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Canceled or community?

Canceled or community?

Wingspan Staff
March 10, 2023
A power outage caused by Thursdays storm impact the Frisco ISD network leading district officials to cancel school Friday.

Breaking News: no school Friday due to severe weather damage

Wingspan Staff
March 3, 2023
Hundreds of students on campus take part in the many fine arts courses offered at school and each week Wingspan profiles one such student in this weekly feature.

Artistic Expressions: volume 15

Wingspan Staff
February 23, 2023
Both campus and district athletic events are being postponed due to the winter storm in North Texas Monday.

Breaking News: athletic events postponed due to weather

Wingspan Staff
January 30, 2023
Cold temperatures and the possibility of freezing rain and/or snow led Frisco ISD to cancel all extracurricular activities Monday.

Breaking News: all extracurricular activities canceled Monday

Wingspan Staff
January 30, 2023
We have a saying in diving that if you have bad warm-ups, then you could be good and my warm-ups were awful. I did not get through half of the dives,” sophomore diver, Aubrey Henderson said. However things went differently for Henderson in the District 10-5A Diving Meet as the sophomore finished 2nd to advance to the regional meet Feb. 3.

Sophomore dives out of districts and into regionals

Wingspan Staff
January 21, 2023
Guest contributor Sankeertana Malakapalli giver her take on the new and changing grade policies.

[Photo] Constantly changing and confusing grade policies

December 8, 2022
Campus Connections takes a look at some of the newest staff members on campus.

Campus Connections: volume IX

Wingspan Staff
October 25, 2022
Early voting for the midterm elections begins Monday and is open until Nov. 4. With more than a dozen contests on the ballot, knowing when you are going to vote and where is important.

Early voting for midterm elections begins Monday

Wingspan Staff
October 24, 2022
Homecoming week kicked off Monday with spirit days, from Marvel Monday to class colors on Friday. The homecoming game is against Heritage on Friday and the dance is on Saturday.

[Photo] Homecoming week

September 13, 2022
Teachers were required to pack up and clean up their classrooms by the end of the year. This summer, the campus was refreshed and the floors and walls were redone.

School prepares for summer campus refresh

Wingspan Staff
May 19, 2022
Currently pictured: Art students display recent artwork in the fine arts hallway.

Artistic Expressions: volume 14

Wingspan Staff
May 17, 2022
Associate principal Stacey Whaling (right) has been named as the replacement for current principal Ashley Rainwater (left).

Breaking news: associate principal Stacey Whaling named new principal

Wingspan Staff
April 21, 2022
PALS has began a new project -- Painting with PALS. Every month, they will be hosting art sessions in order to further promote a friendly environment.

[Photo] PALS introduces monthly painting sessions

April 12, 2022
Junior Harley Classe is one of two candidates running for student council president. Voting starts Monday and ends Friday April 1st.

[Photo] Anna Lyon

March 21, 2022

STUCO presidential debate

Wingspan Staff
March 21, 2022
Frisco ISD announced on Monday that all schools and offices will be closed Tuesday due to the forecast calling for snow and ice.

Breaking News: Frisco ISD announces closure for Thursday

Wingspan Staff
February 23, 2022
Getting into the spirit of Valentines Day, Acapella Club will be performing for several students and teachers on campus by those who opted to surprise their loved ones. An entirely new tradition on campus, the club hopes to make it an annual ordeal.

Singing their heart out, just in time for Valentine’s Day

Wingspan Staff
February 14, 2022
Frisco ISD canceled school for four days, Tuesday to Friday, due to the winter weather. Friday will be made up with the bad weather day on April 28.

Breaking News: snow days of Feb. 3-4 will not be made up

Wingspan Staff
February 10, 2022
Frisco ISD announced on Monday that all schools and offices will be closed Tuesday due to the forecast calling for snow and ice.

Breaking News: Frisco ISD announces closures Thursday and Friday

Wingspan Staff
February 2, 2022
The band parking lot is left covered in several inches of snow in February 2021 after a winter storm rolled through Texas. Forecasters are calling for more winter weather Wednesday evening through Thursday. To help prepare families on the decision making process regarding whether there will be school, Frisco ISD email parents Tuesday afternoon.

Breaking News: Frisco ISD notifies parents of bad weather protocols

Wingspan Staff
February 1, 2022
A modern-day twist of Da Vincis the Mona Lisa, the tabby cat portrait sits in the art room.

Artistic Expressions: volume 13

Wingspan Staff
February 1, 2022
Frisco ISD is also suffering during the national labor shortage leading to longer lines for students to get lunch.

Breaking news: lunch labor shortage

Wingspan Staff
January 12, 2022
FISDs COVID site, in partnership with Nomi Health, have closed its doors after the contract with the city ended.

Breaking news: district to open exclusive COVID-19 testing location

Wingspan Staff
January 10, 2022
Standing in front of City Hall in New York City, former Redhawks soccer player Keaton Parks stands with NYC Major Bill de Blasio after receiving the key to the city in a ceremony on Dec. 14 to honor the MLS Cup champions: the NYCFC.

Former Redhawk wins MLS championship

Wingspan Staff
December 16, 2021
The opening of Panther Creek High School led to the readjusting of UIL districts. “With FISD schools in three different districts, this expands the opportunity for schools to make the playoffs,” Campus Athletic Coordinator Matt Swinnea said.

FISD District 7-5A Honors Announced

Wingspan Staff
December 10, 2021
Balancing ever-increasing workloads with extracurricular activities as well as the perils of everyday life is never easy. These reasons seem even less manageable when they have headaches.

Texas Board of Education makes mistake in rejecting mental health curriculum

Wingspan Staff
December 1, 2021

Beating the undefeated: football’s memorable win against Lovejoy

Trisha Dasgupta, Athena Tseng, and Wingspan Staff
November 5, 2021
Bands annual Trunk R Treat is happening Monday from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. With a high chance of rain, there is a weather contingency plan for the event to be moved indoors.

[Photo] Band's Trunk R Treat kicks off the Halloween season

October 24, 2022
Most of the clubs, classes, teams, and organizations taking part in Mondays Trunk or Treat decorated their car according to a theme. In the case of PALS, it was the movie Cars and the number 95 of Lightning McQueen.

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AP Human Geography teacher Tim Johannes walks through the parking lot at the 7th Annual Trunk or Treat. Johannes was one of at least a doze teachers or staff members at Mondays event.

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The 2021 Trunk or Treat is the 7th annual event put on by the schools band. Held on the last Monday of October, the 2020 event was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.

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For some clubs, teams, or organizations, getting candy required more than saying trunk or treat. At the softball dstop, a number of the bottom of the floating rubber ducks determined how many pieces of candy were received.

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Hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of candy, could be found in the back of the more than two dozen cars taking part in Trunk or Treat.

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Taking a look at her stockpile of candy, 10-year-old Piper Higgins tries to decide what she wants to eat. My dad lets us have a few pieces of candy before we go home, she said.

[Photo] Annual Trunk R Treat returns after cancellation last year

October 26, 2021
More than a thousand students, parents, and community members filled the band parking lot on Monday, Oct. 25 for bands annual Trunk or Treat event.

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Artistic Expressions: volume 12

Wingspan Staff
October 19, 2021

Meet the Frisco ISD Board of Trustees: John Classe

Wingspan Staff
October 12, 2021
Campus Connections takes a look at some of the newest staff members on campus.

Campus Connection: volume VIII

Wingspan Staff
October 7, 2021
End of the school year means going back to their hometowns for many foreign exchange students. Reasons for seeking out the foreign exchange program is different between students.

International flare comes to campus

Wingspan Staff
October 4, 2021
Senior Evan Stewart (#1) announced he is forgoing the remainder of the football season. Stewart is considering by many recruiting sites to be the top recruit in Texas, and one of top recruits in the country.

Breaking News: top football recruit to forgo remainder of season

Wingspan Staff
September 28, 2021
The barring of teaching race in the school education systems is counterproductive and does more harm than good.

Banning classroom discussions on race is unproductive

Wingspan Staff
September 27, 2021
Sporting undefeated records, junior Milla Dopson, and freshman Hailey Zhang hope to remain unbeaten as the Redhawks (5-1) try to take down the undefeated Independence Knights (6-0).

In a fight for first, tennis battles undefeated Knights

Wingspan Staff
September 17, 2021

Exclusive interview with Frisco ISD Superintendent: part three

Wingspan Staff
August 20, 2021

Exclusive interview with Frisco ISD Superintendent: part two

Wingspan Staff
August 19, 2021

Exclusive interview with Frisco ISD Superintendent

Wingspan Staff
August 18, 2021
Governor Greg Abbott announced via an executive order or Tuesday that school districts must drop their mask mandates beginning June 4. Frisco ISD had already announced students such as freshman Ashton Hatch, as well as staff, will not have to wear facial coverings beginning June 1.

Breaking News: Abbott bans masks mandates in schools

Wingspan Staff
May 18, 2021

StuCo presidental candidates debate

Wingspan Staff
April 19, 2021
Finishing atop the podium in the 110 lbs, senior Stephanie Qiu won the 5A Region II championship Saturday at Rock Hill High School. Qius win advanced her to the state tournament where she will be the Redhawks lone representative.

Qiu reigns in region championship, advances to state

Wingspan Staff
April 19, 2021
Carter Blood Care is holding blood drives at the CTE Center Training Room on Wednesday and Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students 16 and up are eligible to donate with a signed permission form from a parent or guardian.

[Photo] CTE Center holds blood drives Wednesday and Monday

October 25, 2022
The Texas Education Agency has released a new set of guidelines that suggests new protocols involving parent and trustee involvement in the evaluation of what books are appropriate for public school libraries.

School board to meet Monday night

Wingspan Staff
April 12, 2021
Frisco ISD announced Friday morning that it will continue to require all students, staff, and visitors wear face coverings such as that worn by freshman Karina Grokhovskaya. This comes after Governor Greg Abbott announced the states mask mandate will end March 10, 2021.

Breaking News: Frisco ISD to continue requiring face coverings

Wingspan Staff
March 5, 2021
Balancing ever-increasing workloads with extracurricular activities as well as the perils of everyday life is never easy. These reasons seem even less manageable when they have headaches.

Abbott’s mask decision is dangerous

Wingspan Staff
March 3, 2021
The Texas Education Agency has released a new set of guidelines that suggests new protocols involving parent and trustee involvement in the evaluation of what books are appropriate for public school libraries.

School board to discuss winter storm

Wingspan Staff
March 1, 2021
Known as one of the most influential singers and rappers of her generation, Lauryn Hill was born on May 25, 1975, in East Orange, New Jersey. After having her first child with Rohan Marley in 1997, Hill produced her first solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

Lauryn Hill

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Alicia Garza is a queer social justice activist who co-founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network alongside Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. Garza is also the principal of the Black Futures Lab.

Alicia Garza

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Known as the Queen of Neo-Soul, Erica Abi Wright, known professionally as Erykah Badu was born on Feb. 26, 1971 in Dallas, TX. Badu is known for her music’s mix of modern soul, R&B, hip-hop, pop, African music, and more.

Erykah Badu

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Barbara Smith is a Black lesbian feminist and socialist. Since the early 1970s, Smith has been active as an author, scholar, activist, and leader of the Black feminist thought. In 1974, she co-founded the Combahee River Collective, a Black lesbian feminist socialist organization that argued that both feminism led by white women and the Civil Rights movement were not addressing the needs of Black women, particularly Black lesbian women. 

Barbara Smith

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Lucy Hicks Anderson was a Black transgender pioneer, American socialite, chef, and prohibition-era entrepreneur. From a young age, Anderson knew she identified as a girl and insisted on wearing dresses and going by the name Lucy. Before the term “transgender” was coined, Lucy was taken to a local physcian by her mother and the physician suggested that Lucy be brought up as a girl and she was.

Lucy Hicks Anderson

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist who blended social commentary, expressive graffiti designs, oil and acrylic paintings, memorable poetry, and much more, and would go on to become one of the most influential contemporary artists of all time. A common and well-known motif of Basquiat’s is a crown, which he used in his works to celebrate Black people as royalty, kings, and saints. Many of his works also criticize the systems of racism, colonialism, and capitalism. 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Every day for Black History Month, Wingspan will be publishing profiles on prominent Black historical figures, leaders, and revolutionaries.

Black History Month

Wingspan Staff
February 28, 2021
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, Malcolm X, also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was a Black Muslim minister and human rights activist, known for his efforts in the civil rights movement of the 60s.

Malcolm X

Wingspan Staff
February 27, 2021
Born a slave in 1797, Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist, activist, and intersectional feminist.

Sojourner Truth

Wingspan Staff
February 27, 2021
Born in September of 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, George Jackson was an activist, author, and communist.

George Jackson

Wingspan Staff
February 27, 2021
Born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1939, Colvin was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movements of the 60s. Though she has often been left out of stories mentioning the fight for desegregation, Colvin’s court case, and her subsequent work for the N.A.A.C.P., had an undeniable impact on the civil rights movement.

Claudette Colvin

Wingspan Staff
February 27, 2021
Author, activist, and educator Patrisse Cullors has dedicated her life to fight for the end of violence against Black people in America and empower communities. She is one of the co creators of Black Lives Matter and has developed programs to unite the Black community throughout her life. Along with her activism, she also as a professor at Prescott College where developed the Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program.

Patrisse Cullors

Wingspan Staff
February 25, 2021
Opal Tometi is a human rights activist who has been fighting for justice since her early years. From being one of the three creators of the Black Lives Matter movement to creating an electronic hub to unite the Black community, Tometi is a force of nature with her voice and continues to fight for equality today.

Opal Tometi

Wingspan Staff
February 23, 2021
The impact of the severe winter weather that put Frisco and most of Texas in a deep freeze is impacting Frisco ISD beyond Friday as the district is tentatively planning for virtual learning for Monday and Tuesday, but perhaps even longer for some campuses.

Breaking news: tentative plans call for virtual learning due to winter weather fallout

Wingspan Staff
February 19, 2021
17 year old Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Congresswoman Illhan Omar, is an environmental activist who focuses on the need for the climate movement to make more room for Black Muslim youth leaders, as well as acknowledge the various intersections that contribute to climate change, such as the impact of capitalism, white supremacy, and colonialism on the climate. “Creating more space for those with marginalized identities in the climate space is necessary for inclusive solutions,” Hirsi said in Vox.

Isra Hirsi

Wingspan Staff
February 15, 2021
Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams

Wingspan Staff
February 13, 2021
Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Wingspan Staff
February 12, 2021
With the possibility of inclement weather hitting the Frisco area sometime Sunday, Frisco ISD emailed parents Friday afternoon with a tentative plan for Feb. 16-19.

Breaking news: Frisco ISD emails parents regarding plans for possible inclement weather

Wingspan Staff
February 12, 2021
Afeni Shakur was a socialist, revolutionary thinker, and activist who fought for Black liberation and was a prominent member of the Black Panther Party, as well as the mother to rapper and actor Tupac. Writing for the Black Panther Party’s newsletter, Panther Post, Shakur also headed a successful campaign that led the FBI to believe the party was fading, led a section of the Harlem chapter, as well as worked as a mentor to new members.

Afeni Shakur

Wingspan Staff
February 11, 2021
The first Black woman scientist to be employed at NASA, engineer Mary Jackson became an inspiration for many.

Mary Jackson

Wingspan Staff
February 10, 2021
Growing up in a segregated Birmingham, in a part of town referred to as “Dynamite Hill” in reference to the numerous attacks committed by the Klu Klux Klan, much of Davis’s childhood was plagued by the horrors of racism and bigotry. Her activism started at a young age.

Angela Davis

Wingspan Staff
February 9, 2021
Eunince Kathleen Waymon, known professionally as Nina Simone, was a socialist, Black nationalist, revolutionary, civil rights activist, singer, songwriter, musician, and more, whose art spanned the musical genres and styles of pop, classical, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, and R&B. “It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girls talk,” Nina Simone said in her autobiography, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone. 

Nina Simone

Wingspan Staff
February 8, 2021
Born on December 19, 1924, in East Harlem, Cicely Tyson was a legendary actress who broke multiple glass ceilings for Black women in Hollywood.

Cicely Tyson

Wingspan Staff
February 8, 2021
Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazing American politician as the first Black woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress and the first Black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency when she ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1972. Learn more about Chisholm in her books Unbought and Unbossed and The Good Fight and the 2004 documentary Chisholm ‘72 directed by Shola Lynch.

Shirley Chisholm

Wingspan Staff
February 6, 2021
Fred Hampton was a Black revolutionary socialist and activist who served as the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party. He was a leading force in the fight for Black liberation, advocating for an international proletarian revolution against capitalism, imperialism, fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy by all means necessary. You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution, Hampton said in You Cant Jail a Revolution speech at a Black Panther rally.

Fred Hampton

Wingspan Staff
February 5, 2021
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a Black journalist who is most known for her investigations into the violent lynching of Black people by white people through her journalism and was actively involved in the civil rights and suffrage movements. In 2020, Wells-Barnett received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for “her outstanding and couregous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americand during the era of lynching.”

Ida B. Wells

Wingspan Staff
February 4, 2021
Chairman of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee Gloria Richardson marches for equal rights for Black people in America. In the 1960s, the Cambridge Movement fueled the fight against injustices and discrimination.

Gloria Richardson

Wingspan Staff
February 3, 2021
Marsha Pay It No Mind Johnson was a Black gay liberation activist who pioneered the movement for LGBTQ+ human rights. As long as gay people dont have their rights all across America, theres no reason for celebration, Johnson said.

Marsha P. Johnson

Wingspan Staff
February 2, 2021
A communist, Black nationalist, journalist, community leader, feminist and more, read about political activist Claudia Jones in the first installment of Wingspans daily reports highlighting Black historical figures and their impact on the world.

Claudia Jones

Wingspan Staff
February 1, 2021
Campus Connections takes a look at some of the newest staff members on campus.

Campus Connection: volume VII

Wingspan Staff
December 12, 2020
Two months after taking the PSAT on Oct. 9, sophomores and juniors on campus will receive their PSAT scores on Tuesday. But the wait has just begun for those hoping for a National Merit Scholarship as semifinalists are not announced until the fall.

PSAT scores scheduled to be released Tuesday

Wingspan Staff
December 4, 2020
Balancing ever-increasing workloads with extracurricular activities as well as the perils of everyday life is never easy. These reasons seem even less manageable when they have headaches.

Homecoming parties during a pandemic must be discouraged

Wingspan Staff
November 16, 2020
Students who have not yet taken pictures for the 2022-2023 yearbook have one last chance. They can take pictures on Wednesday and Thursday before school, during advisory and after school.

Picture retake day on Tuesday

Wingspan Staff
October 26, 2020

[Video] Rocking the vote by wearing the “vote.”

Wingspan Staff
October 13, 2020
This years National Merit Semifinalists have been named. 12 students have been recognized from Liberty.

National merit semifinalists named

Wingspan Staff
September 15, 2020

New year brings new food service procedures

Wingspan Staff
September 3, 2020

Face to face protocols in place

Wingspan Staff
September 2, 2020
The barring of teaching race in the school education systems is counterproductive and does more harm than good.

Combat the uncertainty with empathy

Wingspan Staff
August 13, 2020
Kasey Harvey (top left) served alongside Lucas Bar (top right) as Editor-in-chief for their junior and senior years. In addition, Yael Even (bottom left), who joined staff as a sophomore, and Maddie Aronson (bottom right), who joined staff as a junior, served as two of Wingspans Managing Editors for the 2019-20 school year.

Senior editors say goodbye as they leave The Nest

Wingspan Staff
May 28, 2020

Class of 2020’s academic top 10 named

Wingspan Staff
May 27, 2020
Among the topics discussed at Wednesdays special meeting of the Frisco ISD Board of Trustees was a potential pay raise for employees and a possible coronavirus stipend.

Teachers could see pay raise in proposed 2020-2021 budget

Wingspan Staff
May 15, 2020
In addition to winning the CSPA Gold Crown this year, Wingspan has received other top honors on the regional, state, and national levels.

Wingspan receives top state and national honors

Wingspan Staff
May 4, 2020
Biology teacher Chris Ham is the schools 2019-2020 Teacher of the Year winner and will be featured in the districts Facebook live ceremony Thursday, starting at 6 p.m.

District hosting Teacher of the Year celebration live on Facebook

Wingspan Staff
April 23, 2020
Tuesday night the girls team were able to cage the Reedy Lions 34-18. However shortly after their win the boys fell short 60-52.

Owens-Barnett selected for 5A all-state team

Wingspan Staff
April 20, 2020
Frisco ISD will be observing a four day weekend as Friday and Monday are school holidays with no eLearning scheduled for these two days. eLearning classes resume on Tuesday.

eLearning to take a break for district holidays

Wingspan Staff
April 9, 2020
On Wednesday, at the district building, the board of trustees is holding their monthly Inside Scoop.

School board to hold video conference meeting

Wingspan Staff
April 7, 2020
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