• CenterPoint Energy – CASE for Kids – All-Earth Ecobot Challenge
  CenterPoint Energy awarded $5,000 to CASE for Kids to support the All-Earth Ecobot Challenge. The project will serve 350 students in 4th-8th grades to help them develop skills in STEM subjects, problem-solving and teamwork. The project also seeks to increase awareness and interest in STEM careers.
  
  
• Henderson Foundation – CASE for Kids – All-Earth Ecobot Challenge
  Henderson Foundation awarded $2,500 to support CASE for Kids’ All-Earth Ecobot Challenge. The project will serve 350 students in 4th-8th grades to help them develop skills in STEM subjects, problem-solving and teamwork. The project also seeks to increase awareness and interest in STEM careers.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (DHHS) – Early Head Start / Head Start Continuation
  DHHS awarded $12,375,192 to Head Start for program operations and training and technical assistance.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services – Head Start Humble Campus
  DHHS awarded $1,829,348 to Head Start for revision facilities at its Humble campus.
  
  
• Garden Know How – ABS West Gardening Program – The Knights Kontainer Garden
  Gardening Know How awarded $1,000 to ABS-West’s (Schools Division) for its gardening program. By growing fruits and vegetables, ABS-West’s students with disabilities will better understand where their food comes from and gain more positive food attitudes. They also increase fine and gross motor skills by planting and digging and learn responsibility and ways to care for the environment.
  
  
• ExpandEd/Every Hour Counts – CASE for Kids – Middle School Social-Emotional Learning
  ExpandEd Schools/Every Hour Counts awarded $58,348.50 to CASE for Kids for the Middle School Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Initiative. The program will build capacity of teachers and community educators to address the SEL needs of students at four campuses in Alief, Humble and Galena Park ISDs. The program will train 32 teachers, over 100 community educators, and serve up to 240 students.
  
  
• H-E-B – Teaching and Learning Center – Early Childhood Winter Conference
  H-E-B awarded $500 to the Teaching and Learning Center for the 36th Annual R.T. Garcia Early Childhood Winter Conference. The conference provides high quality, affordable professional development to approximately 1,000 educators that serve young children, aged 3 to 8. The full-day event features over 50 breakout sessions that range from early childhood, mindfulness in literacy, math/science, social and emotional development, culturally responsive bilingual early literacy interventions and intentionality in the Pre-K classroom by nationally known keynote and featured speakers.
  
  
• Youth Gardening Grant – ABS-West – The Knights Kontainer Garden
  Youth Gardening Grant awarded $1,000 to ABS-West for its Knights Kontainer Gardening Program. The funds will assist 32 students, ages 5-18+, with their gardening activities.
  
  
• KidsGardening and The Scott Miracle-Gro – Head Start – Tidwell Campus Gardens
  KidsGarden and The Scott Miracle-Gro awarded $1,500 to support Head Start’s Healthy Living Garden Project at the Tidwell Head Start campus. This is a school garden program that uses food and nutrition education to teach the importance of healthy lifestyles to preschoolers, families, and the community. Funding benefits 28 unduplicated students and families during the 2021-2022 school year.
  
  
• Dollar General Literacy Foundation – Summer Reading Program – ABS-East & ABS-West
  Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded $2,900 to the Schools Division ABS-East and West’s Leaders as Readers Summer Reading program. The reading program will serve 90 students.
  
  
• Texas Workforce Commission – Adult Education & Literacy Employer – Adult Education
  Texas Workforce Commission awarded $390,243 to Adult Education to implement an Integrated Education and Training-Workforce Literacy (IET-WL) pilot program by developing curricula for the workplace, participant job placement, and tracking. HCDE will partner with MAREK, a construction-based company that is one of the largest and leading construction companies in Houston, to plan and design a curriculum that offers integrated services and intensive services to 70 individuals for 18 months and will incorporate two 20-week sessions.
  
  
• Department of Health & Human Services – Early Head Start
  DHHS awarded Head Start $122,976 for cost-of-living adjustments and quality improvement for its Early Head Start staff/centers.
  
  
• Department of Health & Human Services – Early Head Start/Head Start
  DHHS awarded Head Start $336,365 for cost-of-living adjustments and quality improvement for its Early Head Start/Head Start staff and centers.
  
  
• Department of Health & Human Services – Early Head Start Continuation
  DHHS awarded Head Start $4,792,502 for its Early Head Start continuation.
  
  
• Texas Workforce Commission – Adult Education in partnership with Sylvan Learning Center – Family Math Literacy Initiative (FMLI)
  Texas Workforce Commission awarded $476,547 to Adult Education, in partnership with Sylvan Learning Centers to create a statewide FMLI Call Center. The FMLI Call Center will target parents or caretakers of families and individuals who: 1) are basic skill deficient; or 2) lack a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent; or 3) are English Language Learners; and 4) are AEL-eligible participants who are not currently served by a AEL provider. The call center will provide services to 400 participants and their families a month and 4,800 30-minute sessions annually that focus on learning basic math operations and enhancing digital skill building.
  
  
• Babies in Baytown – Head Start – If You’re Happy and You Know It
  Babies in Baytown awarded Head Start $1,000 for its Art in the Park project. This project stimulates babies' senses, encourages bonding for 100 families, and brings different sectors of the community together around art.
  
  
• Texas Workforce Commission -  Adult Education in partnership with Eight Million Stories – Building Construction Trades
  Texas Workforce Commission awarded $112,016 to Adult Education through a partnership with Eight Million Stories, to provide intake and assessment, adult education, soft skills/career preparation, internships/externships, and job placement for 70 young adults, ages 18-21. Services will assist participants in obtaining an Electrician Apprentice License.
  
  
• Bank of Texas – Head Start – REAL SuperMENtors Read
  Bank of Texas awarded $7,020 to Head Start’s SuperMENtors program. This funding will help offset the cost of purchasing 195 Scholastic Inc. book sets for 1,268 Head Start and Early Head Start students.
  
  
• Texas Education Agency – CASE for Kids – 21^st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC), Cycle 10 Year 5
  The Texas Education Agency awarded $1,500,000 to support CASE for Kids with its 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Cycle 10 Year 5 application. Services focus on academics, behavior, graduation rates and social-emotional learning for low-income students at 10 centers in school districts and charters. Requested funds will provide academic and enrichment services for 975 students and 400 family members.
  
  
• Texas Education Agency – CASE for Kids – 21^st CCLC, Cycle 11 Year 2
  Texas Education Agency awarded $1,700,000 to support CASE for Kids with its 21st CCLC,  Cycle 11 Year 2. The program focuses on academic improvement, social emotional learning, college and career readiness and family engagement for elementary, middle, and high school students. The program will operate 10 centers in five school districts and two charters, serving over 1,000 students and 400 family members.
  
  
• Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities – School-Based Therapy – The Art and Science of Handwriting Intervention
  Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities awarded $5,860 to School-Based Therapy Services for training on handwriting intervention. The one-day workshop will feature Dr. Beverly Moskowitz, Owner and CEO of Real OT Solutions in Philadelphia, PA, and author of the Size Matters Handwriting Program. The workshop will cover research  on handwriting instruction, hands-on lab activities, and other issues related to handwriting as an intervention method for students with disabilities. Over 160 occupational therapists, general and special education teachers will attend the training.
  
  
• Dept. of Health & Human Services – Revision Facilities 1303 – Barrett Station
  DHHS awarded $2,258,988 to Head Start to revise facilities at Barrett Station.
  
  
• CenterPoint Energy – All Earth Ecobot Challenge
  CenterPoint Energy awarded $5,000 to CASE for Kids to support the All-Earth Ecobot Challenge. The project will serve 350 students in 4th-8th grades to help them develop skills in STEM subjects, problem-solving and teamwork. The project also seeks to increase awareness and interest in STEM careers.

• Henderson Foundation – CASE for Kids –  All-Earth Ecobot Challenge
  The Henderson Foundation awarded $1,000 to CASE for Kids for its All-Earth Ecobot Challenge program. In its 13th year, Ecobot is an innovative robotic engineering competition that engages 120 students from 4th-8th grades in STEM-based problem-solving activities.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (DHHS) – Early Head Start Expansion-Child Care Partnership
  DHHS awarded $4,602,481 to Head Start to support its Early Head Start (EHS) Expansion and EHS Child Care in Harris County, Texas. Funding from this grant would expand access to EHS services to 106 children and families who need it most in a full-time, center-based program option.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services – Head Start/Early Head Start Continuation
  DHHS awarded $12,227,579 to Head Start for program operations and training and technical assistance to continue serving 1,000 Head Start students and 64 Early Head Start students in a full-time, center-based program option in east Harris County, Texas.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services – Head Start – American Rescue Plan
  DHHS awarded $1,517,162 to Head Start to hire program staff to start the Fall 2021 school year. Teaching assistants attend professional development and campus staff will conduct home visits and family commitments meetings with classes to follow.
  
  
• Texas Education Agency (TEA) – CASE for Kids – 21^st CCLC, Cycle 11 Year 1
  TEA awarded $1,700,000 to CASE for Kids for its 21st CCLC, Cycle 11, Year 1 program that allows 10 district and charter schools in Alief ISD, Clear Creek ISD, Galena Park ISD, Houston ISD and Humble ISD to provide afterschool programs. These programs serve 1,046 elementary, middle, and high school students and 400 parents/legal guardians.
  
  
• Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities – School-based Therapy – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Training
  Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities awarded the School-Based Therapy Services division $7,500 for a guest speaker for its Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Training. This training was for 160 occupational, physical and music therapy providers.
  
  
• Hogg Foundation – Head Start – Additional Mental Health Support
  The Hogg Foundation awarded $20,000 to support Head Start Program by implementing a mental wellness response plan that promotes resilience in students and families dealing with chronic stress brought on by traumatic events such as COVID-19 and Winter Storm Uri. With this grant, 150 students and families will receive three 45-minute counseling sessions.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Service – Head Start – Coolwood Campus – Disaster Assistant Fund
  DHHS awarded $7,924,284 to Head Start to implement the construction phase of its Coolwood Campus Replacement Project. This campus serves 62 students.
  
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Service – Head Start – Coolwood Campus – Disaster Assistant Fund
  DHHS awarded $587,215 in disaster assistance funds to implement Phase II of Head Start’s Coolwood Facility Replacement Project from Hurricane Harvey damage.
  
  
• Dollar General Literacy Foundation – Schools Division – Youth Literacy Grants
  Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded $3,000 to the Schools Division’s Adventures in Reading (SD-AiR) program to purchase instructional materials, classroom library sets and 111 books and novels. The SD-AiR Program will serve 260 students in its four schools – ABS-East, ABS-West, Highpoint School, and Fortis Academy.
  
  
• Bank of Texas – Head Start – SuperMENtors Program
  Bank of Texas awarded $7,020 to Head Start’s SuperMENtors program. This funding will help offset the cost of purchasing 195 Scholastic Inc. book sets for 1,164 Head Start and Early Head Start students.
  
  
• Texas Education Agency (TEA) – CASE for Kids – 21^st CCLC, Cycle 10, Year 4
  TEA awarded $1,500,000 to CASE for Kids for its 21^st CCLC, Cycle 10, Year 4 program that allows 10 district and charter schools in Galena Park ISD and Shelden ISD to provide afterschool programs to 975 elementary, middle, and high school students.
  
  
• Babies in Baytown – Head Start – Art in the Park
  Babies in Baytown awarded Head Start $1,000 for its Art in the Park project. This project stimulates babies' senses, encourages bonding for 100 families, and brings different sectors of the community together around art.

School-Based Therapy – Great Minds Think Differently

• Ripple Effects provides customized, web-based SEL, behavioral supports, and educator tools provide positive, targeted intervention for students in a variety of learning and corrections settings.
  
  
• Sam’s Club is a members-only warehouse club store selling groceries, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and other goods in bulk with large discounts. 

Center for Safe and Secure Schools – Neighbor Helping Neighbor/Reunification Exercise

• CENTEGIX creates safer spaces by innovating technology to empower and protect people. They believe their values of empowerment, innovation, and advocacy keep us committed to creating safer spaces where all staff feel supported to call for help in any kind of emergency, from the everyday to the extreme. 
  
  
• Blue Knight Security, LLC is a full-service security guard company that takes pride in meeting and going beyond the expectations of our customers by offering outstanding commissioned and non-commissioned security guard services to protect you and your business. Specializing in custom security plans to fit your specific situation and location, our security officers are highly-trained and experienced, with yearly refresher courses and continuous on the job training to ensure our security officers are always “on their toes” for our clients’ needs. 

Procurement – iPASS 

• iCEV specializes in providing quality CTE curriculum and educational resources. iCEV is the most comprehensive online resource for CTE educators and students, offering curriculum for several major subject areas, including agricultural science, trade & industrial education, business & marketing, career exploration, family & consumer science, health science, law enforcement and STEM education. 
  
  
• Ion Wave Technologies help procurement teams of all sizes make more strategic sourcing decisions in less time.
   
• Nash Industries, Inc. has been building in Houston, Texas and surrounding areas since 1999. Nash Industries is a family owned and operated business that is focused on quality not quantity. From their start as a subcontractor to today’s multifaceted approach to commercial construction, Nash has grown by delivering time and time again. Every project, regardless of the size or product type, is viewed with the same commitment to excellence. Nash specializes in new construction and building modifications for existing commercial and institutional organizations.
   
• Versa Creative is a full-service marketing and advertising agency and is in the business of building and scaling powerful brands. Versa Creative services include digital, web, public relations, photography, and videography.

Thank you for your 2021-22 sponsorships!

The Center for Safe and Secure Schools – Virtual School Safety Forum 2020 

• Dura Pier Facilities Services Ltd. (dba Facilities Sources) provides quality construction services for commercial, educational, and institutional markets. Dura Pier Facilities has served LaMarque and Spring Branch ISD’s with building and emergency renovations. Facilities Sources services include repair and renovation in electrical, mechanical, HVAC and many other additional services.
  
  
• Instant Data Technologies (Indatatech) is a full-service management and consulting company specializing in supply chain processes, procurement, and logistics management services.
  
  
• 4Imprint has promotional products and merchandise to fit an organization’s needs.

The Teaching and Learning Center – 35^th Annual Early Childhood Winter Conference 2020

• All-Educate offers quality and unique educational resources for K-12 schools in the areas of Intervention Reading, Writing, Bilingual and ESL Programs, ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Social and Emotional Learning, Mental Health Education and even After-School. 
  
  
• Achieve3000 For more than 20 years, Achieve3000 has been empowering educators and helping them unlock student potential and accelerate learning growth. Now, more than ever, schools and districts need proven solutions that can help them address unfinished learning and prepare students for success.  
  
  
• Benchmark Education provides comprehensive instructional materials.  
  
  
• Scholastic is a multinational publishing, education and media company that publishes and distributes comics, books and educational materials for schools, parents, and children. 
  
  
• Kaplan Early Learning Company has been a champion for play. From our research-based curricula to enriching classroom environments and innovative technology solutions, Kaplan's products and services inspire a lifelong love of learning in children and educators. We are architects of learning good and defenders of the imagination. We live for inseparable bonds and open minds. We encourage the eager and inspire the inspirers. Together, we transform lives through play. 
  
  
• SAVVAS, formerly Pearson K-12 Learning, is the next-generation learning company that combines new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of interacting to create innovative learning solutions.  
  
  
• Learning Without Tears has a curriculum that focuses on providing developmentally appropriate instruction in handwriting, literacy, and math for students from Pre-K through 5th grade. The early learning portion of the curriculum has suggestions for dozens of academic activities to implement in the preschool classroom.  
  
  
• Zoo-phonics curriculum is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinesthetic” (moving), and tactile (touching)—whole brain approach. Students learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation. 
  
  
• Walden University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and committed to quality assurance and continuous improvement of the institution. Walden University has 70-degree programs and over 260 concentrations and specializations that meet your needs—and the moment. 
  
  
• Teaching Strategies help early childhood educators build this environment and provide the foundation for success for every child by connecting teachers, children, and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, informative data, and stronger partnerships through the leading early learning platform and solutions.  

The Teaching and Learning Center – Ron Clark Event 2021

• hand2mind supports teachers, inspire students, engage parents, and champion learning by doing.

Thank you for your 2020-21 sponsorships!