DeWitt-Lavaca Special Education Cooperative

The RISE elementary students and staff had an exciting trip to the Texas Zoo and Riverside Park in Victoria on Friday, March 14, 2025. Highlights included learning about the anim...

Students in Mrs. Welch's RISE junior high class planted marigolds, vincas, plumbago, tomatoes and miniature roses. The students enjoyed the opportunity to get hands-on with their ...

Mrs. Cowan's class enjoyed listening to guest readers during their participation in "Read across America." Guest readers and their literary selections included the following: ...

Mrs. Hanson shared the following update on her class's recent hands-on study of the life cycle of a chicken: In our class, we embarked on an exciting journey to learn about the...

On January 28, Mrs. Hanson's class celebrated the annual midyear milestone of 100 days of learning. Celebration activities included dressing up like someone who might be 100 year...

Students in Mrs. Hanson's and Mrs. Cowan's classes had fun exploring science through dry ice experiments. Students were able to pop "smoke"-filled bubbles that were created when...

The "St. Joe Wrappers," as we fondly call them, came to the DLSEC office for the 11th year to wrap almost 200 Christmas gifts for DLSEC students and staff. Each year, the St. Joe...

On August 5, as our DLSEC staff came together to begin the 2024-2025 school year, we took some time to reflect upon and celebrate our 2023-2024 school year. Amber Arceneaux cre...

Mrs. Welch's Elementary 3 students hosted a "Tour of Towns" for RISE students, staff, and guests to come and see their creations. Students worked in small groups to create a town...

Students in the RISE secondary classes were treated to an end-of-year outing at the Yoakum Grand Theater to enjoy seeing the movie MIGRATION complete with snacks for the show. Af...

Mrs. Hebert's class has been studying the plant life cycle this month. They took this opportunity to plant sunflowers, daisies and coneflowers. These plants had a couple of week...

Mrs. Welch's students took time this week to show extra appreciation to their teacher and their nurse, Bridget Hairell. This is a great time to show all of our educational staf...

RISE Junior High students in Mrs. Patek's class put their culinary skills to work making "thank-you" brownies to show their appreciation to the Yoakum High School PALS who have be...

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Yoakum High School PALS hosted the annual DLSEC prom. This year's theme was Safari Soirée and it was evident all throughout the St. Joe Family C...

On March 27, 2024, we held our 10th annual Easter egg hunt for the RISE elementary students. It's been quite a while since we were able to host our Easter egg hunt in the Yoakum ...

During the 88th legislative session, our Congress established a celebration of Texas fruits and vegetables to be held on the first Friday of April each year. This year, Nurse Sup...

The students in Mrs. Hanson's ECSE class have been enjoying learning about insects!

DLSEC multi-district high school students in Valerie Thiry's and Brad Roznovsky's classes put their culinary skills to work making peach cobblers to deliver for Texas Public Schoo...

Fidget Chicks is a group of folks from Granbury, Texas, who get together to make "fidget mats" for people who would benefit from them. Fidget mats are collections of engaging sen...

On October 31, 2023, DLSEC RISE students participated in a popular Halloween tradition--trick-or-treating! The DLSEC office provided the environment for door-to-door trick-or-tre...