Student Internships and Externships

Response from “Ask a Former Board Trustee”- Clear Creek ISD Chapter: Joanna Baleson, Ken Baliker, Jennifer Broddle, Bob Davee, Glenn Freedman, Ann Hammond, Charlie Pond, Page Rander Dee Scott, Win Weber © AFTCCISD2022 What are student internships and externships? A student internship provides on-the-job training within an organization to learn about a given profession or […]

Classroom Leadership

Response from “Ask a Former Board Trustee”- Clear Creek ISD Chapter: Joanna Baleson, Ken Baliker, Jennifer Broddle, Bob Davee, Glenn Freedman, Ann Hammond, Charlie Pond, Page Rander Dee Scott, Win Weber © AFTCCISD2022 What is a classroom leadership moment? The average teacher makes around 1,500 educational decisions on an average day. That is about 4 […]

Schertz-Cibolo-University City ISD Recognizes Teacher

Schertz- Cibolo-Universal City ISD Social Studies teacher inspires her junior high school students to embrace history with excitement. Corbett Junior High School teacher Alyssa Ferdarko’s learning curve as a rookie Social Studies teacher may have looked steep at the outset of her career when it began in August of 2022. However, if you walk into […]

Edgewood ISD Teacher Brings Agility Course to Campus

Edgewood ISD‘s community grant at ET Wrenn Middle School made it possible for a teacher to install an exciting agility course for their students. E.T. Wrenn Middle School Special Education teacher, Ms. Berachis Oatis, wanted to find another outlet for her students to express their energy and frustrations. She had heard of the Blue Cares […]

Floresville ISD Teacher Gives Back on her Birthday

For the past six years Kathy Silva has collected donations in honor of her birthday (February 5th) for Children’s Alliance of South Texas (CAST), a Child Advocacy Center. We are in awe of the great work Mrs. Silva and her class have done to collect donations for the Children’s Alliance of South Texas. Every year […]

Southside ISD Teachers Participate in Project-Based Learning Workshop

Southside ISD Teachers Participate in Project-Based Learning Workshop at Rice University Teachers at Southside ISD participate in a learning workshop at Rice University. Teachers often learn as much as they  teach, and three Southside ISD teachers  experienced a “once-in-a-lifetime” professional development workshop at Rice University. Nellie Olvera, a first grade teacher at Freedom Elementary, and […]

Alvin ISD Teacher Creates Sanitizer Station

Alvin Teacher Creates Sanitizer Station Alvin ISD teacher Ashley Martin built a hands-free sanitizer station for her classroom.  The third-grade teacher envisioned her young students wasting large amounts of sanitizer by using too much.  She imagined they might also contaminate the sanitizer pump bottles.  A fellow teacher inspired her to begin thinking of a solution. Martin […]