YES Prep Comes to Northbrook High School

By Annette Baird/Memorial Community Extra Published Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Yes Academy and Northbrook High School formed a partnership for the 2015 school session. Anna Caudle, Student Support Counselor, meets with students for information gathering. Photo by Eddy Matchette It was circle time - or more accurately restorative team-building circle time...

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SBISD Seeks New Bus Drivers – Just Like You!

The new school year has begun, but Spring Branch ISD’s Transportation Department is still seeking to add about 20 bus drivers to its team. Come join the SBISD team and find a new career or even a second-career calling! By The Numbers – SBISD Transportation’s First Day: 195 buses rolled out on Monday, Aug. 24  925 routes driven morning and afternoon  8,900...

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Faith Volunteers Create New Parent Center at Spring Woods Middle

Bill Stubbs, Debbi Silber and Dr. Scott Muri, SBISD Superintendent of Schools By early next month, families at Spring Woods Middle School will be enjoying a new Parent Center thanks to volunteers at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church (MDPC) and the eye for stylish detail of renowned interior designer Bill Stubbs. The latest church volunteer project at the middle...

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Back to School Health Fair Offers Up Health Screenings, School Supplies

 An estimated 5,000 Spring Branch ISD students and families were served Saturday, Aug. 22, at the annual Back to School Health Fair event at the Spring Branch Family Development Center, on Pitner Road. Families started lining up around midnight the night before – the line forms earlier each year – in anticipation of health screenings, immunizations and backpacks...

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SBISD Earns National Award from Action Based Learning

Action Based Learning President Jean Blaydes Moize (center) presents the national award to SBISD leaders and teachers during Aug. 24 board meeting. Spring Branch ISD’s longtime support for Action Based Learning (ABL) programs using neuroscience insights to link intentional movement with student learning has earned it ABL’s National Showcase District Award for...

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SBISD’s School Health Advisory Council Honored

Rebecca Fuchs (center left), SBISD director of wellness and elementary counseling, and Lisa Lauter, DSHAC parent co-chair, receive the It’s Time Texas award during the Aug. 24 board meeting along with committee members and senior staff. Spring Branch ISD’s District School Health Advisory Council (DSHAC) is one of five district councils from across the state...

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Demolition of SBEC Underway; Schools Moved Temporarily to East Transition Campus

The excavator has taken a bite out of the Spring Branch Education Center’s long horizontal wing, the one that fronts Westview and has been the façade for SBEC – and Spring Branch High School before it for more than 50 years. Still standing when’s the claw’s work is done will be the auditorium and library from Spring Branch High School, part of the original façade...

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Community Education Fall Classes Start September 8

Community Education Fall classes start September 8, 2015. We are now located at West Support Center 2100 Shadowdale Dr., Suite 2-A Houston, TX  77043 713-251-1695 To register in person, registration dates are as follows: September 1, 9:00-4:00 September 2, 9:00-6:00 September 3, 9:00-6:00 September 5, 9:00-1:00 Please visit the Community Education...

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Bendwood School Teacher Attends Space Camp to Improve Skills

Molly Nipper, a Bendwood School SPIRAL program Gifted and Talented teacher, has returned with new skills and insights after attending the Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy based at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Hundreds of instructors from dozens of nations attended. Molly Nipper, a SPIRAL program Gifted and Talented teacher at the Bendwood...

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Valley Oaks Principal Will Serve As TEPSA Region 4 President-Elect

Gary Henry, principal at Valley Oaks Elementary School in Spring Branch ISD, will serve this school year as Region 4 President-Elect for the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA). He was installed along with several other TEPSA officers during the association’s July Leadership Conference. TEPSA, which has operated since 1917, helps school...

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Spring Branch Education Foundation: Same Great Mission, Cool New Look

As parents and students were updating back-to-school wardrobes, Spring Branch Education Foundation was also rolling out a new look. To celebrate its third successful decade of partnering with Spring Branch ISD, the Foundation unveiled a new logo. “Same mission, new look,” says Lisa Schwartz, chair, SBEF Board of Directors. “The Foundation is committed to funding...

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Metro Revamps Local Bus Routes

Guest blog from Metro: The back-to-school commute for students who take METRO has just gotten better. METRO’s New Bus Network has revamped local bus routes to give our riders straighter, simpler routes that connect students to more places, more often. METRO has three color-coded routes: the red routes, blue route and orange routes. On the frequent red routes, there...

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Stratford High Teacher-Librarian Co-Authors Professional Article

Stratford High School librarian and teacher Lisa Stultz has co-written a professional article about updating secondary school libraries to attract modern teens and promote personal reading. Talk about summer development and growth! Teacher-Librarian Lisa Stultz of Stratford High School became a professional library journal writer during the past few months. A three-page...

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Convocation 2015: Values Keep Every Child the Focus of District’s Work

In they streamed, morning and afternoon, excited and eager to get the school year started. Most had been on campuses for days if not weeks, getting classrooms, buildings, grounds, books and programs ready for the return of students, still over a week away. And if the optimism was palpable before Convocation 2015 got underway, it was positively electric following...

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Staying Safe in Today’s Social Media World

Spring Branch ISD parents and educators will have the opportunity to join together early this fall to become informed on tough issues related to the use of social media and student safety. Social media and internet use national expert Daphne Levenson will speak during a public forum from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the district’s Don Coleman Coliseum, 1150...

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Northbrook High Math Teacher Named Presidential Award Finalist

News Summary A Northbrook High School teacher is one of 10 math and science teachers from across Texas named a finalist for the 2015 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Jonathan Claydon will compete for a $10,000 award as the best teacher in the state. A Northbrook High School calculus and pre-calculus instructor is one...

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Spring Branch ISD Has Recently Named A New Stratford High School Principal

Earlier this year, Robert “Danny” Gex was named as the new principal at Stratford High School. He has 24 years in education, including 12 years in Spring Branch ISD as a teacher and a coach, assistant principal and then associate principal.   Principal Gex earned his bachelor of science degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University, and he later...

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Spring Branch ISD Names New Academy of Choice Program Director

Jill Wright has been named the new program director at the Academy of Choice School. She has 27 years in Spring Branch ISD education serving as an elementary and middle school teacher, assistant and grade-level principal, and as the director of Cornerstone Academy. Director Wright earned a bachelor of science in curriculum and instruction from Texas A&M University...

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SBISD Names New Wildcat Way School for Early Learning Director

Morella Tapia has been named as the new director at the Wildcat Way School for Early Learning. She has 14 years in Spring Branch ISD as an elementary teacher, intervention specialist and assistant principal.  In 2001, Director Tapia earned her bachelor of arts in education from St. Thomas University in Houston. In 2006, she earned a master’s degree in educational...

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Spring Branch ISD Names New Northbrook Middle School Principal

Sarah Guerrero has been named as the new principal at Northbrook Middle School. Sarah has eight years in education serving in Houston ISD as a middle school teacher, assistant principal and principal.  In 2007, Principal Guerrero earned twin bachelor of science degrees in physics and Spanish from Azusa Pacific College in Azusa, Calif. In 2009, she completed...

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SBISD Names New Treasure Forest Elementary School Principal

Aaron Dominguez has been named as the new principal at Treasure Forest Elementary School. Aaron has 14 years in education including seven years in Houston ISD serving as an elementary school principal and a middle school dean of students.  In 2001, Principal Dominguez earned a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education from University of Texas in Austin....

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Spring Branch ISD Names New Spring Woods Middle School Principal

Deborah Silber has been named as the new principal at Spring Woods Middle School. Deborah has 17 years of teaching and administrative experience in Spring Branch and Houston ISDs. For the past two years, she served as an associate principal at Spring Woods High School. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Ms. Silber attended primary and secondary Jewish schools there. After...

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SBISD Names New Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) Leader

Kedrick Lookadoo has been named the new principal/director at Spring Branch ISD’s Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) campus. Director Lookadoo has 13 years of experience in public education in a variety of positions in Cypress Fairbanks ISD. He taught math and science for six years at Matzke Elementary, spent two years as an instructional specialist...

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Spring Branch ISD Names New Pine Shadows Elementary Principal

Chris Winstead has been named the new principal at Pine Shadows Elementary School. She has 45 years of teaching and administrative experience, and has taught in private schools and at regional universities and community colleges. Principal Winstead served as assistant principal at Pine Shadows Elementary for the past three years. Before that, she taught as an adjunct...

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