Bring the whole family to celebrate the new school year at @MayorBowser's Back to School Day! 🎒 Enjoy giveaways, food, fun activities, music, and more. Students can also receive free haircuts and immunizations. #BackToDCPS 🗓️Friday, August 23 ⏰12:00-4:00 p.m. 📍RFK Fields

Congratulations to the winners of the 36th annual Celebration of Youth Essay Contest! Students in grades 4-9 shared personal stories about challenges, honesty, & responsibility. Their essays will be included in a book that contains submissions from the contest's past 35 years 👏

LIVE: Mayor Bowser Celebrates the School Year at Barnard Elementary School's Career Day

For Shay Blanchard, who coaches our team @barnardes2 with her sister Shanice, DC SCORES is (literally) a family! In fact, she says, it's the "biggest supportive family you’ll come across." Read more about Coach Shay in our first #SCORESCommunity spotlight:

🌎♻️💡 The next generation of climate responsible citizens is ready! The 5th graders of Barnard Elementary School @BarnardES2 in DC hosted us for a dynamic exchange about energy, climate change & migration in preparation of their mini-UN summit. Congrats to teacher Octavia Wolf!

Families, help us understand how you feel about your child's school experience, including how DCPS can continue partnering with you to promote student success. Share your feedback here ➡️ https://t.co/xpvFZOpbfC

#womenempowerment We LOVE THIS! #powertothepeople

Our Bears enjoyed creating a Malawi 🇲🇼 cookbook and cooking Mbatata (Malawian Sweet Potato Cookies) 🍪. #tasteofmalawi @dcglobaled #malawi🇲🇼 @dcpublicschools @EmbassyAdoption

🎨🍏🖌️ Celebrating Belgian artist #RenéMagritte and #surrealism with the 5th graders of @BarnardES2 and Mrs. Wolf! Clouds, apples and bowler hats – iconic objects that transcend time, now brought to life by the creative minds of our talented budding artists.👏 #artdiplomacy

As National School Counseling Week comes to a close, shout-out to Ms. Montgomery from @BarnardES2, a treasured Bilingual School Counselor who inspires students to give back to their community 🐻 💙 💛 Thank you to all the school counselors across @dcpublicschools! 🙏🏿 #NSCW24

The BEARS enjoyed their writing ✍️ workshop hosted by author @lakitawrites @lakitareads! Thank you @penfaulkner @dcpublicschools @HonoredSchools

Congratulations to the CHAMPIONS of the SPELLING BEE 🐝! @dcpublicschools @honoredschools

OUR School - Wide SPELLING BEE 🐝 was a SUCCESS!!! All of the BEARS did an amazing job!!! #spellingbeecompetition @dcpublicschools @HonoredSchools

Congratulations 🎉 goes out to 3rd grade Rico who won a 1-year scholarship from Joy of Motion Dance Center during the DCPS DANCE FESTIVAL!! 👏 👏 👏 @dcpublicschools @honoredschools

Our BEARS 🐻 had an AWESOME time participating in The DCPS Dance Festival @dcpublicschools @honoredschools

3rd Grade enjoyed a trip to @fordstheatre ! @dcpublicschools

🇧🇪❤️🚸 We had such a great time with the 5th graders & Mrs Wolf of Barnard Elementary School. The class was invited to tour the Belgian residence and was treated to waffles & fries. The students made the most of their chance to ask dozens of questions to Ambassador Régibeau!

Just look at the impact this donation from @ScreamingEagles and @dcunited made on poet-athletes @BarnardES2! 😍 So grateful for our partnership with the Black and Red! 🫶

🇺🇸WE SALUTE our VERY OWN #veteran … Mr. Smith who served in the Army for 9 years. During that time he spent 6 years as a mechanic, 3 years as a Medical Service officer and completed 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. #happyveteransday🇺🇸 @dcpublicschools @honoredschools

🚸☀️ Happy to meet the 5th graders at Barnard Elementary School @BarnardES2 in DC! After a quiz we took the learning outdoors for an active game on 🇧🇪 & 🇪🇺. ✏️ Proud to be a long-standing partner of @EmbassyAdoption and thrilled to start a new year of exchange and fun.