Are you at #Launch2024 today and tomorrow, hosted by Texas PTA. Swing by booth #433 to meet the Raise Your Hand Texas team and learn how to use your voice to advocate for public education. See you there! #TxEd #TxLege #TexasPTA #Grapevine #Texas #PTA

🚀 Early career educators! Ready to thrive in your teaching career? Join our FREE webinar "Strategies for a Successful Start in Education." 📅 July 31 ⏰5 p.m. CT Earn 1 hour of CPE credit! Open to all Texas educators. Don't miss out – register now! atpe.me/BTS24

Wish you would have finished that degree but don’t know how to fit it in your busy schedule? There’s a program for you! 👇

Yes! Whether Paris, France or Paris, Texas, we’re celebrating the Olympics and 🇺🇸! RaiseYourHandTexas

The House Public Education Committee will hold interim hearings on public education Aug. 12 and 13. We encourage you to use your teacher voice to weigh in on these important issues through the public comment system. Details on ATPE's Teach the Vote blog: teachthevote.atpe.org/Our-Blog/Lates…

Excellent opportunity to build your leadership skills!

No experience like this! Nominate a teacher.

I rarely share personal here, but one of my brother’s sitting VB players (he’s coach) was elected by the athletes as the female Opening Ceremony flag bearer for USA at the Paralympics!! Opening ceremonies are August 28 (this Wednesday) at 1 pm (I think). facebook.com/share/r/fwPPmT…

Last call for applications to serve on the 2024-25 ATPE Leader Development, Legislative, Membership & Nomination/Elections Committees! Learn more and apply here by Monday: atpe.org/News-Media/ATP… #ATPE #membergoverned

My brother isn’t a crier, but coaching your team to a fifth Olympic medal and winning a Threepeat GOLD will do it. SO VERY PROUD of him and these ladies!!! 🇺🇸🏐🥇🥇🥇

If you don’t know Eugene Hamilton, I challenge you to #GoGrowGlow with him! I feel peace & power when I listen to his podcasts as he challenges me to see things a new way. Here’s an example of one I wish I would have had my first year as Superintendent! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

The month of September is Suicide Prevention Month, and today is Suicide Prevention Day. If you or anyone you know needs help, dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis lifeline. If you'd like to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Month, click the link below.

There’s so much we will never, and shouldn’t, forget. The most profound instant for me was ‘the moment’ it sunk in what was actually happening- the personal fear, then the concern for my students and how to keep them calm. It truly was a day that changed us forever.

You’ve been meaning to do this. Well, today is the last day to join without a wait period. You can’t afford go one more day without coverage!

November is right around the corner— the stakes could not be more high, especially as Texas schools are facing tough decisions, from closing campuses to cutting staff, due to stagnant state funding and the end of pandemic aid. With inflation and rising costs, schools need more

We are looking ahead to the 89th legislative session, and Raise Your Hand Texas believes the future of Texas is in our public schools. We must improve school funding, give teachers a pay raise, continue to invest in high-quality programs, ensure public dollars remain in public

Today is Texas Teachers’ Day! #TeachersCan (& do) change the world. THANK YOU to all the teachers out there. YOU are ensuring our future!

🙌 Reverend Matt Hall’s ordination service! As I looked across the church & saw people of many backgrounds, nationalities & faiths, I thought, “This is the world as it should be.” Thank you, Matt, for shining God’s love to everyone you meet & serving as an example to all of us.