Dana Darden has been the proud principal of Benbrook Elementary School for an incredible 18 years and is this week’s HISD Star Educator.
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Lights. Camera. Lead. HISD spotlights Star Educator Cynthia Requena Renteria
Cynthia Requena Renteria is a first grade teacher at Benbrook Elementary School and is this week’s HISD Star Educator.
Continue readingLights. Camera. Lead. HISD spotlights Star Educator Alvaro Montelongo, Jr.
Alvaro Montelongo, Jr. is the proud principal of Scarborough High School, where he is driving meaningful progress in year two of transformation.
Year one, Montelongo was the principal at Berry Elementary School, where he led the camps from a C to a high-B rating. His effective leadership and strong instructional coaching led to remarkable academic growth across grade levels and a 100% teacher retention rate at the campus.
Continue readingLights. Camera. Lead. HISD spotlights Star Educator Yurixi Rojas
Yurixi Rojas is an English and ESL teacher at Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center High School and is this week’s Star Educator.
Continue readingLights. Camera. Lead. HISD spotlights Star Educator Janite Grooms
Janite Grooms is an English and ESL teacher at Wisdom High School and is this week’s Star Educator.
At the New Education System campus, Grooms took on the challenge of making sure the new curriculum worked for ESL students, and her approach became the standard for the transition.
Continue readingLights. Camera. Lead. HISD spotlights Star Educator Xenia Kaniouras
HISD’s Highland Heights Elementary has seen tremendous growth under the New Education System, going from a D to a B rating in just one year.
Teachers like Xenia Kaniouras are driving that success in the classroom. With a love for math and seeing her students excel, she is this week’s Star Educator.
Continue readingLights. Camera. Lead. HISD Spotlights Star Educator Amanda Williams
Fondren Middle School’s Amanda Williams loves making a positive impact on her students and seeing them grow. As a sixth-grade social studies teacher last school year, her enthusiasm and commitment earned her Campus Teacher of the Year. This year, she’s thriving in her role as an English Language Development Interventionist for the New Education System (NES) campus and is this week’s HISD Star Educator.
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