August 15, 2024
On August 5, as our DLSEC staff came together to begin the 2024-2025 school year, we took some time to reflect upon and celebrate our 2023-2024 school year. Amber Arceneaux cre...
May 22, 2024
Mrs. Welch's Elementary 3 students hosted a "Tour of Towns" for RISE students, staff, and guests to come and see their creations. Students worked in small groups to create a town...
May 13, 2024
Students in the RISE secondary classes were treated to an end-of-year outing at the Yoakum Grand Theater to enjoy seeing the movie MIGRATION complete with snacks for the show. Af...
May 12, 2024
Mrs. Hebert's class has been studying the plant life cycle this month. They took this opportunity to plant sunflowers, daisies and coneflowers. These plants had a couple of week...
May 9, 2024
Mrs. Welch's students took time this week to show extra appreciation to their teacher and their nurse, Bridget Hairell. This is a great time to show all of our educational staf...
May 7, 2024
RISE Junior High students in Mrs. Patek's class put their culinary skills to work making "thank-you" brownies to show their appreciation to the Yoakum High School PALS who have be...
May 7, 2024
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Yoakum High School PALS hosted the annual DLSEC prom. This year's theme was Safari Soirée and it was evident all throughout the St. Joe Family C...
April 11, 2024
On March 27, 2024, we held our 10th annual Easter egg hunt for the RISE elementary students. It's been quite a while since we were able to host our Easter egg hunt in the Yoakum ...
April 8, 2024
During the 88th legislative session, our Congress established a celebration of Texas fruits and vegetables to be held on the first Friday of April each year. This year, Nurse Sup...
April 8, 2024
The students in Mrs. Hanson's ECSE class have been enjoying learning about insects!
March 21, 2024
DLSEC multi-district high school students in Valerie Thiry's and Brad Roznovsky's classes put their culinary skills to work making peach cobblers to deliver for Texas Public Schoo...
January 30, 2024
Fidget Chicks is a group of folks from Granbury, Texas, who get together to make "fidget mats" for people who would benefit from them. Fidget mats are collections of engaging sen...
November 8, 2023
On October 31, 2023, DLSEC RISE students participated in a popular Halloween tradition--trick-or-treating! The DLSEC office provided the environment for door-to-door trick-or-tre...
November 2, 2023
Ms. Kyle's students and staff made a trip to the pumpkin patch in Cuero on a gorgeous fall day.
November 2, 2023
Check out all the pumpkin fun Mrs. Hanson's students and staff have been having!
November 1, 2023
The Yoakum High School PALS students joined the RISE Secondary students for the 2nd Annual Halloween Bingo Party! Students enjoyed Halloween treats while playing bingo for festiv...
November 1, 2023
Mrs. Welch's class had a fantastic time in October with hands-on learning and a community-based instruction trip to the corn maze.
October 24, 2023
DLSEC RISE multi-district students enjoyed an informative and exciting visit from the Yoakum Fire Department. The highlight of the visit was getting to explore the fire trucks an...
August 25, 2023
As we kick off the 2023-2024 school year, here is a look back at
some of the fun we had last year! (Special thanks to Amber Arceneaux for
compiling this video reflection for us...
August 6, 2023
Students and staff will notice some BIG changes in classrooms this year in the DLSEC RISE and GOALS programs. Thanks to generous financial support from the ...