While student-teaching to become a bilingual teacher, Georgina Perez found that many children needed help. Perez decided to make a career change and transitioned from education t...

As a child, Michael Francis was captivated by the food industry. He loved to cook and enjoyed seeing how happy food made people. When Francis enrolled at the University of Houst...

As a police officer in Nashville, Tenn., Ryan Beeler began volunteering at an after-school program for underprivileged students. During this time, he realized his true calling was...

After 25 years in Spring Branch ISD, Lisa Calloway reflects on her time as a teacher at Westwood Elementary. “While at Westwood, I have grown as a teacher, a leader and a person...

At 17 years old, Janell Benford began volunteering at The Bridge, a nonprofit organization, where she cared for special needs children. “After school and during the summer, I wo...

After teaching for five years at a private early learning center, Kiersten Caballero applied to become a pre-K teacher at Terrace Elementary. She taught there for a year before mo...

With encouragement and support from Spring Branch Middle School (SBMS) journalism and yearbook teacher Sara Boyle, two seventh-grade students, Aubrey Wilson and Grace Martin, subm...

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston (RMHC-GHG) is generously donating a ‘fuzzy’ type of kindness to students in Spring Branch ISD. Many cross-city conn...

<p> </p> “I really like being in the water,” a Spring Oaks Middle School student said. “It is so relaxing!” Thirty Spring Branch ISD students from four middle scho...

<p> </p> Elementary students at the Spring Branch Academic Institute (SBAI), a school for highly gifted students, are experiencing a wide variety of learning outs...

A prize-winning science teacher at Spring Woods High School has been named a recipient of the Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award, which includes a $25,000 cash prize. Ryan Bee...

Fifth-grade teacher surprised during recent district Convocation event A Terrace Elementary School fifth-grade teacher was named a winner of the Kinder Excellence in Teaching...

Superintendent Dr. Scott Muri (left) and Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award winner Amanda Tysor (second from left) with Teach for America officials For the first t...