This fall Harrison A. Peters will rely on his more than 15 years of experience as a teacher, principal, and administrator as he leads HISD’s High School Office. As chief high schools officer, Peters will oversee 51 campuses with a combined enrollment of nearly 50,000 students. He and a team of school support officers and principals will focus on increasing student outcomes, expanding academic rigor and connecting students to experiences that support their career and college goals. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
Camp helps boost high school students’ literacy skills
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About 160 rising freshman and sophomores are spending two weeks of their summer participating in a Houston ISD camp at Challenge Early College High School designed to boost their reading and writing abilities.
“The purpose of the camp is to provide the students with literacy strategies that they can take back with them to their schools and to get them excited and engaged with the acts of reading and writing,” said Erica Harris of Carnegie Vanguard High School, the program’s curriculum writer and lead teacher.
The students take four classes a day at the camp, each themed around the young adult book Divergent by Veronica Roth. Each class focuses on a different area of literary development.
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Video highlights design ideas for new building wing at Grady MS
Grady Middle School recently presented the final design images of its new 21st century facility, which is highlighted in a new HISD video that explores the planning and design of the campus.
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Mark White ES community hears about green design plans for new school
The new Mark White Elementary School, formally referred to as Relief Elementary, held its second community meeting on Tuesday to discuss project details of the upcoming campus.
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‘Green-minded’ students earn money while giving back to nature
Performing manual labor outdoors in July is probably not the way most Houstonians would choose to spend their time, but for some HISD students, there’s nowhere else they’d rather be.
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Meet HISD’s new Literacy Director, Cindy Puryear
On June 9, Cindy Puryear became HISD’s new director of literacy. We sat down with her recently to talk about how she overcame her own reading difficulties as a young person, when she first knew she would be a teacher, and what her goals are for the first year of Literacy By 3. Following is a condensed transcript of that conversation.
Video highlights 21st century design concepts for Milby High School
Final design concepts for Milby High School, which will be rebuilt into a 21st century learning environment, are featured in a new HISD video highlighting the planning of the campus.
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HISD seniors touring Yale, other top campuses as part of EMERGE tour
Accounts of trip will launch new EMERGing Voices student blog
Almost 100 HISD rising seniors have begun touring Yale University and nearby campuses today, meeting with professors, deans and first-generation college students during a week-long visit to New Haven, Conn. Continue reading
HISD PSAT prep camp aims at creating National Merit Scholars
High school students looking to boost their PSAT scores tested their math and reading skills against peers Monday in a challenging game of fill-in-the-blank-sentences, vocabulary connotations and math problems. Continue reading
Foundation created by Milby descendant still benefiting HISD students
More than a dozen students from six HISD high schools are $16,000 closer to achieving their dreams of higher education, thanks to an organization founded by the descendant of an HISD school’s namesake and her husband. Continue reading