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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Beck...
Thursday, May 21 at 5:00pm
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Houston A+ Challenge Chase Bank is giving $$ to your favorite local nonprofit ... why not Houston A+ Challenge? Tis the season! (To vote, click the link below and search for our name.)
It can be incredibly rewarding when your vote has a local impact. Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and needs you to help pick which ones. Simply vote for your favorite nonprofit and then get friends and others on Facebook to do the same. You can select from over 500,000 charities that focus on educa...tion, healthcare, housing, environmental issues, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services, and animal welfare. Give your charity the recognition it deserves and needs with Chase Community Giving. It's a new Way Forward for giving. See the Official Rules http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules for complete eligibility requirements.
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New video interviews with Kent Peterson, Lorraine Monroe, more national speakers: http://www.houstonaplus.org/videos/natio
Houston A+ Challenge Thanks to all who attended and provided support for "The Power of the Network", our first-ever benefit dinner. Check out our photos from the event!
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Houston A+ Challenge Looking for straightforward, implementation-focused descriptions of what's working in public schools across Texas?
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The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has established an online clearinghouse of information related to best practices of high-performing and highly efficient campuses, school districts, and charter schools ...
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Released October 2009 Teacher and Learning in Action. Read it here, http://www.houstonaplus.org/newsletter/t
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Fund for Teachers Grants
Unlike
other educational grants, Fund for Teachers gives teachers the freedom
to design an experience that will most impact their lives, their
profession, and their community.
Maximum Award:
$5000-$10,000
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Unlike other educational grants, Fund for Teachers gives teachers the freedom to design an experience that will most impact their lives, their profession, and their community.
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Low Risk, High Reward with Financial Literacy Game
A study from Learning Point Associates details how a stock market game created in the 1970s by the New York City-based Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association improves both student mathematic skills and financial literacy knowledge.
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Added 10 New Grant Opportunites offering over $33,000 in awards:
Freedom Foundation: Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education
American School Board Journal: Magna Awards
AAPT: Barbara Lotze Scholarships for Future Teachers
IRA: Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant
Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln Fellowshi...p Program
Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant prog...ram
Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers
CVS Caremark Community Grants
Teach Awards Change To Teach@15
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Houston A+ Challenge is so proud of the teachers, principals, senior staff, board members, students and parents of Aldine ISD ... congratulations!!
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The Aldine Independent School District was named the national winner of the Broad Prize for Urban Education. The announcement was made in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the U.S. Capitol’s Congressional Auditorium.
Houston A+ Challenge Has your teaching, learning, or leadership been impacted through working with Houston A+ Challenge? We're collecting stories for our Oct. 13 benefit dinner.
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Has your teaching, learning or leadership been impacted through working with Houston A+ Challenge? Has your school or district improved collaboration through the A+ network? On October 13, Houston A+ Challenge will host our first-ever benefit dinner, The
Houston A+ Challenge is hoping Michael Fullan's concept of "collaborative competition" takes root in Houston.
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Internationally renowned education researcher and author Michael Fullan spends a few minutes with Houston A+ Challenge, a nonprofit dedicated to improving public education in Houston, TX.
Houston A+ Challenge is proud to introduce 19 aspiring principals in our Regional Principal Leadership Academy cohort II. Selected from over 250 applicants ... these are the new faces of education!
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“To generate the much needed momentum and urgency for change, people need to fully understand the ‘why’ behind the journey they are beginning.”– Tony Wagner, Change LeadershipIn Spring 2009, more than ...
Houston A+ Challenge is pondering the conditions needed to make "turnaround schools" a reality. This just in from Wallace Foundation/SREB:
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(July 2009) The Southern Regional Education Board offers school districts seven ways to improve the working conditions of principals so that they can better support learning.
Houston A+ Challenge Our lastest newsletter is ready ... chock full of interesting morsels.
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Teachers spend a week in the workforce, principals learn to be better leaders, schools reflect on the challenges and triumphs of whole-school reform ... all this and more in July eNotes!
