On a beautifully sunny Saturday, Oct. 10, the Turner community came together once again to celebrate Turner Days with a parade and day-long festivities. Parade marchers braved the hill north from the high school up to Metropolitan Avenue, with a downhill coast from there to Inland Drive.
What Turner Elementary School teacher Lexcee Oddo thought would be a routine assembly to honor retiring Kansas Commissioner of Education Randy Watson turned into a life-changing moment when she learned she had won the prestigious Milken Educator Award, including a $25 thousand prize. The surprise announcement came during a schoolwide […]
Turner Days took place on Saturday, with the parade rolling two miles up and down the hills of 55th Street from the high school to Inland Drive, just before K-32. The event was the 40th annual celebration of the storied community, which retained its own distinct identity even as it […]
First-year Turner Elementary kindergarten teacher Maddy Shackelford suspected something was up. Principal Tara Hudson had called her out of class to give her a Teacher Appreciation Week T-shirt, but the principal was “acting a little weird.” The secret was revealed when she got back to her classroom to a big […]