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CYCLE Houston rewards students’ literacy achievements with bikes

Thousands of HISD second-graders from across the district will be awarded bicycles for achieving their reading goals for the semester.

Through the CYCLE (Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education) bike program, students worked with teachers to create personalized literacy goals to help boost their reading skills. Each student signed a contract that once those goals were achieved, they would be awarded a brand-new bicycle and helmet.

According to CYCLE, the program not only helps students achieve grade-level reading, it teaches them that hard work equals reward. Students at Eliot Elementary School were so excited about the prospect of earning a bicycle, they came to school early, stayed late, and tracked their own reading progress for months. Continue reading

Benbrook Elementary School Elves and More Donations

Christmas arrived early for nearly three hundred kindergarten through third grade students at Benbrook Elementary School.   On Saturday, December 15, the students were awarded free bicycles and helmets from the group Elves and More for achieving their reading goals for the semester. Continue reading

Benbrook Elementary School Students Awarded Bicycles for Academic Excellence

Hundreds of Benbrook Elementary school students will be awarded bicycles for achieving their reading goals for the semester.  The kindergarten through third-grade students will also receive free helmets.  The generous donation is made possible by Elves and More which annually donates bicycles to students.   The City of Houston Bicyclist-Pedestrian department also donated two bicycle racks for Benbrook Elementary. 

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