This school year I had the opportunity to work with many wonderful students at Lake Dallas Middle School. To the majority of them, this school year was their first year being a part of the CIS program. This was the case with Hernan. The first time Hernan, an eighth grader, set foot in my CIS […]

Daniel, a senior at Little Elm High School in Little Elm, TX, came to the United States from El Salvador in February of 2013. Daniel made the journey to America alone, leaving his father, mother, and two older sisters behind. He came to the United States as a refugee to join an older brother and […]

I would like to brag on Kiah, a ninth grader at Lewisville High School-Killough Campus, for her resiliency. When I first met Kiah in the fall, she was experiencing a significant amount of stress from family conflict in her home life. I listened and helped Kiah verbally process the changes she was experiencing in her […]

Rod Reeves, Director of Facilities and Construction for Little Elm ISD, is in his first year volunteering as a Communities In Schools of North Texas mentor at Little Elm High School. Rod first began meeting with his student in February and immediately established rapport. He comes for his mentoring sessions on a regular basis and […]

Daniel, a Chin high school mentor, has encouraged a fifth grade boy in a very unique way. At Lakeland Elementary, we have a large population of Chin refugee students that have originated from Burma. With so much transition that happens when a refugee family settles in the United States, these students are in high need […]

In April, Communities In Schools of North Texas at Hedrick Middle School held the first annual “Girls Night Out” event. 20 girls gathered in my office after school and painted their nails, did their hair, and spent girl time talking without phones and tablets. We ate a nice dinner together and then went and then […]

This month I would like to brag on Connie Munoz, our Communities In Schools Social Work Intern at Lewisville High School. Connie began her CIS internship at Lewisville High School in January and hit the ground running. She is a social work intern from Texas Woman’s University. She applied herself to learning the Communities In […]

I would like to recognize two organizations that volunteer for Communities In Schools at Central Elementary in Lewisville ISD. Judy Tanner, who is a member of Garden Ridge Church of Christ, coordinates with her church to provide food baskets for our families on the Food 4 Kids program.  Judy and her husband collected all the […]

The Dazzling Ladies of Sigma Delta Lambda Sorority has made great strides with the girls at Calhoun Middle School in Denton, TX. Individual members of the sorority first came to me to mentor in October and were an absolute blessing to my girls. With their arrival, I now had mentors that many of my students […]