Communities Foundation of Texas hosted a red carpet launch party featuring short films from a recent partnership with Educate Texas and Teaching Channel Wednesday, Nov. 18, at CFT in Dallas.
The videos will help educate and inspire other teachers around Texas and throughout the nation. The Nov. 18 launch event premiered the second series of short films from Educate Texas highlighting best practices in teaching for middle school students.
The videos star local teachers and school leaders who were funded through CFT’s Community Impact grants to benefit teachers serving local at-risk middle school youth. The videos were made for the series “Creating Success in Middle School” and are available online at the Teaching Channel website as a professional development resource for teachers across the country.
One of the teachers featured was Garland ISD’s Barbara McCoy of Webb Middle School who is a recipient of a CFT grant to UTeach Dallas.
The other Dallas area teachers featured in the short films include: Daniel Knoll and Brittany Williams of KIPP Truth Academy in Oak Cliff; Anne Mechler of Momentous Institute in Oak Cliff; Edgar Vazquez and Jeremy Yager of Uplift Grand Preparatory in Grand Prairie; and Adriane Davis of Dallas Environmental Science Academy in West Dallas (a recipient of a CFT grant to the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation, or NAPE).
Photo: l-r: Katie Donaldson of UTeach Dallas, Monica Egert Smith of Communities Foundation of Texas and Barbara McCoy of Webb Middle School in Garland.
Photo: l-r: Daniel Knoll and Brittany Williams of KIPP Truth Academy in Oak Cliff; Barbara McCoy of Webb Middle School in Garland; Anne Melcher of Momentous Institute; Adriane Davis of Dallas Environmental Science Academy; Edgar Vazquez and Jeremy Yager of Uplift Grand Preparatory in Grand Prairie.