Karen Skoken is a retired high school math tutor who reached out to Communities In Schools of North Texas at Northwest High School to offer math tutoring services. Karen uses her valuable skills to tutor four to six students every week. She is able to help students with homework completion, studying for tests, mastering new […]

Len is one of the bravest students I know. She is a ninth grader at Lewisville High School-Killough Campus. This is Len’s first year in America, and she has embraced high school’s challenges and opportunities with an open mind and a smile on her face. Len came into my office in September and told me […]

Today’s brag goes out to Morgan, a fourth grade student at Rockbrook Elementary in Lewisville ISD. She has been struggling a lot in math, specifically division, so we decided to incorporate math into a game. This allowed for us to have fun and have active learning at the same time. Our activity involved us playing […]

An innovative group that I’ve seen implemented through the CIS Model is the Guitar Club, run by Joaquin Urby, Site Coordinator at Chisholm Trail Middle School in Northwest ISD. The goal of Guitar Club was to build self-esteem and confidence for a group of five kids by learning to play the guitar. Urby purchased five […]

Gary Vickery began as a mentor at Lee Elementary in the Communities In Schools of North Texas Afterschool Centers on Education (ACE) program in January. He was initially paired with a fourth grade student, but after two weeks of meeting with his mentee, the student moved to a different school. Gary still expressed interest in […]

Allen, an eighth grader at Lake Dallas Middle School, joined the Communities In Schools of North Texas program in October 2014. He is one of my students that fully utilizes the CIS program. Allen referred himself to CIS to help him with family conflict and career and college readiness. He was part of our first […]