Welcome to Browning Elementary

Special Programs

Artist Boat

Browning's collaboration with Artist Boat gives each student an Ecology class every week along with an Eco-Art class where students use their knowledge of Ecology to create works of art such as mosaics, murals, and other public art installations visible around the Browning campus. Creating art about science gives students a chance to create non verbal representations of their knowledge which is an effective research based strategy for improving student achievement. Browning's 5th grade Science TAKS passing rate of 94% shows that our students leave Browning with a strong foundation in science due partly to their experiences with Artist Boat.

Successful For All
Success For All is a comprehensive reading and writing program that requires the restructuring of elementary schools to ensure the success of every child. The program emphasizes prevention and early intervention to anticipate and solve any learning problems. Success for ALL provides schools with research-based curriculum materials; extensive professional development in proven strategies for instruction, assessment, and classroom management; one-on-one tutoring for primary grade children who need it; and active family support interventions.

Project Grad
Project GRAD provides a CIS social worker to each elementary school and teams of
3 to 5 social workers for middle and high schools in the feeder system. These
professionals play key roles:

helping at-risk children attend to problems that might distract them from
learning,
focusing on increasing parent involvement in their children’s academic
success,
providing counseling addressing problems such as truancy, substance abuse,
and family problems, and coordinating tutoring and mentoring programs.

CIS workers play a convening role in the Family Support Team which is a part of the Success For All curriculum.

Head Start
For information regarding this Pre-K program, contact Rosalinda Loza, Director at 713-869-1684 or by e-mail at rloza@avancehouston.org.

21st Century

The focus of this program is to provide expanded academic enrichment opportunities for children. Tutorial services and academic enrichment activities are designed to help students meet local and state academic standards in subjects such as reading and math. In addition 21st CCLC programs provide youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, technology education programs, art, music and recreation programs, counseling and character education to enhance the academic component of the program.

Critical Friends Groups

A Critical Friends Group is a professional learning community consisting of approximately 8-12 educators who come together voluntarily at least once a month for about 2 hours. Group members are committed to improving their practice through collaborative learning.

Teacher Collaborative Groups

Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning (PBL) is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life. In partnership with business and educators, Junior Achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential.