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The Student News Site of McCallum High School

The Shield Online
The Student News Site of McCallum High School

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Austin ISD students and teachers will be switching to Google Classroom from Canvas (BLEND). The district said it will support BLEND in grades 3-5 through the end of this school year and in grades 6-12 through the 2026-2027 school year.

Amid budget challenges, district leaders plan transition from BLEND to Google Classroom

Mira Patel, design editor
December 21, 2024
Principal Andy Baxa speaks at a meeting with McCallum parents and an AISD police officer last year.

The steps for safety

Nate Williams, co-editor in chief
December 19, 2024
According to Education Week, since the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) started in 1995, US students scored below or at the lowest level at a higher percentage than ever before. Graphic by Mira Patel.

Multiplying success

Mira Patel, design editor
December 18, 2024
Incentive forms allow students to exempt a final of their choosing with a no-harm grade

Administration reverses plan to pause final exam incentives

Sofia Saucedo, social media specialist
December 6, 2024
This tree was ripped out of the front yard of a residential home in Asheville, N.C.

Twin hurricanes wreak havoc on East Coast

Adele Seeboth, staff reporter
November 25, 2024
Ridgetop Elementary School first-grader Sebastian Celio sits outside the George Washington Carver branch of the Austin Public Library where his mother cast her early vote in the 2024 Travis County election.

Voters approve Austin ISD’s Prop A

Priya Thoppil, news editor
November 18, 2024
For Margaret Dismukes Massad, the owner of Peter Pan Mini Golf and a McCallum graduate, the importance of Peter Pan Mini Golf goes beyond saving the business. As a child, some of her happiest memories are of observing her father, Glenn Dismukes, create the sculptures that still stand today at Peter Pan Mini-Golf in her backyard. “My favorite memories are just of my dad carving the figures,” Massad said. “We were the only kids with a dinosaur in the backyard.”

Keep Austin putting!

Elizabeth Nation, staff reporter
November 13, 2024
While parents and teachers formed a marching line with rainbow umbrellas to insulate students from the hateful messaging coming from the sidewalk, students wrote supportive messages with sidewalk chalk to express support for the same groups that the agitators were villifying.

Community responds to agitators’ return with show of support

Lillian Gray, staff reporter
November 6, 2024
Sixteen of the AP exams will be fully digital in 2025. These exams fall into the arts and humanities category, with exceptions being AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles and AP Environmental Science. Twelve will be hybrid exams—virtually all math or science—ranging from AP Calculus classes to AP Biology. For arts, language and music AP tests, the audio components of the tests will remain unchanged.

AP goes digital

Beatrix Lozach, staff reporter
October 26, 2024
Students fill hallways after the lunch bell rings. The hallways become crowded immediately once passing period begins.

Population rise impacts Mac

Harper Maxwell, staff reporter
October 23, 2024
The eldest members of the class of ‘25 will vote in their first presidential election on Nov. 5.

A new class of ballots

Nate Williams, co-editor in chief
October 22, 2024
The change in the auto admit threshold looms over potential Class of 2026 UT applicants who meet the current threshold (top 6%) but not the new one (top 5%).

UT to limit automatic admissions rate to Top 5%

Daniela Di-Capua, staff reporter
October 15, 2024
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