Lubbock

The Margaret Talkington School for Young Women Leaders

Magnet School Open House
1/29/2009

Wise Science Spectrum
12/15/2008

School Opens
8/19/2008

First Students, First Faculty
6/1/2008

130 girls have been admitted to the first all-girls school in Lubbock to open in August. Summer will be filled with orientation programs: leadership presentation, volunteering presentation, Engineering design project, School mascot election process, School uniform size fitting, Half-day community service projects and summer reading programs. Todd Whitaker, author of What Great Teachers Do Differently, will hold a workshop for the new faculty. The faculty will also have a strategic planning retreat and technology workshop.

100 of the 130 new students met for lunch and a "first photo."

LISD Reveals Who Will Lead Lubbock's First All Girls School
12/18/2007

Kim Perry will serve as the principal of the first all girls school in Lubbock. "We're getting young girls in 6th and 7th grade not only when they are learning about themselves but about different careers and colleges," says Perry. Read more...

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
9/14/2007

The district's board approved a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday with the Foundation for the Education of Young Women to open the single-sex school. The Dallas-based foundation will provide the district $1 million in seed money, allocating $250,000 each of the first four years the school is open. Read more...