Breakthrough Houston believes in #EducationForAll. Our primary focus is to prepare students for competitive high schools and college – but our support doesn’t end there! Recently we caught up with some of our 2019 graduates to see how they’re enjoying college life and...
By: ZaDarius Webber Breakthrough Houston Teaching Fellow at GLEC, Summer 2019 Celebrate Good Times, Come-on! Pre-Celebration Two weeks before we received our students, Ms. JoAnna announced what elective each teaching fellow would be teaching....
By: Brian Rivera Breakthrough Houston Teaching Fellow at Connect, Summer 2019 My Favorite Teacher College graduation is less than one year away for me and, when I reflect on how I arrived at this point, I recognize I would not be in this position without the...
By: Erica Barnes Current Breakthrough Houston Teaching Fellow at Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (GLEC); Breakthrough Atlanta Teaching Fellow, Summer 2018 How did we get here? Last summer, I left the Hot Peach City, also known as Atlanta, GA, on July 25, 2018,...
By: Nazirah Ahmad Breakthrough Houston Teaching Fellow at Connect and Junior at Howard University For the past two weeks, I have had the amazing privilege of teaching 8th grade Writing with Breakthrough Houston at Connect! At the end of my high school career, I...
By: Hannah Hsu Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Houston at SJS I often feel like I’m in a kids’ TV show: Every aspect carefully crafted and planned with great intentionality, packed with movement and engagement, repetition of routines and structure, cheers,...
