At Dumas Technology Academy, <span style="color: #ff6600">Word of the Week</span> is a school-wide initiative that began in September 2008. Every Monday morning, Mrs. Sharron Carothers, our Media Center Specialist, chooses a vocabulary word that every PK - 8th grade student is taught. Some rooms have students write stories including the word, act out what the word means, or look for the word in action. The word is also posted on bulletin boards throughout the school, on our <a href="www.dumastech.org" target="_blank">school website</a>, and a student announces and defines the word daily.

What does <em>in action</em> mean? Finding a word in action means that the <span style="color: #ff6600">Word of the Week</span> was seen in context. In the context of a conversation, publication, or visual production outside of school. 

Blogging about our weekly <span style="color: #ff6600">Word of the Week</span> will archive all the vocabulary we learn.