With the start of the 2017 legislative session right around the corner, ATPE is preparing to address several public education priorities.
As an eight-year-old, writer Melissa Williams was fascinated by iguanas. Her pet iguana, named Iggy, became her creative inspiration as she wrote a series of children’s books, and has become one of Houston’s strongest voices for literacy. Through iWRITE, her literacy nonprofit, she has now partnered with the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation to publish and celebrate students’ short stories, poems, and illustrations, and to create resources for teachers in the classroom.