Attendees at August’s Workshop Wednesday, sponsored by HISD’s Business Assistance Department, learned that there is often a financial cost to a bad hire and that hiring decisions – good or bad – can have a huge impact on a company’s bottom line.
Students may still be on vacation, but more than 450 teachers from the Houston Independent School District went back to the classroom this summer for an intensive training program organized by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Education Outreach. The Baylor Summer Science Institute is geared toward teachers who may not have a strong science […]
Members of the Austin High School community came out this week for the first of three community meetings to hear about plans for the school’s new campus. As part of HISD’s current bond program, Austin will receive a new $68.4 million building that will accommodate 1,800 to 2,000 students. [photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G0000wz2fxWoyg2o” g_name=”20150805-Austin” width=”600″ f_fullscreen=”t” bgtrans=”t” […]
HISD Nutrition Services has been awarded a second grant from the Oliver Foundation, a local organization dedicated to preventing childhood obesity. The award will help the department to promote, educate, and encourage HISD students to adopt healthy eating habits. Nutrition Services received $3,000 from the Oliver Foundation last October and partnered with Davis High School’s […]
Part pep rally, part teacher development, the district’s 2015 edition of the New Teacher Academy kicked off on Aug. 5 with hundreds of enthusiastic educators soaking up HISD culture and information at the Kingdom Builders’ Center. The annual event is designed to introduce new HISD teachers to the district, connect them with resources they’ll need […]
Steven Stapleton has been selected to be principal of McReynolds Middle School. He began his teaching career at Madisonville Consolidated ISD and Dickinson ISD as a physics and chemistry teacher. He then moved to Alvin ISD, where he served as district technology-curriculum specialist, assistant principal, and most recently, director of professional learning and innovative teaching. Mr. Stapleton […]
Campus and district leaders are getting ready for the start of the new school year by sharing best practices and learning some new ways to help students succeed. The Professional Learning Series 2015 was held at NRG Park in early August, and Sessions were designed to connect HISD’s leader competencies with Global Graduate competencies, as […]
More than 2,000 teachers attend professional development focused on transforming instruction Nearly 1,000 middle and high school teachers spent the last week of July gearing up for the start of the school year at the district’s Summer Transformation Institute—one of five professional development sessions held this summer by the Office of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction. […]
With the new school year just ahead, the HISD Transportation Department is taking every measure to ensure safe, reliable, and punctual transportation for students. To reach this goal, HISD Transportation remained busy all summer searching for the best candidates to join its nationally recognized team. The department supports the student’s educational day by providing safe, professional, […]
About 1,000 new and veteran teachers attended HISD’s ongoing teacher professional development recently, which included a heavy dose of Literacy By 3 training. [su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2JhS1VgqV8″] The sessions were designed to help teachers learn effective methods and classroom management techniques that lead to students reading on level by the third grade. Charity Smith, a manager for […]