Aldine Education Foundation: Businesses, Community Members Have Opportunity to Support Educators at Teacher of the Year Breakfast

The [icons icon_name=”icon-external-link” icon_size=”14px”]Aldine Education Foundation is joining Aldine ISD to recognize excellence at the district’s Teacher of the Year Breakfast set for Friday, March 7 at 7:30 a.m. at the Hyatt North Houston Hotel, 425 N. Sam Houston E.

Seventy-five principals will join their Campus Teachers of the Year in attendance. At the event, every Campus Teacher of the Year will be recognized. The Aldine ISD Teacher of the Year Committee will also name the two winners — Elementary/Intermediate Teacher of the Year and Secondary Teacher of the Year.

The top two winners will represent Aldine ISD at the Region 4 Teacher of the Year program.

The Aldine Education Foundation is sponsoring the AISD Teacher of the Year Breakfast for the first time. The foundation is making table sponsorships available for community organizations and businesses.

“This is a great opportunity for community organizations and businesses to honor excellence in the classroom,” said Judy Hoya, coordinator for the Aldine Education Foundation.

Monies raised from table sponsorships will be used to provide monetary awards for all the Campus Teachers of the Year, the six finalists and the two district winners. Funds would also cover the cost of the breakfast. Any additional funds raised would go toward the foundation’s two key objectives: providing students with scholarship opportunities to pursue higher education and grants to educators for initiatives that promote academic achievement.

Thanks to generous donors, the foundation’s inaugural year was a monumental success, bringing in more than $732,000 in grants and contributions. The foundation provided five grants for innovative classroom programs and awarded scholarships to 139 Aldine students in 2012-2013. Now in its second year, the foundation has already awarded more than $31,000 in [icons icon_name=”icon-external-link” icon_size=”14px”]grants to fund innovative classroom projects.

Table sponsorship opportunities include a $2,000 Gold Sponsor Level, a $1,500 Silver Sponsor Level and a $1,000 Bronze Sponsor Level. Each sponsorship level has certain benefits (i.e. listing in program, listing in news releases, name on table, publicity as a sponsor, reserved seating for either 1, 2 or 3 people).

Contact the Aldine Education Foundation at 281-985-6078 or Judy Hoya at 281-985-6147 to sponsor a table or to make a donation.