Spring
Woods High School’s boys and girls soccer teams, SBISD’s partnership with two
highly regarded public charter schools, and an innovative, peer-to-peer student
mentoring program in reading called Learning Together are a few of the notable
district events and programs making local news recently.
Spring
Woods High School Boys and Girls Soccer
Spring
Woods High’s Girls and Boys Soccer teams competed in the 4A Region III
semifinals April 11-12 at Turner Stadium in Humble. It marked the first time
for a boys and girls team from the same high school to move on to regional
competition.
Buoyed
on April 11 by the support of 1,200 Spring Woods High classmates, Tiger Boys
soccer defeated Jacksonville 2-1. That team lost a day later against Lee High
in a 3-1 overtime game. Spring Woods High girls fought hard, but lost 1-0, also
in overtime, to College Station on Friday.
To
read more about Tiger soccer, please visit this Houston Chronicle news report:
Learning
Together at Terrace Elementary with United Way
United
Way's Learning Together program at Terrace Elementary School was the focus of
an upbeat, April 12 news feature in the Houston Chronicle newspaper.
Piloted
this school year with nearly 140 students at six Houston-area campuses, United
Way's Learning Together program puts older students in charge of
tutoring younger peers – in this case, fourth-graders overseeing second-grade
students who attend Terrace Elementary.
Some
students in the program begin behind grade level, but they all have made great gains,
educators said. Not only are they reading better, they're raising their hands
to speak in class more, they're checking out harder books from the library and
they're more confident when reading aloud.
Houston
Chronicle subscribers can read more about this story here:
SKY
Partnership in SBISD earns praise from USA Today columnist
The
author of an upcoming book on charter schools in the United States praises the
work that Spring Branch ISD has done in recent years with the KIPP and YES Prep
programs at two district middle schools.
Richard
Whitmire, author of “On the Rocketship: How High Performing Charter Schools are
Pushing the Envelope,” writes about charter schools and how debate about public
schools vs. charter schools in New York City might be a sign of the future in
education – or in education politics – in a recent USA Today newspaper column.
SBISD’s
SKY Partnership includes the KIPP Courage College Prep at Landrum Middle School
program and YES Prep Northbrook at Northbrook Middle School. These two programs
operate alongside traditional middle school programs, and in some areas like
fine arts and sports they are combined.
“In
recent years these top charters have shown they can partner with regular school
districts in ways that help both. If (New York City Mayor Bill) de Blasio ever
visited schools in Denver or the Spring Branch district in Houston, he might
start rethinking his hostility toward charters, They could help him achieve his
goal of narrowing the gap between the haves and have-nots,” Whitmire states in
the
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