Galena Park ISD Learns

This week's shout-out goes to the lovely Ms. Lopez. Ms. Lopez teaches targeted student groups at Cimarron. She thoughtfully plans lessons that meet each child where they are, supporting growth and learning. She creates lessons that balance academic progress with joy, ensuring every session is both productive and fun. The most important thing we have seen Ms. Lopez do during her time at Cimarron is strive to build strong connections.

During “Friendship Parties” last week, Ms. Lopez intentionally visited each of her students’ classrooms to share extra, special one-on-one moments with them. Showing them how important they are to her. Her dedication fosters strong connections and visible student growth across her groups.

Where are all my MATH teachers at?! - Kids need to move around sometimes, but we can’t just let them go. We have to give them a task. 3 Noses is an active ➕📐math 📏➗warm-up that is inclusive and fun. It puts students in a positive frame of mind and gets them ready to learn.

60-Second Strategy: 3 Noses An active math warm-up that is inclusive and fun puts students in a positive frame of mind—and gets them ready to learn. Join the Edutopia community today to...

Teachers, we're feeling the love this season!

What is something that you are LOVING about your classroom this year?

Whether it's a favorite lesson, sweet student moments, a routine that's working perfectly, or something that made your heart extra full! Tell us in the comments so we can celebrate the love and excitement happening in your classrooms!

Watch Em Work Wednesday - Mr. Oviedo at GPHS has implemented a full suite of classroom management strategies that create a respectful, predictable learning environment: class social contracts, clear and consistent routines, effective attention‑getters, and even classroom jobs in his secondary classroom. Yes — you heard that right: secondary classrooms can have classroom jobs too, and Mr. Oviedo uses them to give students meaningful responsibilities. These roles help students develop leadership skills and ownership as they complete tasks that support a positive classroom community. The result is a structured, student-centered classroom where expectations are clear and learners actively contribute to a supportive culture.

WAES is lucky to have Ms Martinez and Ms Reyes! Way to go ladies!

Happy National Pizza Day to the most slice-tacular teachers around.

Anyway you slice it, our district is 🍕 supreme🍕 with the best teachers around. Thank you for serving up knowledge, kindness, and inspiration daily and never being out-topped!

Frayer Friday - The Frayer Model is a great instructional strategy to support students’ acquisition of vocabulary by creating a graphic organizer of new words and using resource materials to examine for their definitions, characteristics, examples, and non-examples. In K–2, provide pre-filled templates with images. For example, for “habitat,” use pictures of a forest, desert, or ocean. For grades 3–5, have students write sentences using the vocabulary word in context, such as “ecosystem.” For 6th–12th graders, challenge students to apply the Frayer Model to complex terms with their own research.

Always a Rising Star! 🌠Congrats Ms. Juarez!

Please join us in congratulating and celebrating these outstanding teachers. Our campus is stronger, richer, and brighter because of you. 💙🌍📚

We proudly celebrate our Bilingual and ESL Teachers of the Year, educators who turn language into a bridge and classrooms into places where every student belongs. Through patience, passion, and powerful instruction, they honor students’ cultures, amplify their voices, and open doors to opportunity every single day.
Congratulations ladies!!!🎉🎉🎉

🌟Rising Star in Bilingual - Hilda Juarez

🎖️Excellence in ESL - Sara Ortega

🌟Rising Star in ESL - Kasey Martinez

🎖️Excellence in Bilingual - Alicia Hernandez Guajardo

Congratulations Ms. Valero! We are so proud of you! 🥳🥳🥳

🌟🎉 Our HAABE Rising Star in Bilingual Education is Mrs. Valero! 🎉🌟

We are excited to honor Mrs. Valero as our HAABE Rising Star in Bilingual Education, an award that recognizes a promising early-career bilingual educator whose strong instruction, passion for language acquisition, and commitment to emergent bilingual learners truly shine. This recognition celebrates her intentional teaching practices, enthusiasm for continuous growth, and the meaningful ways she builds confidence and success for her students every day.

Congratulations, Mrs. Valero! We are so proud of you and your rising impact! 💙

Hey, Mr. Lopez! We see you! 👀 Congratulations! 🥳🤩💫🎉

January was National Mentoring Month — but great mentors deserve celebration year‑round! 🌟

This Watch Em Work Wednesday is a little different: let’s honor the people who walk alongside us, listen without judgment, and lift us up. Share a quick message with a mentor who made a difference, tag them, or pay it forward by mentoring someone else.

Who’s one mentor you’re grateful for? Drop their name (or a short story) below and let’s fill this feed with gratitude. 💬👇