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Premier High School – Mission Class of 2013

Premier High School encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and find a workflow that works best for them to achieve graduation. Sandy Balboa graduated from the Mission, Texas campus in 2013 and says that the opportunity for independent learning helped shape her future. “I feel we were treated as responsible adults while being offered help at every corner when we needed it,” says Balboa.

Now working for the City of McAllen in the transit department, Balboa continues to love volunteering and is always looking for new opportunities. She offers to help with department and city events in her free time. While in high school you were more likely to find her volunteering on campus, at the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley and at local nursing homes, rather than attending social gatherings.  Balboa was also a member of the criminal justice and political science clubs while a student.

She went on to attend  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she majored in criminal justice. Working to support herself through college, Balboa was employed as an after-school coordinator, substitute, and finally a teacher aide. She says that the elementary school schedule allowed her to stay focused on her studies. “My jobs hardly required any of my personal time so I dedicated any and all of my extra time for school work including breaks between classes. There’s a lot you can get done when you’re able to focus solely on what is needed at the moment,” says Balboa.

Balboa goes on to say that managing her time between multiple responsibilities and working to pay tuition taught her to take ownership of her workload and be able to take on more when required. “Never let any obstacle along your way get the best of you, never give up, and have fun,” she says.

‘Never give up,’ is a saying that Balboa lives by and she thanks Mrs. Alizy and Ms. Perez for encouraging her throughout high school and supporting her all the way to graduation.

For more information about the ResponsiveEd Alumni Network, please visit www.responsiveed.com/alumni/.

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LEWISVILLE, Texas – October 1, 2019 – More than 12,000 Texas students across 60 ResponsiveEd® public charter schools participated in this year’s Character Day. The worldwide initiative, organized by Let it Ripple, took place September 27-28 to recognize the importance of character development from different perspectives. This year, the theme focused on how technology enhances and hinders our character development.

ResponsiveEd students from every grade level took part in character-building activities such as theatrical performances, neighborhood trash clean-ups, citizenship lessons, class service projects, posters design, poem writing, door decorating, canned-food drives, and watching Character Day videos followed by discussion.

“We stress the importance of character development every day at our campuses, so to take part in an event dedicated to having good character falls right in line with our mission to cultivate moral and academic excellence,” says ResponsiveEd Counseling Support Coordinator Don Moore. “To see participation from such a large segment of our students across the state means that our campuses understand the value of having good character along with making good grades.”   

Let it Ripple is the film company that helped begin Character Day in 2014. Its mission is to use film, technology, discussion materials, and events to engage a 21st-century audience in conversation and action around complicated subjects that are shaping our lives. This is the second year in a row that ResponsiveEd schools have participated in the event along with more than four million people across 200,000 groups in all 50 states and 125 countries around the world.

ResponsiveEd® is a non-profit corporation that operates more than 70 tuition-free public schools throughout Texas and Arkansas, including Premier High Schools®, ResponsiveEd Classical Academies, Founders Classical Academies®, Quest Academies, iSchool High®, and iSchool Virtual Academy of Texas. ResponsiveEd’s mission is to provide hope for students through educational options that promote a free society and cultivate moral and academic excellence. To learn more, visit www.ResponsiveEd.com.

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LEWISVILLE, Texas, Sept. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ResponsiveEd®, a nonprofit based in Lewisville that has 16 public charter schools in the North Texas-metroplex, outdid its last year’s North Texas Giving Day totals by more than $10,000. This year, the organization raised $74,150 contributed by 378 donors toward The ResponsiveEd Foundation.

For the second year in a row, one of its campuses, Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, won first place for the most online FUNdraiser page donations. They were awarded an additional $2,500.

“Our North Texas public charter school students are the beneficiaries of the overwhelming generosity we see from parents, local businesses and community support for high-quality education,” says ResponsiveEd Campus Development Coordinator Angela Bernstein. “ResponsiveEd’s mission is to provide hope to all students and we want to thank every contributor who donated this year in support of that mission.”

Now in its 11th year, North Texas Giving Day is an 18-hour online giving event designed to empower citizens and businesses to give back to their community by supporting local nonprofits. The 2019 event took place on September 19 raising more than $50 million for nearly 3,000 nonprofits across North Texas.

ResponsiveEd® is a non-profit corporation that operates more than 70 tuition-free public schools throughout Texas and Arkansas, including Premier High Schools®, ResponsiveEd Classical Academies, Founders Classical Academies®, Quest Academies, iSchool High®, and iSchool Virtual Academy of Texas. ResponsiveEd’s mission is to provide hope for students through educational options that promote a free society and cultivate moral and academic excellence. To learn more, visit www.ResponsiveEd.com.

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