Lisa Meyer

Director of English Language Arts, AVID District Director, mom and wife.

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@DPISD_DWJH @DPISD_South DWJH AVID IN THE HOUSE!

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@DPISD_DWJH @LisaLanierMeyer Miss you all!! Hope you’re having a great SI!

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This is one of my heroes, and I don’t grant heroism lightly. Mary Catherine Swanson’s ingenuity, strength, wisdom, panache, and heart have improved lives of students from Australia to New York, from Hawaii to Deer Park, Texas. What an honor to hear her speak. #AVID4Possibility

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Mr. Kouba rocking the new WICOR Academy at Deepwater Junior High! After school meeting and teachers are engaged and enthusiastic. #thisisAVID #dpisd

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@12thManFndtn @AggieEquestrian @12thMan @TAMU Love this!

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AVID Path Training in Deer Park ISD. We are the FIRST district to get to bring Path training back and it has been AWESOME! #thisisAVID #dpisd

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"My definition of a good teacher has since changed from 'one who explains things so well that students understand' to 'one who gets students to explain things so well that they can be understood.'" — Steven C. Reinhart from https://t.co/ZS8uJAFecV #MTBoS #iteachmath

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@jbaggs @nenagerman This is so true. LOL!

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Celebrating Deer Park High School’s attaining AVID National Demonstration School status! #thisisAVID #dpisd

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@KGrynch @JasonReynolds83 @DrIbram I’m SO sorry! Don’t give up on teaching! There are other places that would welcome your passion and commitment. Sending you prayers for strength and healing and the hope for a new path to the future.

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My kind of hero! We need to do this here!

[Caitlin Gooch @theblackcowgirl]

Hi, I’m Gooch.

See that truck and trailer? I drive it to different communities to give books to children in need. Oh and I bring my horse with me.

RT so I can get the word out. I’m in N.C.

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grant the credit to her parents or her teachers, mostly I’m just grateful.

Signed,

A Mom Who Gets to Hear Hamilton Music 10 Times Each Day, and That’s OK

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@Lin_Manuel Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda:

My 8th grade daughter is absolutely acing US history. You might think that this fact is a result of excellent teaching (her teacher is GREAT), or perhaps because her father taught history, her mother taught history, and we have made it a

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point to have deep conversations about history, visit historical sights, and generally imbue her with a sense of what has come before. For example, every July 4, we read the Declaration of Independence together.

But no. When I commented yesterday on her top-notch grades in

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older than the American Revolution) And what ultimately happened to Aaron Burr? (It’s an interesting karmic story, but the most interesting part is that his daughter, Theodosia, was either lost at sea or captured by pirates...).

So while I am a little put-out that she doesn’t

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to uphold, but that we kept trying and will keep trying until we get it right.

We’ve researched to find out: Was Martha Washington’s tomcat REALLY named after Hamilton? (Probably not) Was there really a drinking song called “The World Turned Upside Down”? (Yes, and it is much

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understanding of the three branches of government.

Probably more importantly, she understands that politicians are sometimes nefarious, sometimes ambitious, and always too-humanly fallible. She knows that our country was founded on ideals that, right from the start, we failed

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So thank you, Mr. Miranda. Because of your talents, my daughter knows the difference between a Democratic-Republican and a Federalist, can cite the authors of the Federalist Papers, understands the points that George Washington made in his Farewell Address, and has a rudimentary

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her American history class, she said, “And it’s all thanks to Hamilton.”

While some credit should go to the man himself, she didn’t really mean, “Thanks to Alexander Hamilton the creator of our national banking system, etc....” She meant, “Thanks to the MUSICAL Hamilton.”

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@bartzstar @JoyceWhiteVance Think about this...pretty accurate analogy!