05.25.08
Posted in News at 12:25 am by Paloma Cruz
Award will fund teacher training, pique student interest in history
– Houston Chronicle2
Pasadena students could soon receive a better education in history after the school district was awarded the Teaching American History Grant.
The Pasadena school district is the newest recipient of the grant aimed at simultaneously improving students’ history knowledge and teachers’ classroom skills.
The $949,434 grant will fund training with expert historians in cutting-edge techniques to develop teacher knowledge and appreciation for American history, encourage dynamic instruction and make history an interesting subject.
The curriculum is geared toward developing the classroom strategy of teachers and to help them bring American history alive for students.
Teachers in this program gain a deeper understanding of history.
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Posted in News at 12:21 am by Paloma Cruz
Students’ phones seized over girls’ nude photos
‘It’s child pornography,’ superintendent says
– Houston Chronicle2
Police in the Santa Fe school district have confiscated dozens of
phones as they search for nude images of two junior high school girls
that were forwarded to numerous students, the district superintendent
said Tuesday.
“Those students forwarded the images and the circle opened up and got wider and wider,” Superintendent Jon Whittemore said.
The two Santa Fe Junior High School students took nude photos of
themselves and sent them to their boyfriends, Whittemore said. The
boyfriends forwarded the photos to others, who in turn forwarded them
again, he said.
“It’s child pornography, is what it is,” Whittemore said.
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05.15.08
Posted in News at 12:17 am by Paloma Cruz
HISD names its Teachers of the Year
– KHOU CBS Channel 111
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The Houston
Independent School District crowned one elementary and one secondary
school teacher as their Teachers of the Year: Melaine Leavens of
Wainwright Elementary and David Brown of Challenge Early College.
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Posted in News at 12:07 am by Paloma Cruz
Teach for America to add 230 teachers in Houston
– Houston Business Journal
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More than 230 new teachers will be in place, up 15 percent from last year.
The new teachers will form an active Houston corps of more than 400
first- and second-year teachers who will reach 32,000 students during
the 2008-09 year.
This year’s growth is made possible in part by a $1 million commitment from Laura and John Arnold in support of Teach For America’s presence in the Houston area.
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