teachers, and enjoyed a little recess time! 👏Congratulations, Class of 2025!👏Go out into the world and do great things! And remember,🐬once a Dolphin, always a Dolphin🐬! We'll always be right here cheering you on from afar!

This year's Teacher Appreciation Week was truly🪐out of this world🪐! In addition to some of the most sweet and sincere gifts from kids and families, the always-thoughtful Angie Debo PTO showed us💜ALL THE LOVE💜with a week of goodies including Sonic drinks, Poblano Grill lunch, room service treats, a breakfast buffet, a gift card goodie bag! But even better than all that, the week culminated with a poster of meaningful messages and✍️autographs✍️from our sweet classes! We love our🐬Dolphin🐬community! And we'd say the feeling is mutual based on how incredible last week was! Show your teachers some love in the👇comments👇below, and if you have any pictures, we'd love to see them!

Pinkies up, everyone! On Friday, our kindergarteners hosted a🫖Mother’s Day Tea🫖for the special ladies in their lives! From tea and treats to videos and questionnaires to handmade crafts,💜our Dolphin moms were showered in love💜! We hope you all spent some time making yesterday TEArrific for the moms (and all the people who hold a maternal significance) in your lives! Did you get a pic with your mom? Post it in the👇comments below👇!

Who doesn’t love a #tbt? Remember National Assistant (to the) Principal Day? Not only did our families contribute to a day full of❤️love and appreciation❤️for Mr. Goodrich, our faculty did too! We know Mr. Goodrich never misses a dress-up, and we’ve noticed he goes ALL OUT for🧦silly socks🧦! …So we thought a Scott Socks day would make for the most 🎉quintessentially Mr. Goodrich celebration🎉! If you want to see the full collection of Scott Socks, swing by his office where they’re now all on display!

☀️🗣️ Summer Enrichment Registration is now open! There are a variety of sessions/topics for your student to choose from. Sessions are four days a week in the month of June from 8:30am - 12:15pm. Students may attend one, two, three or all four sessions. Each session costs $125 for EPS students and $150 for out-of-district students (bring your friends)! Check out the links below to see the course offerings and to sign up. 👉 For more information and to see the full list of class offerings: edmondschools.net/summer 👉 To sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHXrCwcabF6oGKEMLWIG4rdHNEmK9ArT9t7faQ07EeuXAizA/viewform #ShineYourLight

Have you ever🤔wondered🤔how to write a book? Well, our Dolphins were visited by Oklahoma author, Tammi Sauer, and got to learn all about the ins and outs of publishing! Turns out it’s all about✍️writing✍️and lots and lots of REVISING! Mrs. Sauer not only shared some of her favorite📖stories📖, but she also did activities with each grade level to bring words on the page to life! Let’s give Mrs. Sauer some A.D. love in the👇comments below👇, and if you haven’t already checked out one of her books, you can of course catch them at the library but also at Best of Books (a recommendation from our very own award-winning author, Quinn)!

The hunt is on…the 🥚egg hunt🥚, that is! Our faculty and staff were treated to the Annual A.D. Egg Hunt this morning, and there was a lot on the line! With prizes ranging from candy to a trip to OnCue to late in and early out, there was no shortage of 😀happy faces😀 in our building this morning! It’s always a great day to be a🐬Dolphin🐬, but today it’s an egg-cellent day!