This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
I am a high school social studies teacher in an inner-city Houston school. Many of our students have been hit by the devastation as a result of Hurricane Harvey. In addition, I am working in a brand-new program at our school designed to help those students who have fallen 2-3 years behind to get back on track in order to graduate with their class. Many of the students we serve in our program, Project Beyond Belief, fare additional struggles because they are teen parents, living in a non-traditional family situation, and are often the breadwinners for their families. These kids have not been successful in the traditional school setting.
We at CHS sought to remedy this situation by creating a non-traditional program that will ensure student success!
These students rotate between 4 core area teachers (English, Math, Science, and Social Studies) to receive face-to-face instruction, support for online credit recovery courses during the day, and instruction from a graduation coach. Additionally, the program focuses on social skills and emotional well-being. Other staff within our program are two dropout prevention specialists, social workers, and counselors.
My Project
The students in PBB (Project Beyond Belief) are high schoolers who are, for various reasons, 2-3 years behind. These students are part of a brand new program called PBB. We are a one-to-one device school; however, our classroom lacks the technology for us, as teachers, to show students videos, power points, or anything, for that matter, as a whole group. It is very difficult to use technology when we are not able to show the group as a whole where we want them to be and what we want them to see. If we had a SMART TV, we would be able to use our laptops to show students teacher-created power points, videos, and other websites of importance for our subject areas. This SMART TV will be utilized by both the social studies and language arts teachers in our program. Please consider helping us to fund this project to ensure our students' success!!
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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