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  • Parents and Teachers,
     
    Just a reminder.....the PRIORITIES of Garza ECHS are from our Action Plan. They are:
     
    1. Curriculum Alignment - making sure that what the state says we must teach is aligned with what we actually teach
    2. Writing to Learn - ensuring that writing applications are utilized in every teacher's classroom not just ELA
    3.  Instructional Feedback - giving feedback to colleagues and students that is constructive for the purpose of continuous improvement
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  • TOP TEN reasons why Garza ECHS is outstanding:

    1.      Student needs are the top priority in our academic program.

    2.      Teachers are encouraged and expected to become experts in their content areas.

    3.      Academic departments are comprised of intrinsic learners.

    4.      Academic departments willfully share a vision with which to pursue excellence.

    5.      The administration does not perceive themselves as an agency separate and above the teachers (who directly facilitate student learning).

    6.      Faculty members are receptive to the opinions and ideas shared by their colleagues.

    7.      Faculty members are expected to share opinions concerning decisions that could impact student performance.

    8.      Discipline problems are dissolved by academic and behavioral expectations.

    9.      Students feel that they are members of an academic family.

    10.  The administration understands the meaning of the term "professionalism" regarding their own responsibilities and the individuals whom they lead. 
     
    From Mr. Lopez ~ 10th grade ELA teacher-leader

     
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  • Senior Class of 2013 Officers, Morgan Mitchell, Destin Germany, and Anthony Granadino spent Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at the Texas Capitol in Austin.  Garza ECHS was selected by Educate Texas as one of three schools to represent the 59 early colleges across the state of Texas during Early College Week.  Students were accompanied by Dr. Janice Lombardi and Liliana Ponce to Austin. Mountain View College supported the trip by furnishin their van as the transportation to Austin.  The seniors spent the day seeing how government works first hand.  This included recogntions in both the House Gallery and the Senate Gallery.  They also toured the entire Capitol complex with Eric Dominquez, the administrative assistant to Royce West.  The highlights of their visit were their opportunities to meet with Representative Alonzo and Senator Royce West each individually. 
     
    Read the information from one of the Capitol Reports of Representative Alonzo where the Garza ECHS seniors are featured fron and center!
     
    Capitol Report
     
     
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  • Garza ECHS ~
    What do we value?  What actions are we taking to continously improve?  What are the DISD Core Beliefs? How do we accomplish our goals?  The answers are in the following 3,4,5,6 PowerPoint!

    3-GARZA CORE VALUES; 4-ACTION STEPS; 5-DISD CORE BELIEFS; 6-COMMON INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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  • Uniforms
    Students at Garza ECHS are expected to wear a uniform during their 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.  This consists of a polo shirt in blue, yellow, black or white and khaki or black pants.  During the senior year, students wear the DISD dress code as a "perk" to becoming a senior on a college campus.  Blazers are worn on Wednesdays or on professional dress days as designated by the principal. 
     

     
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    Bus Route Information
    Bus Schedule 9.7.12

     
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  • Garza Early College High School wins national award!
    Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School has been named a winner in the high school category of the National Center of Urban School Transformation’s 2012 Excellence in Urban Education Award. Garza is one of only three high schools in the country to win the award this year.
     
    “To make it on any list that includes successful urban schools throughout the United States is humbling,” said Dr. Janice Lombardi, principal at Garza. “We know that our academics are rigorous and our expectations are high – we make no excuses for expecting the best of our urban students. We know our faculty brings out the best in themselves and the best in our students.”
     
    Schools that met all the award’s criteria were named finalists in early January, with site visits by judges later that month. Judges reviewed data and interviewed students, parents and every teacher as part of their analysis of Garza. The school will be honored at the organization’s annual symposium in May in San Diego. 
     
    Garza currently serves 393 students, who are working toward earning their high school diplomas and an Associate’s degree from Mountain View College in the Dallas County Community College District, or 48 core college credit hours toward a bachelor’s degree. Opened in 2006, the high school employs its own staff and occupies space at Mountain View. The school is a Texas Education Agency Recognized school. Students are 85 percent Hispanic and 13 percent African American, 86 percent of them are eligible for free/reduced lunch and 27 percent are limited English proficient. 
     
    Students are not accepted to Garza based on college readiness criteria. “In fact, the opposite is quite true,” Lombardi said. “Many of our students would not ever go to college if they were not at our early college.” Eighty-four percent of Garza students are among the first in their families to attend college.
     
    The teaching approach at the school considers the whole student: their behavior, their academics and their strengths and weaknesses. “We have a culture of learning and college readiness here,” she said. “Our instructional emphasis is effort-based; working hard does matter.”
     
    The award celebrates urban schools that serve low-income communities and overcome multiple challenges, yet their students are performing well academically. Since 2006, the Excellence in Urban Education Award program has recognized 62 elementary, middle and high schools in 40 school districts and 17 states. 
     
    For information on the award, visit the National Center for Urban School Transformation’s www.ncust.org
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  • Science Fair Winners ~ Garza ECHS won the UT Southwestern Medical School Emerging Science Awards in Physical and Life Sciences ! Judith Gasca and David Pecina

    Districtwide Science Fair Winners
    Environmental Management
    Judith Gasca #1
    Environmental Science
    David Pecina #2
    Plant Sciences
    Alex Granados #2
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  • Video of Garza ECHS:  Students at Garza Early College High School have the opportunity to earn an Associates degree by the time they graduate, which really puts them ahead of their competition. Early College High School students can earn dual credit for high school and college credit at Mountain View in order to graduate from both high school AND community college.
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  • Open Mike Live Community Meetings
    Superintendent Mike Miles is taking questions from the Dallas Community via Open Mike Live.

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