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Uplift North Hills scholar, Monica Orozco has made many accomplishment this summer starting with developing her nonprofit Gift of Reading. Gift of Reading is a nonprofit that promotes servant leadership, literacy and a love of reading through book ownership. Monica, 7th grader, has been working towards her goal of becoming an entrepreneur for seven years […]
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Uplift North Hills will represent Irving and Uplift at the Destination Imagination global finals for the first time. Destination Imagination (DI) is a hands-on program where students take part in a challenge in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. The Uplift North Hills team decided on service learning. Team members […]
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Months of scholar research, trials and data culminated at the annual Uplift Science Fair. Over 200 scholars from all campuses across Uplift Education took part in the network-wide Science Fair on Saturday. A total of 163 projects from all grade levels filled the UT Southwestern T Boone Pickens Biomedical building. “Science Fair is a great place for scholars […]
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With a list in hand and close to $2,000, and 12 scholars headed to Target to buy gifts for homeless teens. Uplift Luna Middle School scholars decided for their community service project, they wanted to make an impact with a project “outside of the box”. The scholars had one of the most successful projects in […]
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The Uplift Peak middle school boys and girls basketball teams have been finalized. While their season kicks off in January, 40 scholars who tried out were able to get some preseason help from professionals. The scholars were picked to attend the Jr. NBA clinic during their launch week on Tuesday, October 20. The scholars arrived to […]
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Cody is the Middle School Director at Uplift Heights Middle School and recently completed the Accelerate Institute’s Ryan Fellowship. The program helped Cody develop and refine a high impact strategy that was specific to the Uplift Heights community. While the program kept Cody busy, he says staying busy is something that is important for all lifelong […]
Read MoreSubmitted by guest blogger: Maria Yocom, Network Testing Coordinator, myocom@uplifteducation.org As the school year starts at Uplift, so does our testing season. At Uplift, we know that to truly meet scholars where they are instructionally, we need to have a solid understanding of where scholars are when they come to us in the fall. For […]
Read MoreMikeela Hudson, a sixth grade Spanish teacher at Uplift Summit International Preparatory, is opening doors for her scholars by teaching language instead of Spanish. Some of the scholars in Ms. Hudson’s classroom speak Spanish at home while other scholars only speak English. The result is a multilevel class in which all scholars study the same […]
Read MoreUplift Hampton’s 6th grade science teacher Suzanne Weathers has always had an exceptional singing voice. In high school she attended the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art in New York, one of the most prestigious performing arts high schools in the nation. While she was a vocal artist on the outside, internally there was […]
Read MoreBy all accounts, Uplift Education technology teacher Thomas Davenport is an inspiring teacher, who cultivates a positive learning environment for his scholars. He loves his job now, but he recalls a time when he questioned his choice to teach. He was a first year teacher in another district and found it difficult to enact innovative […]
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