Little Elm has grown exponentially in the last three decades from a population of a little over 3000 to over 35,000. Leaders in Little Elm needed vision and determination to prepare the infrastructure to sustain the growth. Thankfully, those in the LEISD were visionaries, planning...
In the spring of 2017, Little Elm ISD surveyed the community through Thoughtexchange and asked how the community would feel about expanding STEM to all elementary campuses. The response was overwhelmingly in favor of providing STEM education to every child. Currently, STEM, which stands for Science,...
It takes most musicians years to realize their dreams of publishing their music and hearing it performed, but Little Elm senior Harrison Collins has been seeing his dreams come true since eighth grade. Harrison discovered music in sixth grade when he joined the band, starting...
BY CECELIA JONES Little Elm ISD teachers and administrators always want to make sure every child learns. But when students themselves own that philosophy and use it to help their peers, it is powerful! Lakeview Elementary third-grader Patricia Cruz Escobar, a member of her school’s student council, is a...
BY CECELIA JONES PHOTO BY RICK VERGARA “The basics are here to have a really premiere campus that people talk about—a campus where people want their kids to be. I think we need to learn how to ‘toot our own horn’ a bit more, and to get...
BY CECELIA JONES On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, Little Elm ISD hosted a first-of-its-kind Teen Panel where teens answered questions from an audience of parents about their digital/online lives. The idea came from Common Sense Education, an online resource for “digital citizenship” that helps kids learn...