Sanchez Elementary School is among 22 schools from across the country–and the only one from HISD–selected as a finalist for the National Excellence in Urban Education Award. The school was recognized by the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) for generating strong test results, high attendance rates, and excellent student behavior among all student demographics. Continue reading
Category Archives: Elementary Schools
Day 4: Code.org awards school $10,000 for new laptops
Students at Kolter Elementary School cheered and posed for pictures alongside a $10,000 check from Code.org that will go toward purchasing new laptops after the school won the nonprofit’s Hour of Code registration challenge. Kolter was selected as the Texas school winner along with 50 other schools that were named the winners for their state. [su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/114167212″ ]
Engineers, college professor, and even a cowboy share love of reading with elementary students
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Reading aloud to students is widely recognized as the single most important activity for developing literacy. And if that reader also can serve as a positive male role model, even better.
This past fall, Anderson Elementary Dual Language School launched M.A.L.E. (Men and Literacy Evolving), an initiative in which male members of the community come to the school to read to students on the last Monday of each month. Anderson Principal Roslyn Stiles Vaughn envisioned the program after a member of her church expressed his desire to make a difference by reading to students. Continue reading
HISD student wins grand prize worth $25K in Microsoft’s Bing Summer Story Challenge
Park Place students won big in the national Bing Summer Story Challenge. From left to right are Adrian Pizarro, Johana Contreras Castillo, and grand prize winner Shaun Toliao.
Third-grader Shaun Toliao will be taking his family to Hawaii, just for writing a story about what he did last summer. The Park Place Elementary School student was the grand prize winner of the Bing in the Classroom Summer Story Challenge, a digital storytelling contest sponsored by Microsoft.
He also won a Surface Pro Tablet and other tech prizes, as well as the opportunity to take classes in digital literacy while in Hawaii. Toliao’s prize is worth a grand total of $25,000. Continue reading
Two children’s authors visit HISD elementary schools this week
Red ES student Brian Mejia poses for a photo with children author Don Tate and the school librarian, Melissa Buron.
Red Elementary School students welcomed two children’s authors to their school this week. On Monday, Dec. 1, the HISD science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) magnet school celebrated the love of fairy tales with author Liesl Shurtliff. Shurtliff is the author of the Bluebonnet Nominated book “RUMP: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin.” Author and illustrator Don Tate, who’s written more than 50 books for children, also stopped by Red ES. On Wednesday, Dec. 3, Shurtliff made another visit to a HISD school by reading to students at Patterson Elementary School.
Red ES students pose for a photo with children’s author Liesl Shurtliff on Dec. 3, 2014.
Patterson ES students get a visit from children’s author Liesl Shurtliff on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.
Houston Police Department’s K-9 unit inspires students to ‘be a better you’
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Foerster Elementary School students were treated to a visit from the Houston Police Department’s K-9 Unit on Thursday, Dec. 4 while learning the importance of making positive decisions every day.
Students get behind-the-scenes look at Houston Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”
The Houston Ballet recently treated 43 Brookline Elementary School students and their family members to a behind-the-scenes look of “The Nutcracker” by allowing the group to attend a dress rehearsal for the show at the Wortham Center.
Elementary students take art ‘on the road’ to promote fine arts magnet program
The lobby of Spring Hill Suites by Marriott will be transformed into an art gallery from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, thanks to the creativity of 30 Crespo Elementary School students.The event will help raise public awareness of HISD’s outstanding magnet programs, and Crespo is honored to represent the fine arts programs in particular.
Houston Texans player’s annual toy giveaway comes to HISD
Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson came with lots of toys during a visit to Bastian Elementary School on Dec. 2. Johnson, accompanied by Houston Texans cheerleaders, gave students bikes and toys and took photos with students as part of his annual toy giveaway event.
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Hour of Code registration pays off with $10,000 prize for one school
Kolter ES one of 51 campuses across the country to win in random drawing
Kolter Elementary School is the lucky school from Texas to win $10,000 worth of laptops for registering to participate in the Hour of Code, through which millions of students will spend at least one hour learning about computer science next week.