Color coordinated T-shirts, songs, more songs, choreography, marching bands and cheerleaders: Wednesday morning was a pull-out-all-the-stops event at Houston ISD’s Delmar Fieldhouse – a concept as big and huge, some would say, as HISD Superintendent Mike Miles’ vision for the district. The invitation-only event to HISD educators (mostly drawn from.
Color coordinated T-shirts, songs, more songs, choreography, marching bands and cheerleaders: Wednesday morning was a pull-out-all-the-stops event at Houston ISD’s Delmar Fieldhouse – a concept as big and huge, some would say, as HISD Superintendent Mike Miles ’ vision for the district.
If the preliminary numbers hold and Miles believes they will, then in the space of a year, HISD will have gone from 121 campuses rated D or F down to 41 schools as rated by the Texas Education Agency. By the way, the kids were very impressive singing and dancing up a storm. If HISD is going to continue doing these shows at convocation, we suggest they invite artistic directors from Houston's local theater companies that do a lot of musicals — we're thinking Stages and Theatre Under the Stars here — because young talent is right here, right now.
Delving into his power point graphics, Miles said that among NES schools, the number of “D” and “F” schools dropped nearly 80 percent – from 63 schools to 14, Miles said." And 33 F schools to 2. I don’t think you’re going to see that ratio anywhere in the state for this year.” Students will have a chance to share in the celebration at the end of the first week of school when on Friday, August 16, for 30 minutes to an hour they’ll take a break from their studies to enjoy ice cream or popsicles.
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