Across the Lawn – April 7, 2023
Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...
Across the Lawn – March 10, 2023
Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...
Classroom to Capitol: How Texas Teachers are Becoming Effective Advocates
“I have realized how powerful my voice actually is.” Leina Green is a high school math teacher from the small East Texas town of Henderson. She joined fellow teachers from the East Texas area...
Rethinking School Assessment and Accountability
On January 18, 2022, Raise Your Hand Texas hosted our first-ever policy conference, the Measure What Matters: Assessment and Accountability Conference. The event was part of a statewide listening and engagement campaign created to...
First Grade Lessons that Last a Lifetime
VOICES ON TEACHING First Grade Lessons that Last a lifetime She taught him over 50 years ago. He’s paying that impact forward. *The following story and video were captured in 2019. When six-year-old...
