Seven-venue event combines hoops with holiday giving The Houston area’s best girls basketball players will face off at seven HISD venues December 5-7 in the 30th annual Houston ISD Basketball Tournament – combining action on the courts with a giant food and toy drive, in the spirit of the holiday season.
The National Wildlife Federation is hosting a workshop on Saturday, Dec. 14, for middle school science teachers to provide them with tools to launch a student-based energy efficiency program to make their school more sustainable and to get students more engaged in STEM.
A new team approach – blending classroom learning with home support — is revolutionizing teacher-parent conferences in an HISD pilot program. Centered on “Academic Parent-Teacher Teams,” the approach being tried at eight schools brings in groups of parents to meet with their child’s teacher three times a year. Instead of merely walking out with a […]
Katherine Smith Elementary also unveils new administration and classroom wing Sherman Elementary School students admired the smart boards and cubby spaces and helped sharpen pencils on Monday as teachers prepared to start class for the first time at their new building. “It’s awesome because it’s all new,” said fourth-grader Xavier Cegueda, who was met with […]
Teachers at the schools involved in the district’s one-to-one initiative aren’t waiting until January, when nearly 18,000 students will be assigned their own laptops, to start using digital resources in their classrooms. Instead, many teachers at the 11 pilot schools in PowerUp are already integrating web 2.0 tools they have been learning at recent training […]
Lamar HS will face Pearland at 1 p.m. Friday in the regional round of the UIL 5A Division football championships after blanking Alief-Taylor’s powerful offense Saturday, 36-0. Go to the Houston Chronicle’s website for an account of the game.
Editor’s note: This profile is part of an occasional series on minority or women-owned companies that do business with HISD. The district’s minimum M/WBE goal levels are 20 percent for all levels of purchasing and construction, and 25 percent for professional services. In the 2007 bond program, that commitment reached nearly 34 percent. In the […]
Every year, HISD students from across the district create original artworks in the hopes of having their design chosen to grace the district’s annual holiday card. This year, Superintendent Terry Grier selected three students’ designs–one from Park Place ES, one from Johnston MS, and one from DeBakey HS. The winners were announced during a special […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/80104908/ w=662&h=373] Fondren Middle School celebrated its new status as an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School on Nov. 21 with music, poetry, art, and special guest speaker James Reilly, a former NASA astronaut. Fondren joins Reagan High School and Hogg Middle School in receiving official authorization in July to offer the rigorous IB Middle […]
Construction managers, architects, engineers and program managers who’ve been awarded contracts so far in the 2012 bond program were part of a mandatory daylong HISD training Wednesday to ensure that they comply with all safety, labor and M/WBE requirements.