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Recognition in athletics often comes with a title, a trophy, or a moment on a podium. But the work that leads there rarely looks like that. It looks like early mornings before school. It looks like repetition that no one is watching. It looks like a group of students choosing, day after day, to push themselves a little further than they did the day before.
That’s the space where Coach Derek Jennings has built his program. Coach Jennings has been named the Pennsylvania Track & Field Coaches Association Girls Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year, an honor voted on by coaches across the state.
It reflects not just a successful season, but a level of respect earned among peers who understand what it takes to build and sustain a program over time.
Join us in congratulating to Coach Jennings on this well-earned recognition, and to the student-athletes whose effort and commitment made this moment possible!
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Some messages don’t need to be spoken out loud to be understood. You can see them in the way a team stands together. In the way people choose to show up, not just for a moment, but for something that matters.
At Price Elementary, that message is visible worn across each shirt: In a world where you can be anything, Be kind.
On World Autism Day, and throughout Autism Acceptance Month, that commitment becomes becomes practice.
Across the School District of Lancaster, this work is happening every day. In classrooms, in small group spaces, and in the quiet moments that don’t always get seen. It’s part of a larger commitment to creating schools where every student feels valued, supported, and seen.
Students come into school with different ways of communicating, learning, and experiencing the world. For students with autism, that can mean navigating spaces that aren’t always built with them in mind. It can mean needing flexibility and understanding in ways that aren’t always visible.
That’s where educators make the difference. Acceptance lives in the daily choices staff make across our schools. It’s in how lessons are adapted. It’s in how routines are built. It’s in how relationships are formed, it’s in the belief that every student belongs, exactly as they are.
What we see at Price Elementary reflects something happening across the School District of Lancaster.
A shared understanding that inclusion is not about asking students to fit into a system. It’s about shaping the environment so every student can belong within it. A culture of belonging where differences are not just acknowledged, but valued as part of the learning community.
Because belonging shouldn’t be something students have to earn. It should be something they walk into.
And across our schools, every day, that’s the work we continue to do.
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