Houston Annenberg Challenge

During the 2001-2002 school year, the Houston Annenberg Challenge provided more than four million dollars in direct grants to 88 schools in six school districts. The grants were used to fund whole school reform efforts aimed at meeting at least one of the three Annenberg imperatives: personalizing the learning environment, reducing isolation and providing ongoing professional teacher development opportunities in content areas.

Since its inception in 1997, Houston Annenberg has provided more than nineteen million dollars in direct grants to these 88 schools in Alief, Aldine, Houston, Humble, North Forest and Spring Branch ISD's. Scott Elementary School is among the eleven Beacon Schools.

Scott Elementary School: Annenberg Beacon School The Sights and Sounds of Literacy

Leadership as a Annenberg Beacon School within the feeder pattern with Concord and Atherton Elementary Schools (both Annenberg Floodlight Schools) establishing the North Region Reading Collaborative and resulting in additional funding in support of literacy.

Scott Elementary School enjoys a broad base of support from their partners such as Baker & Botts law firm, DARE program, Communities in Schools, and Junior Achievement. These programs provide a positive impact upon teaching and learning.

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Isolation

The campus will work systemically to break down the isolation within the school, between schools, and among schools and the families and community. Through a multifaceted program of public involvement, Scott Elementary School has developed and refined its home-school-community program. The school has experienced success in breaking down barriers of isolation by providing continuity through such projects as the Scott Project Reconnect Parent Center, the on-site Communities in Schools program and the recognized strong business school partnership with the Baker and Botts law firm.

Size

The campus will create personalized learning environments and organize all dimensions of its size, structure, resources, and space/time, so that teachers can know each child well. Teachers will use this knowledge to set high academic expectations for each child and shape his or her education to achieve those goals.

Teacher Learning

The campus will support a wide variety of efforts to include the principal and staff to build a strong knowledge base and leadership capacity at the school level so that investment in teachers and school-wide reform will have a realistic hope of increasing children's learning.

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