Daisy Bates Elementary School - PCSSD

🎓 AVID Wednesday Spotlight: WICOR in Action! ✏️📚

The foundation of AVID techniques is the WICOR framework — Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading — and it was on full display at Sylvan Hills High School.

In Mrs. Bridges’ history class, students explored industrialization and its impact on countries worldwide. After reading about the topic in class, they dug deeper through research, organized their findings into visual models, collaborated on large‑scale posters, and used inquiry to understand how global events shaped the modern world.

👕 Don’t forget to wear your college or career shirt tomorrow and celebrate the strategies that help our scholars think critically and dream big.

Thank you, Pulaski County Youth Services & Central Arkansas Library System, for the after-school fun!

It is always an honor for the scholars and staff of Daisy Bates Elementary School to celebrate the life and legacy of Mrs. Daisy Gatson Bates, especially on a special day in Arkansas, Mrs. Daisy Gatson Bates Day!

We loved that many of you joined us in person and online to pay homage to our namesake.

Daisy Bates Day Celebration 2026

Serena Ashton! THE BEST SCHOOL COUNSELOR ON EARTH!!! 🎉💃🏽🐅🧡 We truly appreciate her passion, her energy, her drive, her advocacy and her love for our scholars and staff! She is one in a million and we are blessed to call her OUR OWN! We love you, Mrs. Ashton! Happy Counselor's Week!

All PCSSD schools and offices will be open and operating on a normal schedule for Tuesday, February 3. After-school activities are expected to resume, but please contact your individual school for confirmation. We know that some students may still be unable to safely travel to school. If your student will be absent, you should contact the school registrar or attendance clerk.

Our maintenance and transportation teams have worked diligently for several days removing snow and ice at our facilities, as well as assessing neighborhood routes for our buses. We have identified several bus routes that will be impacted due to lingering hazardous road conditions. A separate communication will be shared at approximately 6 p.m. for families on impacted bus routes. All other transportation routes will operate normally. Thank you for your incredible support and patience during this latest round of winter weather.

All PCSSD schools will be closed on Monday, February 2. Our maintenance crews have made great strides in clearing walkways and parking lots at our facilities, as well as monitoring travel on city and county roadways, and we appreciate their hard work. Due to continued concerns about hazardous road conditions, schools will remain closed. PCSSD Central Office staff and some district employees will return to work. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we make these difficult decisions. We plan to continue monitoring the weather and will provide future updates as needed.

All PCSSD schools and district offices will be closed on Friday, January 30, due to continued hazardous road and weather conditions. All events and activities are canceled or will be rescheduled. The increased temperatures and sunlight have helped to thaw roadways, and our maintenance crews continue to make progress clearing sidewalks and parking lots at our facilities. Even with these improvements, many of our students and employees would still face potentially dangerous travel conditions. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make these difficult decisions. We plan to continue monitoring the weather and will provide future updates as needed.

Cooking at home while the ice melts? You may have a sous chef to chip in. Many elementary students have participated in cooking activities as recently as last week, thanks to Apple Seeds, Inc.