HISD juniors awarded grant to visit Great Britain this summer
Four HISD students will travel free to Great Britain this summer, thanks to the British Foundation of Texas’s (BAFTX) Junior Achievers award. The students will travel for nearly two weeks learning...
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Students produce April Fools’ Day issue of school newspaper
Click on the image to enlarge. “President Obama visits Lee High School and awards teacher ‘Hipster of the Year’” reads the headline on the first page of “The Traveler,” Lee High School’s student...
View ArticleHISD students to learn about finance at Rice Summer Business Institute
Rice University has chosen 21 HISD juniors and seniors to attend the 2015 Rice Summer Business Institute (RSBI). The program is designed to broaden the expectations of students from low and moderate...
View ArticleLeland Kibbutzim internship to broaden HISD students’ perspective
Ten HISD students will be travelling to Israel this summer to experience life on a kibbutz. Every summer since 1980, the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation has sent high school juniors who...
View ArticleDeBakey tops Children at Risk’s list of best Houston high schools for sixth...
Reagan HS, Pilgrim Academy, and 20 other campuses also rated ‘Gold Ribbon’ schools Children at Risk released its annual list of the top schools in the greater Houston area on April 27, and for the...
View ArticleHelp pick the ‘Fan Favorite’ among HISD campus Teachers of the Year
Winner to be announced May 15 at Celebration of Excellence New this year at the HISD Celebration of Excellence is the Fan Favorite award. Over the past week, HISD staff, students, and alumni have been...
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Reagan HS drill team dethrones 14-year champion at national competition
It took the Rough Riders almost 50 years to do it, but on May 4, 2015, they finally succeeding in winning the top prize in a division of the National High School Drill Team Championships, which take...
View ArticleReagan HS educator spotlighted for great instructional practices
Reagan High School English teacher Ina Knight was recently “Caught in the Act” of great instruction during a lesson on the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet. An HISD video crew, along with Secondary...
View ArticleNine schools to participate in Marching Band Festival Oct. 6
Nine HISD high school bands will be strutting their stuff in the district’s eighth annual Marching Band Festival on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The festival gives bands the opportunity to receive feedback on...
View ArticleHISD Board of Education to consider resolution beginning process of renaming...
The Houston Independent School District Board of Education on Thursday is expected to consider a resolution that would begin the process of renaming schools in order to represent the values and...
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Student creativity to be on mobile display at Art Car Parade April 9
The Orange Show’s 29th annual Art Car Parade will be rolling through downtown Houston on Saturday, April 9, and almost a dozen of the mobile artworks on display will be the work of HISD students. Two...
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Five HISD student-created cars win prizes at the Art Car Parade
Five HISD schools won prizes in Saturday’s 29th annual Art Car Parade in downtown Houston, with district-created student art cars snagging two of the four “first-place” winning categories in overall...
View ArticleHISD juniors awarded grant to visit Great Britain this summer
Four HISD students will travel free to Great Britain this summer, thanks to the British Foundation of Texas’s (BAFTX) Junior Achievers award. The students will travel for nearly two weeks learning...
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Students produce April Fools’ Day issue of school newspaper
Click on the image to enlarge. “President Obama visits Lee High School and awards teacher ‘Hipster of the Year’” reads the headline on the first page of “The Traveler,” Lee High School’s student...
View ArticleHISD students to learn about finance at Rice Summer Business Institute
Rice University has chosen 21 HISD juniors and seniors to attend the 2015 Rice Summer Business Institute (RSBI). The program is designed to broaden the expectations of students from low and moderate...
View ArticleLeland Kibbutzim internship to broaden HISD students’ perspective
Ten HISD students will be travelling to Israel this summer to experience life on a kibbutz. Every summer since 1980, the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation has sent high school juniors who...
View ArticleDeBakey tops Children at Risk’s list of best Houston high schools for sixth...
Reagan HS, Pilgrim Academy, and 20 other campuses also rated ‘Gold Ribbon’ schools Children at Risk released its annual list of the top schools in the greater Houston area on April 27, and for the...
View ArticleHelp pick the ‘Fan Favorite’ among HISD campus Teachers of the Year
Winner to be announced May 15 at Celebration of Excellence New this year at the HISD Celebration of Excellence is the Fan Favorite award. Over the past week, HISD staff, students, and alumni have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reagan HS drill team dethrones 14-year champion at national competition
It took the Rough Riders almost 50 years to do it, but on May 4, 2015, they finally succeeding in winning the top prize in a division of the National High School Drill Team Championships, which take...
View ArticleReagan HS educator spotlighted for great instructional practices
Reagan High School English teacher Ina Knight was recently “Caught in the Act” of great instruction during a lesson on the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet. An HISD video crew, along with Secondary...
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