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Texas Association of Partners in Education
"Connecting Volunteers, Communities and Businesses to School"
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2008 TAPE
Education Partnership Award Winners
The Texas Association of Partners in Education recognizes exemplary partners and partnership programs annually in seven categories/groups that benefit our schools: Parent Involvement, Community, Corporate/Business, Government Agency, Collegiate, Outstanding Sports, and Media. In addition, Individual Awards are given in four categories: Top Adult Volunteer, Youth Volunteer, Partnership Liaison, and Senior Volunteer. Awards are given to small, medium, and large districts on two levels: Crystal Award—one per district size/category (an engraved crystal vase); and Gold Award—up to three winners per district size/category (a personalized, mounted gold certificate). Nominations are judged by an independent panel of representatives from across Texas.
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Medium District
Large Business
Gold – EDS, Hurst Euless Bedford ISD, The EDS volunteers who present Junior Achievement are positive role models who instill the basic belief of integrity, ethics, responsibility and excellence in our students. They prompt students to think about what they want to be when they grow up and how making good choices today impacts their future. With their commitment to the Christmas Providers Food Drive, the Angel Tree and all of the other charitable acts, our students are able to see the benefits of helping others and learn the importance of giving. Since EDS has been involved with our school, student volunteer hours have greatly increased, with teams of kids staying after school to help staff.
Gold – Hyatt Regency DFW Student Internship, Hurst Euless Bedford ISD, The internship relationship with the Hyatt allows senior Culinary Arts students to gain experience in a large working facility in a corporate environment. Each student spends approximately 175 hours for all three trimesters. The students are rotated through all of the Hyatt kitchens gaining experience in banquet and catering, room service, baking and pastry, and the traditional restaurant. This allows the students to learn and work along side some of the top corporate chefs in the nation in all aspects of hotel food service, as well as learning the organization of a large kitchen.
Gold – Memorial Herman Baptist Hospital Beaumont: Ensuring a Healthy and Successful Beaumont ISD, Beaumont ISD, The School/Business Partnership spans over 15 years with Regina-Howell Elementary, but over the last two years, the Hospital has strengthened its partnership to include a high school medical magnet program, a fitness program for staff and support for Insure-a-Kid. In other words, the Hospital has committed to ensure academic success, fulfill a shortage for medical personnel and show staff and students how to be healthy.
Crystal – Texas Instruments Math Forward, Richardson ISD, In 2004, Texas Instruments and Richardson ISD agreed to a partnership that is now changing the face of middle school mathematics education. Why this partnership? For TI it was the desire to have a positive impact on children now while helping to better educate the workforce for the future. For Richardson it was about the desire to eliminate the achievement gap, to prepare students for the demands of high school, and to help students become more competitive in the world job market.
Large District
Local Business
Crystal – Station & Ayers Insurance Planning Services, Cypress Fairbanks ISD, For the past ten years, Ed Station has contributed an infinite amount to Francone Elementary. His unending support of the staff, as well as the students, is phenomenal. He has made monetary donations to Francone, which has enabled us to reward the staff for a much needed “job well-done”. He is always ready to provide any support that is needed.Small Business
Gold – Credit Union Acceptance Company (CUAC), Cypress Fairbanks ISD, The Emmott Elementary VIPS program is so lucky to have found the wonderful people of CUAC! This company eagerly responded to the call for help at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year when “bus buddies” were being sought. They willingly provided volunteers to ride the busses for the first week of school. At the end of the week, the volunteers extended an offer to help throughout the year. As a result, we now have CUAC volunteers signed up to bring Junior Achievement into classes at Emmott.
Crystal – Archer-Chrysler-Jeep-Suzuki, Fort Bend ISD, The partnership between Archer Chrysler-Jeep-Suzuki and Fort Bend ISD’s Technical Education Center’s Automotive Technology Program prepares students with relevant skills for the highly-technical automotive industry. Archer Chrysler-Jeep-Suzuki fully supports the academic achievement of students and ensures that qualified students enter into its paid apprentice program during the summer and their senior year of high school as automotive technician interns. These students eventually become employed at the automobile dealership. For the past four years, ACJS has selected FBISD students to enter its Chrysler Apprenticeship program and has supported the AYES (Automotive Youth Educational Systems) program at the school through mentoring and in other capacities.
Medium Business
Crystal – Bus Volunteers/Cy-Fair Credit Union, Cypress Fairbanks ISD, The Cy-Fair Credit Union volunteered 15 employees to ride our fifteen school buses for the first five days of the 2007-08 school year. The volunteers greeted students and checked to make sure they were getting on the correct bus and rode the bus to make sure each student got off at the correct stop. They were a second ears and eyes for not only the bus driver but for the school staff.
Large Business
Gold – Harcourt Assessment, Northside ISD, Working together with Villarreal Elementary, a Title I school, they devised a plan to create an
e-mentoring program in which students would be matched with Harcourt employees and communicate via e-mail. After a quick recruiting effort,
more than 60 Harcourt employees became Harcourt Heroes and members of the Harcourt Team of Technical Partners (HTTP).
Crystal – National Semiconductor, Arlington ISD, National Semiconductor has been a longstanding community partner for the Arlington Independent School District, specifically focusing on ways to help students embrace the magic and creativity of science. National Semiconductor’s signature initiatives since 2000 have been the Internet Innovator Awards, the Science in Action initiative and a $250,000 grant to the AISD for Full Option Science System
(FOSS) science curriculum kits.
Texas Government Agency Partnership
Medium District
Gold – Town of Addison, Carrolton-Farmers Branch ISD, Since the 1997-1998 school year, the Town of Addison has generously contributed to the Communities in Schools Dallas Region (CISDR) program at Janie Stark Elementary School in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. Last year the Town of Addison expanded their support to include a CFBISD primary school. With the significant support of the Town of Addison over the last ten years, CISDR was able to place professional staff on-site to provide one-on-one case management to the at-risk children at these schools.
Crystal – City of Lubbock Water Utilities, Lubbock ISD, The City of Lubbock Water Utilities department has partnered with Lubbock ISD to assist in teaching students K- 12 the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling. For more than ten years, the department employees have come into classrooms to teach programs specifically tailored for each grade. The program begins at an early age and reinforces the message of conservation throughout their public school years. When Lubbock ISD students graduate they have a better appreciation of our natural resources.
Large District
Gold – Federal Reserve Bank – Houston Office, Houston ISD, This year, the Federal Reserve Bank – Houston Office is celebrating its 20th anniversary as the dynamic partner with the same school, Sherman Elementary School! This is the longest continuous partnership with an elementary School in HISD. The partnership activities now include a school supply and uniform drive, pen pal lunch, an annual essay contest focusing on economic issues, participating in the Fall Festival, a field trip to visit the Bank, Career Day, and TAKS pep rally with encouragement cards and goody bags. Volunteers also serve as judges for special events at the school such as the College Day Door Contest and Spelling Bee.
Crystal – Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office, Fort Bend ISD, Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office deputies impact students at various grade levels. Last year, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office deputies educated nearly 4,000 fifth graders through its Kids & Cops Program; 5,000 fourth-graders though Now That You’re 10, 5,100 sixth graders who took part in the Consequences program, and 20,000 high school students during its presentation on Crossing the Line. In all, 34,100 students have gained knowledge in safety issues and juvenile law in one year.
Texas Collegiate Partnership
Medium District
Gold – Ramirez Rooks Chess Club, Ramirez Charter School, Lubbock ISD, The Texas Tech Chess Club comes to Ramirez Charter School to hold a free after-school chess club. The Ramirez Rooks chess club has grown tremendously over the last couple of years. This after-school club is unique in that it allows any student to participate in the sport no matter their physical or mental abilities. The students have competed against area chess players as well as in the first ever online tournament with an elementary school class from Iceland.
Crystal – McLennan Community College, Waco ISD, McLennan Community College (MCC) has been a partner at Waco High School since 2000. The focus of this partnership is career awareness and college preparedness and MCC is attentive to all aspects of preparing students for the future. MCC sponsors WHS “Fish Camp” to welcome incoming freshmen and give them the tools they need to succeed in high school. MCC provides speakers to teach students how to find and interview for jobs, apply for entrance in to college, and how to locate and access available scholarships and financial aid; brings in speakers from the college and hosts many activities that allow students to travel to the campus to see first-hand what college is like; hosts and sponsors the WHS “Summer Success Camp” and helps provide at- risk students with additional study skills during the summer months in order to prepare them for the up-coming year.
Large District
Gold – Houston Community College, Construction Trade Academy, Houston ISD, In collaboration with HISD and with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Houston Community College created a new opportunity to help HISD student obtain a head start in the booming field of construction technology. In the fall of 2006, the Construction Academy - a three-year program for sophomores, juniors, and seniors that incorporates core academic subjects and computer applications within the context of construction was opened.
Crystal – M.D. Anderson Center for Research and Minority Health, Fort Bend ISD, As one of the premier research facilities in the nation, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Hospital's Center for Research & Minority Health (CMRH), makes investments in the future of Hightower High School students every day. In addition to conducting cancer research, training physicians and treating various types of cancer, the teaching arm of the hospital has world-renowned researchers and doctors who mentor 60 Hightower High School Medical Academy students in 20 facets of the hospital’s operations every school year.
Texas Top Sports Partnership
Small District
Crystal – Austin Toros School House Jam, Bastrop ISD, Austin Toros invited approximately 1300 third- seventh grade students from the Bastrop ISD to the Austin Toro’s 1st School House Jam Game. Each School was provided with tickets for students and staff. This was a very special treat for all of the students involved. This event offered selected students the opportunity to see a pro basketball game and receive free educational workbooks (which included exercise tips, math games, word searches, etc.)
Medium District
Crystal – Texas Tech University Basketball Program, Knight Readers, Lubbock ISD, A love of reading lasts a lifetime. Knight Readers began in 1994 with Texas Tech Basketball Coach Bob Knight and Senior Associate Athletic Director Steve Downing. Coach Knight has a love for reading that developed at an early age. Through this program, he is passing his enjoyment for books on to students by encouraging them to read. The program sparks participation by providing incentives to students to read inside as well as outside of the classroom
.Large District
Crystal – Houston Comets, Houston ISD, Concerned about the health and physical condition of young people, the Comets awarded students with WNBA bags containing prizes and gifts, as well as information about health, wellness and nutrition. The health-related materials were for teachers’ use for their lessons upon returning to their classrooms and for students in their everyday lives. The WNBA affinity bags served as both incentives and reminders to students to take care of their bodies, exercise regularly, and eat nutritious foods.
Texas Top Media Award
Large District
Crystal – The Houston Chronicle, The Chronicle in Education Program, Houston ISD, The Chronicle in Education program, sponsored by the Houston Chronicle, has been in existence since 1958. It is the cornerstone of the comprehensive Houston Chronicle partnership with the Houston Independent School (HISD). CIE unites HISD teachers in a partnership to improve literacy of school-age children. The partnership activities are focused on the Houston Chronicle newspaper (starting in 2007-2008 the E-Edition), professional development opportunities for teachers, and student materials, activities and contests, as well as educational field trips. All of these components of the partnership provide creative ways to inspire students to learn, help teachers meet TEK objectives, and develop critical thinking skills in students.
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