Welcome to episode 3 of The Pride lands podcast. Today's guest is secondary principal Felicia Gibson and secondary guidance counselor. Jean Harris on today's episode. We will celebrate the life of one of our own private numbers coach Tyson language. We will go over how to feel and how to cope who can help and then everything else from Kennedy is D from elementary to high school and everything in between. We are lions leopards and cubs here us roll on January 26 2020 coach Tyson Lambic passed away in his sleep. It was 36 years old who graduated college from tlu with a bachelor of art career in 2007. He started his teaching career. 2017 at Kennedy is D. He had been a teacher and a coach at Kennedy iced tea for three years. And in those three years touched many students and staff members lives. He will be remembered as a quiet leader with an interesting personality with the passion for movies music history and books coach Tyson lamb back born November 15th, 1983 died, January 26 2012. If everything coaching, I'm back next. I'd like to introduce secondary principal Felicia Gibson. Hello there secondary. Counselor Janine Harris. Good morning. Everyone. Are you guys today? Great. Awesome. I know it's been a tough week. Kennedy is D. This is your first year as a principal. But I mean, we're all going through this together and that's the key word is together students staff and Community as well as his family any words you'd like to say on Coach lamb back before we get started. Well, he was a great teacher like this is my first year meeting him and he is very quiet. He was a very quiet soul, but the kids loved him and I know that they truly Are going to miss him. I know I've worked with him for three years and one of the things I noticed about him just visiting he has a real quick. It has a real quirky sense of humor come to dry. And then I'd look at him and then he kind of he'd be straight-faced and then he just kind of break a little smile like a little smirk on his face. And that's one of the things talking to the kids this week that cut that they said when he was their coach coaching with them there would always be a very quiet way he would just with them but he'd always get him to laugh. Laughs and so that was one of the many things the kids loved about him was his humor and they always were able to talk with him and share with them especially like when they were on the road trips and stuff like that. Yeah. So yeah, I got a lot from community members. I knew he was a quiet guy as I yeah, he was but once you got them talking and you got him in his comfort zone and he is humor was it was very Unique it was a very funny guy. Like one of the the things that I guess wanted the first reasons we even started like talking and hanging out. This is way before I started doing what I do with the coaches and athletic department, but they were here one Saturday morning, and he I guess they were watching film after a game. This was in 2017 and I started talking to one of my other coach buddies about a movie that I had seen the Friday before and he chimed in Come on, sincerely like his ear went up. He turned around and he's like you saw that movie. I was like, yeah sure did and he asked me what I thought about it and I started like going into the detail about him. Like he was picking up everything I was saying about like the intricacies of the director and then he started talking to me about the director himself and I kind of got confused for a second. I was like, I didn't know about this like let me I'm the only nerd here. What are you doing? And then he told me that he got a his major was film and And he yeah, so cool from that point on like every time I saw I still didn't talk to him that much after that but every few weeks or months when I did see him I did you see that movie. He's like, yeah, I'm gonna watch it this weekend and it was it was interesting because as we started talking more he would basically break down every single movie way more than I could ever like. He just he was a film buff and like that that we talked about movies and music and TV he hated reality TV, but the TV shows that he did watch like he broke him down. So he was a it was very interesting to talk to especially on that matter because you know, there's not many people who really break down movies like that and just so yeah that that was and then this year when we started coaching together, or I was with the coaches, you know, it's just we afford it down very much and we bonded a lot him in the coaches and he appreciated. Single one of them and every single one of the staff members and especially Coach Alvarez. So it was it was very hard. It was hard to we got as it sounds I one of the things I've noticed that a lot of our young coaches. They resemble each other a lot of them look like bladders and even this week some of the kids would turn around and they said they would say I thought that that was mr. Lamb back, you know, because the young men all they had the reddish color hair and yeah, they look like brothers and they treat each other like brothers the guys did on the on the coaching team. I made a joke with Coach Alvarez when they introduced the coaches over the summer. I was like, did he put out an ad in the paper? 5/8 white male middle-aged reddish beard and my because yeah, they did all the clangor that's pretty funny. So yes, Sunday Sunday was a hard day for many reasons me and my son were watching the Pro Bowl and we got them the news that Kobe Bryant passed away. I instantly thought it was ridiculous fake news and somebody was just leaking some inaccurate sources and then sure enough throughout the day that we started seeing more and mr. Brewer ask me like, you know, why why it impacted so many people and you know part of the reason why in the the intro song that I played was in dedication to him and Coach lamb back is is that these people like like Kobe Kobe was on a global scale Global icon. He was a hero. Off to a lot of people, you know, he had a he had some issues in his young career but he over groom and turned into a pretty good human being and he I hated I hated Kobe Bryant so much and then when he retired I realized like I really didn't hate him as much as I thought I respected him. He retired and I saw my childhood just going away because you know, I watched him almost every single day. For almost 20 years and it was it was very shocking to hear but the most shocking part about that part was, you know fact that his his daughter died with him. And as a father that was just horrible and I know coach land back had a son trajan who goes to school here also, and it's just it's hard it that that was the hardest part about it is I will mean my wife were really just overwhelmed with the Kobe thing and his ER and and then I get the text that night about Coach lamb back and it it really I've never felt so I don't even know the words to describe it but it was almost unreal. Like I just talked to land back Thursday and my wife had just talked to him back Friday afternoon and my husband had just got a text from him about practice for Monday. Yeah. It's like 1:30, and he was fine and It was like 10 o'clock when I got the call from dr. Barrera and like what? Yeah, it was just it was a shock actually didn't even read the text because I was like watching the news about Kobe and I was like in tears and my wife was in tears and I saw that coats of them back wasn't the first couple lines of my texts and I was like, well, maybe he called in a resigned or something. I don't know. It had to be an important if Miss Brewer was texting at 10:30 at night, but but I didn't know the severity of it until like after it was done watching the Covey stuff and I looked at it. I was like Wow and then instantly my wife started crying and I couldn't hold it in either in my son heard my wife crying and she he walks in the room because he thought there was something going on. Well, yeah there was and we had to like tell them right there on the spot and he he took it pretty hard so that you know that leads me to the reason why we're having this podcast like how worry kids I mean you guys are in the front line, right? How are they reacting right now? And how should they react I mean right and wrong with that and it can I just take a minute just to look like a crisis intervention and how that goes on. I just think it's really important because I think a lot of times when when things happen in school Community doesn't know how to how to staff members set things in place to help kids and I'm in the same place you were at 10:30 at night. Mrs. Gibson's calling me because being the counselor being on that crisis team she want to know what you know, what do we do? What is our input? Put the sad thing is is and I say in retrospect sad thing is I know what to do because we've had other crisis that we've had to put in place and so, you know, the first thing is making sure that we bring in a team of counselors and we've been blessed with the Camino Real and so mrs. Gibson and I and mr. Rosetta, you know, we all you everybody was was making plans for the next morning so that we could be ready for the students when they came in. Knowing that most of them had already heard being ready to set up the library having that set up with you know, things like crayons and books and and and people and food and snacks and Kleenex people don't think about that. You know, those are all important things to have in place. You don't look like you're you're just grabbing things at the last minute. So calling the the front office staff and having them all, you know, get ready and then getting Miss Gibson in this Barrera to get Camino Real there and getting their team they There ASAP. I mean Doris over there the director of counseling and Brandon and Susan McCarty and Marty saw the ladies have backed us up so many times and there are Community Support which gives me time as a counselor to go into classrooms. If I'm in the library during the day working with the kids there than its doesn't allow somebody to be in there with the teachers and the students as they need them. So we had all that in place and of course having a script, you know, you kids at this six. 12th grade you don't know who's been impacted by death. I mean you don't and you don't know if they've ever had somebody in their family or close to them. I mean, they've been impacted by TV and all that but personal so having that Auditorium ready and everybody in their first thing it kind of brought us all together to where everybody's here in the same thing. Yeah, you know and letting them know. Hey, we have a place for you to be safe at your everybody going to feel feelings. You know, you got to take care of you if you have to get a drink water. If you got to get something to eat, those are really super important things that we forget even as adults when we're grieving. And so I think just knowing that the kids knew they had a place to go. They also knew that they could be with their peers and for kids that are teenagers what I saw the most like when I walked in and out of the classrooms, the older kids didn't want to leave the classroom. They wanted to be with their teacher. They wanted to be with their peers and grieve together and cry and hug and you know be responsive to each other and then the youngsters I really didn't understand a lot of the process wanted to go into the library with their whole group of friends and have adults to hug on and to love on him there. So but Monday was it was really I mean it was really hard but it was also it was it was showing I think the connectivity of everybody here in the community. I think they saw that I mean, we got a lot of calls from parents. Yeah asking about their child, you know, so you know that whole process. Cess of having kids feel safe. Yeah, you know, so you have a seventh grader in Kennedy is D. Both of our boys played for Coach lamb back there game was last Thursday a matter of fact, it was I know how it was for my son and you have to get too detailed into it. But you know, what was it like in the Gibson household? You know what I remember because Ethan was She still up and my husband had told him the news we got and and you could see like some Tears like he wanted to show some emotion and definitely the day we met Monday in the auditorium. I mean, he broke down I'm here, you know, you never really talked a lot about Coach lamb back. But you know after that happened it was he was you know, that's when he shared all his feelings and thoughts and I remember when you know, You know on certain games and stuff. So it's hard to see him like that. You know, I hate seeing him crying hurt. But you know, he needed to get it out. Yeah, this was I mean this this isn't a lesson for everybody not just the students but I mean they were introduced to something that is very hard in that, you know that is life, you know and death in that a lot of us. It's human nature that we take people for granted. And I wish you know me as a leader like a kind of reflect on this and it makes me as a leader want to get to know my teachers my staff my students even more because I felt like the things I hear from other teachers the memories they have with him. I didn't get to experience that. Yeah, and I kind of wish I would have got to know him more than what I did. So I think for me just you know that something I want to make sure I do this year and even in the futures Where I really get to know my people. Yeah. So this this has to be hard on many levels me for me just and just assuming because he was your son's basketball coach and teacher. He was your husband's colleague and he was your employee. So as a first year principal, I mean that's got to be that's got to be tough because I've never experienced. I mean, I experienced, you know, my first death when my father died a little over a year ago. And I mean that was bad but then to have it like on campus. Yeah, you know in my 13 years of education. I've never been at a school where a staff member passed away. Well and you're the you're the one that everyone's going to France or so. It was it was very helpful when like I called Miss Harris and was like, okay, what what do we do when you know, what's the next steps because I've never you know had to experience anything like that. And thankfully she knew exactly what to do. Mr. Words Echo. to some trainings that we had so they all came together and put this great plan together and it's just yeah helped out a lot. That's a that's a funny statement. Like what do we do like their scripts in place? They you know, this is how we handle the crisis situation. But even at the like those scripts don't help all the way. Like, how do we feel like how how our students supposed to fill and that's what they've been coming in. They mean kids kids were coming in because they didn't want to be in coach lamb books and then other kids were coming in. They wanted to be in Lambic coach lambics room the whole day because I want to be close to him. And one of the things is I mean I've had to deal with grief as not only counselor but a personal level to you know, I've lost my mother and father-in-law and my dad for years ago. So yeah loss and that's part of one of the things I always ask the kiddos when they come in and my first question is have you ever lost anybody before that? You know because that right there in itself oftentimes brings back memories for them of how they dealt with it, you know if they were little or how old they are, but I'm not I let him know it we're all grieving and it's not something that just goes away. It's a process and there's a new normal because the new normal is we don't have Coach lamb back here anymore. And we will never have Coach Lambic. So bring you know, they talk about their memories and I said, when's your last memory of Coach lamb back, you know, when's the last time you spoke with him? What's the last time you saw him? One of the tools Gunner was that a lot of kids wanted to write letters and that is so therapeutic and I mean they would write how they felt and I You know, one of the things we can do is we can look through these and put them in a folder and send them later on to the mall it to his wife, you know, and to the little boy that they can see how much love they had. You know, Lambic had for them and how much they loved him. But I'm grief is a new normal. There's no absolutes kids somewhere feeling like they were hit in the chest. They had a hard time breathing anxiety. Some didn't want to eat some wanted to just eat all day. I mean everybody's process is different and and it's going to be concerned. It's going to be constant. It's going to be something that is going to be now. It's going to be next week. It's going to be in three months. And so one of the things that I want to do is like a kind of a touch base where I continue to just kind of touch base with in classrooms. And you know, how you doing. Do y'all need some supports some may take it really hard to where they need additional counseling. Yeah, you know, but like you said death is inevitable and and I always like if I get the Ones coming in that have not really ever even acknowledged it. They need Mom and Dad involved. They need parent, you know to help and support them. Lots of crying. Let's Kleenex and I don't the boys were and I go to the boys because some of the boys that are athletes the older athletes really had a hard time knowing how to express themselves because they're there they're there on the football team, you know, their their buddies, right? And so some of my leaders were crying. And I shared that at how important that was for them to support their other peers with tears if that was me and lie, and that was deep. That was what they are body needed and it is okay to cry we have to cry, you know, when we're feeling sad we don't hold it in because it becomes e Ray. You're angry. Yeah, you know, I don't think it I mean as a former teenage boy, I don't think that it's so much that there. They're trying to hold it in. I just think that I mean chemically we're different exactly and we I honestly I remember I had a few death and in my life when I was in Middle School in high school and one of them was a student and relative of mine and I could took me a long time to cry right and I think it's just you know, how were set up in it's okay. Like I know my son. He had had his moments and but for the most part he was pretty I mean, I just eventually I think that the boys become men in that whole Primal Instinct where you know, they are the leaders of their pack or whatever. It may be starts to kick in and so it's confusing like they really don't know like it's not that they're trying to hold back tears. It's just their bodies just not producing them yet. And I think a lot of the kids who maybe haven't felt the reality this yet. Sell it Saturday when they do go to the yes the funeral and and I love that that you know, because Yard-Man I'm not so but truly that I'm not going to name. My can't I can't say that but one of the young men he had I had to give him permission. He knew he needed me to say it's okay honey for you to cry and it's like oh, you know, it's like he like you said, you know, we're not sure he had to have that permission and one of the things he also didn't recognize and I'm sharing about the mail because I said, how about writing a letter? And he was like I can do that. I'm like, oh gosh. Yes, please do that, right everything you're feeling down into that letter and get some of those feelings out and in like I said, like I said, I'm no psychologist. You can record that like I really do believe this is from personal experience. Also, as I don't think that that it, you know, when these boys are even young girls shed tears and cry don't think it's just that incident. I don't think it's just Coach lamb back, you know, I think that at that point it's like a damn something cracks the dam and then that everything like everything from their personal life just comes all out at once and it's good. I mean, it's good for them to get it all out. But I mean, how how have you been dealing with with students Miss Gibson? Well, I mean really the kids have responded pretty well with with this news. Yes of what happened, you know, there are still some that That take it pretty hard and you know, it's just talking to them and letting them know. Hey, we're here for you. You know, you need to come talk to someone during class let your teacher know and I'll talk to you Miss Harris will talk to you. So beat in the hallways being present, you know hugging on kids. I love hugging on kids. I'm always doing that and just even now like today I went into some classes and just checking on kids, you know, how you doing kids being kind to each other? It's amazing. That's one of the things I'd said we talked about it. Monday morning and being kind each other just giving each other, you know, those positives how easy it is to you know, wrassle and harass and I'm amazed. I mean they really are I mean kids just have been so kind and so loving to each other which yeah, it's sometimes a crisis does that you know makes us realize you know, what we really are important each other, you know? Yeah, and I think that that mean there was going to be a different mindset. Regardless Monday because of the death of Kobe Bryant now may not have affected any kids like from seventh grade down as much as it did high school students in adults my age. It's just the the crisis the mindset was going to be different regardless Monday morning because Global icon passed away in the younger kids at 6th and 7th grade and L even elementary kids were. To know what they were going to see like I remember Mina I checked it one of the coaches like at five o'clock in the afternoon and I was like dude. I've never bald at a celebrity death ever my whole entire life until today in this gentleman was like, yeah, me too. I am losing right now because that I knew that was his is Idle. Yeah, he growing up. He said like he adored Kobe Bryant and I just it was it was it was going to affect household no matter what my daughter saw her dad shedding tears over this man on TV and like it was it was confusing for her confusing for me, but like regardless it was still we were going to have some students affected by the death of Kobe Bryant and then we had one of our own Pride members pass away that night. So it was it was a real Series of Unfortunate Events, and it was just a double whammy and it opened up. A lot of a lot of emotions feelings and and I like that because some of the kids even came in they started talking about like when I had a dog issue they lost their dog over the weekend. So I mean, you know, I mean, you're right. It's like Stacks that yeah and the and how do you deal with that? And I course they were I think they were surprised when I said, yeah, that's that's a big loss that I mean, that's like your your child. Yeah. I saw that yeah and again and I think being sensitive and I mean like even the coaches I mean, I went up to the coaches, you know, they take care of kids all day long and and they know how to eat and You know keep themselves nourished and hydrated all that and I went up to him and said guys, you know girls guys. I call it you dumb Yankees. Sorry, but I think it's a nice but you know, you guys need to drink some water. You need to take a break. If you need me. You know me or Gibson or words that you're somebody come in and give you a break out of your class. Then you need us to do that. And you know, their response was I just want to be with kids today and I mean that just went right to the heart because that's what they do, you know, and so yeah, I haven't dealt because I've had been you know Sometimes we have to be in that go mode, you know taking care of kids this week. And I know that Saturday get prepared for that because a lot of people going to be there. Yeah yesterday. Miss dr. Brewer has been in touch with Tyson's mother and I think it was Monday or Tuesday. I don't remember she went up there and talked to them and she basically was saying like Tyson has never been happier in his life. Then he has, you know coming being able to work at the school with kids and work at the school his kid. Stu it's great. And so he really considered Kennedy iced tea as part of his family. And I'm sure that your husband coach Gibson has mentioned that before and even even in that. This is human nature. He would even text the coaches, you know, how much he cared about us and how much he appreciated everything like this year. Especially he was like, it's There's just a different energy in the room. He enjoyed coming to work. He enjoyed just a lot of of especially like the coaching the coaching staff and we I personally took that for granted because if human nature and you know, we got a million other things going on and I think coach lamb back was just one of those guys that it would 0 to 60 really quick as far as emotions go and I know when I read these texts now is like, yeah he Is feeling in that moment and you know, a lot of us have been too busy with their lives and what we would reply like a menu. No problem, you know, we appreciate you but we just now in hindsight. It's like we look back at those and I'm like, wow, you know, he really really enjoyed working here. He considered Kennedy is D part of his family and his mom has mentioned that and I do believe the he the family will be buried. in him and I Canna t-shirt and which which is yeah, it's that's hard and very deep he He will be missed by many many people very loving me over Jerry kind who I mean we talked about how students feel and how they're reacting besides. You know, I know we had Camino Real here on Tuesday or Monday who else can they seek if they need help or assistance or any other ways that they can cope for the remainder of the school year. There I mean ongoing like I said ongoing counseling therapy type thing would be through committee realm is also Floresville. There's a bereavement Center. Okay in Florence felt that came about during the Sutherland Springs deaths through the church steps that came about through Floresville. They have a San Antonio variants but through and I apologize I Paloma I guess it's called a Paloma. Yeah Paloma place in Floresville course, I can always come, you know come to my office. That's definitely and of course over at the elementary is Priscilla Torres, but counseling wise our main our main facility is the Camino Real my time. Okay. Yeah, we're scarce in this area for resources, which is sad and connections is another thing is just very I know that's it's a nation. Yeah now we're yeah it is. Yeah, it's definitely but I'm just saying the smaller Area Community to see Antonio has a lot but to be right here local connections is also a facility coming out of car and city that also has support for students as well. Awesome. There's Gibson before we move on is like you being the leader. Is there anything else you like that you want to tell the kids and the parents that they may not know as far as what they can do or how they should feel you or just any words in regards to this. No, I tragedy I mean I just There's always going to be sadness there for a while, especially those that were that were close to him. And it's normal. It's normal for kids. Just even at home, you know, they may be watching something on TV and something triggers a thought or memory. And yeah, they may start crying or asking questions and it's normal. It's okay. Yep. So coach Tyson lamb back. His funeral services will be this Saturday the viewing. I believe it's going to be from 1 to 3 at the finch Funeral Chapel and Stockdale, Texas and then the funeral think it starts at 3 p.m. Kennedy is D athletic boys. I'm not sure if that little girls also, but he opened it to them as well. Okay, they will be taking a bus out there. So parents if you can't make it and your your kids are requesting to go they will be supervised by He is D staff want to say that it's dr. Were asked that we wear, you know, something maroon and tribute he was you know, he was like I said earlier a quiet leader and he impacted a lot of kids lives. So we expect to see the a lot of emotions and a lot of students out there celebrating his life. So like I said this Saturday 3 p.m. Finch Funeral Chapel and Stockdale, Texas And then also in lieu of flowers the family asked that if anybody wants to contribute like instead of buying flowers few through the funeral home, they ask that you donate to the Education Foundation and you can do that by going on Facebook and searching Kennedy ISD Education Foundation, and there's a link that they have on their first post that allows you to donate if you wish to honor coach lamb back and this was a request from his mother. And it's because of how much he considered Kennedy iced tea is his family. So that's great. And so moving forward. I think we're going to have a few tributes to him this week. And one of them is the blue ballon really balloon release. We're doing that today at 3:30 and we had some people help blow up some balloons and we're going to have pastor Matt Singleton come and do a prayer. But 330 we're going to have all the kids go out on the football field have a prayer and do a nice balloon release. Awesome in that Nina lead me to my next topic. You know, I hate you know, we have to we can only talk about Coach lamb back for so long, but we are celebrating something today the hundredth day of school. I think I have some And think those look up that's not it. I thought I had a special effect, but we'll get it next time jam on. Yeah. So today's a hundredth day of school. So what do you guys got going on in the hundredth day of school? Well, thanks to miss the ray. She actually she stopped me in the hall last week. It was like hey, can we do something for the hundred day of school? And I'm like sure so she put together a rotation for kids teachers all came together with some kids we have Like the junior class sponsor doing something freshman class and it's just different activities. We're starting at 1 o'clock until about 3:00 and kids are just going to have fun and you know be out the classroom and just relax a little I know Elementary's doing something else. I think they were allowed to wear under day apparel or something something fun. I have to get with Miss V a trick on that. But yeah that that says a lot, you know we There's a lot that goes art. Yeah people work hard and it does a hundred days a lot a hundred days in a school district is not the same as a hundred days out in the real world. There's a lot of personalities here. So I mean Round of Applause for everybody for a hundred days. See there's the sound effect. That's fun. Awesome. So what else do we got going on this week that you can think of on top of your head? I know you send out a very For you know, it's very nice to work with administrators that are tech savvy. I can't I really you know, that that is amazing and it's not a knock to to anybody's nice just it's so much easier to communicate with your staff and with the entire campus when you know, you know how to put a Google Calendar together and put a gender for the week together and do a bunch of stuff. So congratulations, but yes that thank you technology. Yeah. Thank you every week from Troy a lot. Treat me like a first grader and tell me this is a then go to be then go to see and I'll write it down and then I'll remember how to do it on the internet. We call that L I5 or something. I think it's explained it to me like I'm five. Yeah. Oh I look at you know, that's what I teach my kids. I love and like everything like you IL film the editing anything you do. Like if you're making a store you have to you have to explain it to people in the easiest terms. If not, you know your artistic. Visions just going to go over a lot of people. So yeah, we you've come a long way from it's not afraid of it. It's just that my brain doesn't think that way and I think a lot of people just assume they can't so they won't and they're really stubborn about not wanting to learn because oh it's something that I'm just not going to get. Yeah you were but yes, once again awesome. Thank you for your weekly agendas do it. Those do not go unnoticed you glad Coach Alvarez. Now principal via trick or sending US Weekly agenda record. I want to say I I got Alvarez doing that you would change things so often and I'm like so my agenda would be wrong because because there was a game that was you know changed maybe it was not at home. It's now a way and I said if you were to do a weekly agenda, yeah happened T and then and then that turns around and I can grab that information and then I shoot it out to the public. So and then people appreciate I get, you know, speak with Like when I came on for this job and the teachers communication was a big thing. Yeah for them. And so and it's a work in progress. But I mean it really is changing right before my eyes, you know as a tech and I we originally got hired Kennedy is d as a technician and my previous positions. I was at startup internet start-up. So the internet was the way of life like everything we do we're doing now and we were doing at the tech company, but it was like Meeting over there second nature in like when I got here I was like we had to go to like www.canadianoutback.com. And in it that I eat is d dot edu to log into our email and our email was just like this weird 1990s version of the attachment. So it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen and when I first got here I was like what I what year are we in my God? Coming from a tech startup to Kennedy is D at the time. It was kind of rough. Like I'm not gonna lie, like the tech was not not the tech. It was just our ability to use Tech wasn't there because our amazing Tech director like, you know, he knew about Google Apps he knew about everything that we weren't doing. He just also knew that it was going to you know, basically be an overhaul and we just needed to have people in place to help Implement that and slowly but surely we started A year later, we do Google Apps and a couple years later. We went to Chromebooks and it's just been a progress and kudos to our Tech director and kudos to the staff members who have embraced it. And and for you remember how you and I first started really working together. Remember just before testing I lost everything that I had in my word and he's like, why did you put it in Google? I was like because I have no idea what Google is and that's when Gunner there was a important detail you left out on that two days before that. I was training you and I showed You how to back everything up to Google Drive when you talk to a brain that's never even done even know what Google. Yeah. I sir. I assure had it back everything up the Google Drive a couple of days before and then yes you everything I am all know I have it. I know where it is to sell ya backing up is very important people everything every photo everything like there's plenty of services for that for that. Google photos is one of them on your phone iCloud always make sure you back up everything because you're never No, when you amen just for State Testing. So we got a KS. I didn't see any events coming up, but they have plenty of field trips in the near future. I believe so parents. Make sure you turn in those permission slips. Secondary besides the hundred Day celebration today. Usually we do this on Monday so that the listeners can you know, get the week in advance, but this was a little different week. So this is a special. God cast there is a game tomorrow. Yes game versus Porta, you know the coach for the boys team IPM the Lions basketball coach these Gibson, you know him very well. All right, he's doing a good job. They they won Tuesday night, right? Yeah Three Rivers so their District records now 5 and 2. Yes, I do. He takes those losses too hard eight. Losing as all coaches probably do. Yeah, I think it's that's just take that personal like like you're either into sports or not. Yeah, if you're into sports you hate losing. Yes, so it just the competitive nature. I know I've had to have several discussions with my son about his anger issues when the Spurs lose. Hmm, and I've known I know my wife had had have she's had conversations with me about that when this proposal is Apple doesn't fall off. Yeah. Yeah, it's a losing is not fun. So congratulations to the the Lions basketball team and the girls and the boys will play tomorrow starting at 5 here at the Kennedy. I study are Kennedy Secondary High School gym against Port Aransas. And this is a district. This is a district game. So there's a lot riding on it. So in the last game, I think our boys barely lost. Yes and wasn't it was close and I'm hoping they get this win. I mean a lot to them good luck leopards and lions tomorrow and they are also going to be doing a tribute to copyright and Coach lamb back to modify something. Nice. Yeah, it should be fun. So now we're going into achievement. That's what everybody comes as podcast for. You hear their name called out because of all the cool stuff they did. So, let me see if I can get some. No, I can't Mark laughing this like regardless of what you think like I'm poised and I'm snatch. I really this is like brand new to me. So I usually have sound effects in here and I can't figure out how to get to him yet. So that would be the next episode episode for sound effects. Yeah, we'll be waiting for him. So it's cheve mints for this week. We have our KAS Leo Lyons week 12 winners. Yep, Leo Lyons was a program implemented by I mean Miss recently retired Joyce homier and every Friday they pick and it's down a student that's gone above and beyond good character just really have to get with their there how they decipher how they figure out who gets a little ants because it would be interesting to know so parents knowing the future is I hate you know, this is how you get becomes really aligned but every Friday that gets elected and they get to wear a lions are leopards Jersey around so everybody knows that they are aligned So this week Leo Lyons our last week week 12 Kinder. Audrianna Rodriguez first grade Kinley Rao second grade Elijah tourist. Third Aubrey Villanueva fourth grade Ava Hill and fifth grade Stevens a Moroso Round of Applause for those guys. Yay lions. And then last Friday, we had the secondary on a row and perfect attendance celebration pictures will be posted. I believe it's scheduled for today. So congratulations. Do you know who won the $100 gift cards of top of your head? No, I don't but those are hundred dollars an hour right thanks to PTO amazing. They donate those think upto that's a Kennedy Middle School ptra. Yes. Yeah. I just got to say it is fun to see the high school kids participate, you know, I've been middle. for the last seven years and so high school never had a be attendance Auditorium experience like that and I'm going to tell you they like it just as much as middle school kids you know kids like to be recognized yeah and it's fun and we have had a ton of attendance good attendance and I mean it's just it's fun to see all of the they're working hard yes not only are we going to have their pictures posted the list is going to be published in the newspaper I think Nick's up next week so keep a lookout for that and the photos of the kids who got for a $100 gift cards will also mean a newspaper that's not that's not I mean $100 gift card slot where the gift cards to their the Visa ones the Visa so they can spend it wherever and then our wonderful principal and assistant principal donated some Sonic cards too oh yeah the random drawing so other kids got Sonic cards come on now and that's just for good grades and or For perfect attendance and you're showing up to school every day easiest thing to do just show up and you know what the interesting part of it. Is this those perfect attendance kids most of them were on the A and A B honor roll because if you're here, yeah, then you'll get instructions. Then your grades go up. So do they get their name get put in the hopper more time for A's, right? Well, they used to not I'm not sure if they just put in a witness that it's right. And then b gets a certain amount and then perfect attendance. Yes. Yeah, that would make sense. Like the more chance the more you more you succeed the more chances you have to win. So congratulations to our secondary honor own perfect attendance winners and recipient. We had some huge huge news over the weekend. Kennedy is uses blowing up and our students and our staff members are just make shaking the planet as coach over. Let's say For noticing we resonate like we got a audience first have first off. Congratulations to miss Karnes County Alejandra Hernandez. She was crowned queen this Saturday at The Rotary Club. Mrs. Carnes County pageant here at Kennedy is d That's not just Kennedy. She's competing with all the school districts in the county Runge falsity and Carson City. So congratulations. Regulations Alejandra Hernandez and congratulations to Little Miss can lie Rouse also Leo lion this week. Good job, Ken Lee uses cleaning up house. And then we had a big one that came out Tuesday or Wednesday. And that's our very own Coach Alvarez athletic director and head coach head football coach one my South Texas coach of the year. Yeah, that's coach good job. And that's competing it with. Oh, I don't even know how many different school that's not just the five in our County. That's like almost whole South Texas region with me. We was against the Fall City referral who just won State and he won he won in that was a votes from I believe other coaches. So congratulations, Coach Alvarez, he's saying blowing up again. And we're proud to have him here. That's for sure. Yeah, I had to get a special thing for my mic next time. I had them on the podcast. He's allowed guy. Yes, I gotta turn it down to like to but he doesn't need a microphone that that's the best way to say. It doesn't need a microphone. Congratulations to the KMS Cubs last Tuesday That's Thursday. They played Fall City. Seventh grade Tide Falls City and eighth grade 116 211. Good job. Miss Phillips, I think the games were cancelled this week. I don't know if they're going to be rescheduled but they continue the rest of their schedule next week. So we'll have a the date and times posted on our website and we'll discuss it in next week's podcast. Also graduations Cubs boys and girls. What are you cough a little girl cup just kopke bit. They're all cut their just Cubs that makes it so much easier. And then congratulations stated earlier to the KHS lions for their win over three hours 56 247. Good job Lions. Tell Gibson is you have an assistant? Well, it was dubya dubious softball has started. Oh, I need stats. Like I tell him that like I tell him hey, why don't you sit in that so I can announce it on the announcement just like few like two or three stats like who scored the most points he had the mostest. It's I agree. Nice work on that for next year. All right. Well get it to tell them get it to me after this game so I can announce it Monday and I don't need like five paragraphs just like imma make Jaden Choppers. Yeah. Listen to this goats Gibson happy wife. Happy life. Make sure you get those stats awesome. Good job boys, and then Saturday our Kennedy boys and lions and leopards powerlifting team competed in Edna. I thought I wrote that down but I guess I did not think it was Edna. Kennedy boys plays first individual results Reagan Villarreal fourth place Joseph Valdez third place Alvin almond or second place Jorge delos Santos third place Adrian floors second place in Joseph Luna first place. Good job boys first place as a team. I don't know what place two girls got as a team, but individual Miranda Blanca's I say well a house but leha's. Yeah third see this is why I have staff members chicken, you know that I should know that. Yeah, I talked about this last week. I am the worst with names. I was not born. I mean I was born in Texas, but I did not grow up in Texas. I grew up in Hawaii. Oh Arizona side. I have no I'm from Vermont. And you know, I just have to learn how to say them in Spanish. Oh, I guess I just need to step my game up. Her and umbilicus third Gray's graduate third place congratulations Miranda, ladies and gentlemen, and then we had a couple of our students really really making the community and our school district pal proud. Timothy Hawk is enlisted into the National Guard and Anthony Diaz into the United States Marine Corps. Whoo, why are they have worked so hard? I mean Timothy and Anthony are in our front office every other day. They You know just because there's so much they have do so much paperwork. I mean, there's so much to do and I'm going to tell you what I am. So proud of these boys. I'm so blessed to have had an opportunity to work with them this year because they are there stars for their senior class. I mean they are amazing young men. So they're going to make our America proud. Yes. I'm gonna make our cake is D proud for congratulations, boys. We truly appreciate it. Thank you. And then we had our you IL film results come in on Monday. We submitted five films this year three for animations in one documentary and we had three make it to the second round. So congratulations. Yes. We're going to try to have our Film Fest on February 20th. I need to get with you about that. Okay, and we want to invite some other schools corn City ready said that they would come submit their film to be screened here. And I think we're going to try to get Glee at I'll let you know more about that and let everyone else know more about the film festival soon. And then the KAS honor roll list. I've got a few days ago. Those will be published. Congratulations to all the ks on a road kids that will be in the newspaper also, and then I got the stock show results yesterday. So next week's broadcast. We'll talk about the stock show results. Maybe I'll have a Miss Bell stop by and go over some of those some but man Kennedy who in things we need to make that a hashtag ask you doing things making things happen. Good good job, man. Good job to all the students and staff. Parents and Community everybody is coming together and that's our tag line for the school district together. We Empower students. So good job everyone Round of Applause for everybody nice to be and last but not least. We have any shoutouts. You guys would like to give out. Yes. I have a few and these are just people that have gone above and beyond we've had some changes on campus with moving around. And teachers or you know teachers resigning and so we had to make some changes and so my first shout-out is for Ashley Martin. She had to take on some additional classes that she wasn't expecting but she took it and said hey, whatever y'all need me to do. I'm going to do it Miss Woods. Also she's helped take on some additional classes along with I mean, she helps with PTO. I mean you name it. Miss Woods does it and she doesn't complain so I appreciate that mr. A Thank you for putting together the hundred Day celebration. She spends a lot of time at a short notice doing that. So thank you for that. Mr. Stewart. Just because he's always concerned with kids. He's in my office almost every day. He wants to make sure kids are getting exactly what they need. And I truly truly appreciate that because he is it is student centered with him. And I love that also to all the pears, you know, they don't get paid enough for what they do and they work hard. So I I do appreciate that. They love working with kids and you know, they're they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. And then last but not least. I always say coaches don't ever get enough recognition. Yes, they get a stipend but trust me it is not worth the hours that they put in in the morning there there after school on weekends and I just appreciate what all of you guys do and girls do for our athletes. So Thank you. Because if you didn't do it who would exactly can I do a quick shout-out sure. I just thank you Miss Gibson appreciate that and that's one of my shadows. I'm we're just so blessed this year to have administrative Lee our team. Mrs. Gibson is just taking taking our team to a new level and coachup Coach. Mr. War Sokka as assistant principal. I've just overly been blessed to work with them super intelligent organized fun caring people and they love kids and that's so important and then I am blessed. Thank you to the district for hiring our new CCM our young lady Miss Christina working with our College and Career Readiness and Military think she's amazing. She is my tag team partner and I'm just thankful for her. So thank you so much. Awesome. Congratulations and good job. I'm not from I'm from Hawaii. I'm a transplant. I'm just kidding. How do you say your last name of Aqaba Reuben? I know I'm not saying it, right? Yeah, it's Christina. Where's Christina? We're going to call Miss Christine. That's what she asked the kids to scholar tonight. I know all my family members were listening to us if shaking their head and embarrassment after we're says it very nice. She said a lot of things very nice and like, how about yeah, so good job everybody. I'd like I'm speaking on behalf of K. Yes those teachers also. They need a shot out. They have gone through all types of construction this year and and they have just gone above and beyond to make stuff happen. They've moved hallways two or three times. They've moved dropped off procedures and pick up procedures two or three times. They had one hallway that was finished and then the pipe bust and they had like three feet of water in there. So good job KAS for you know, just keeping everything afloat. And you guys keep to you know, stop. Oh that no pun intended. All right, so man, I can't take you guys enough how Be I am to be here at Kennedy iced tea with people like you guys. So I appreciate you guys taking your time today to come talk about a very serious topic and hopefully, you know together, you know, we will all get through this and pull forward. But you know, that's that's just attributed to what we are at. Kennedy is D We are family and I know you've been here longer than I have and your brand new but you know, it doesn't matter we still help each other out and come together. So I Appreciate all of you guys anybody out there in the listening. Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention you guys can now listen to this podcast on iTunes Google play Stitcher Spotify. It is all over the place in yeah in a few weeks. I think this week. I think it's going to be on iHeartRadio to so we're going to be blowing up man. So thank you everybody. Thank you all for making this podcast very successful so far with all the listings. The feedback that we're got we've gotten for it, and we're just going to keep getting better. We're going to keep rocking and rolling. So thank you Kennedy iced tea and Kennedy for everything. You guys do lions leopards and cubs. Remember who you are. This is gonna signing off. Thank you.
Episode 3 of the Pride Lands Podcast "Losing a Member of the Pride" - Coach Tyson Lambeck. Guests this week include Secondary Principal, Felicia Gibson, and Secondary Guidance Counselor, Geniene Harris. This episode is dedicated to Coach Lambeck and how he impacted students & staff at Kenedy ISD. Secondary administrators talk about how students react to the tragedy of losing a teacher and coach. They also explore the meaning of family at Kenedy ISD. Mrs. Harris discusses how the community came together to support the students and staff. Kenedy administration is most grateful for the help and support of Camino Real and The First Baptist Church of Kenedy. The discussion also ties into the tragedy that the world experienced on the same day with the passing of a global icon, Kobe Bryant. In other KISD news...  - The 100th day of School - Kenedy Lions basketball team beats Three Rivers - KES, week 12, Leo Lions - Powerlifting meet from Edna High School. (Boys First Place and Individual results) - Secondary & Elementary honor-roll and perfect attendance - KHS Students join the military - KMS Cubs basketball from Falls City - Kenedy ISD Jr. Alejandra Hernandez crowned Miss Karnes County Queen - Kenedy ISD AD - wins the "Coach of The Year" award - UIL Film round 1 results. - Kenedy Secondary and Elementary staff SHOUT-OUTS! (Listen to see who they are?!) 