Principal Maricela De La Cruz, Ed.D. and the UT-UCS campus at Laurel Ridge Formative Years at High Point are excited to announce their first graduate! UT Charter School welcomed our Laurel Ridge Formative Years at High Point campus in 2015. Formative Years is a day treatment program at Laurel Ridge… read more
Holocaust Remembrance Week 2022
Established in 2013, K through 12 students in Texas must receive Holocaust instruction during the week that includes January 27. This week was chosen because on January 27, 1945, was the day that the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland was “liberated” by Allied troops during WWII. Teachers have a variety… read more
January is Board Recognition Month
Board Recognition Month January is Board Recognition Month and the UT Charter School System is grateful to have two wonderful boards that support our students, faculty and schools. UT University Charter School has an Advisory Board chaired by Dr. Jennifer Maedgen and UT Elementary has a Management Board chaired by… read more
MCH – Bulldog Holidays
It is common at this time of year for classrooms to have competitions on whose class can best decorate a room door. This year, Methodist Children’s Home kicked it up a notch by decorating their hallways! Following the theme of “Bulldog Holidays” MCH teachers and students competed for the grand… read more
Canned Food Drive at Methodist Children’s Home
The Student Council at Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) conducted a canned food drive for the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving break. Each homeroom collected cans for about two and a half weeks and then on November 16th, the cans were counted. Mrs. Patterson’s homeroom class collected 196 cans… read more
Meet Dr. Lucy Vélez, UTUCS College & Career Transition Coordinator
To help UT University Charter School teens prepare for life after high school, our district recently hired Dr. Lucy Vélez as our College & Career Transition Coordinator. This new position will facilitate our district’s efforts to provide accessible postsecondary information for students, staff and parents. Lucy explained that the unique… read more
Survey for Stakeholders About Special Education
The Division of Review and Support at the Texas Education Agency (TEA) strives to improve special education services for Texas Local Education Agencies (LEAs.) The monitoring process is intended to help school districts continuously improve services and facilitate positive student outcomes. Please provide feedback through this 10-20 minute survey. This… read more
Vegetable Soup Garden at SJRC
The students of SJRC have started a Vegetable Soup Garden. By Ms. Margaret Womak, ELA teacher at SJRC in Bulverde A conversation about food insecurity once they leave care, a situation many of our students have already experienced, was discussed in class, and the students began brainstorming solutions. They searched… read more
Meet Andrea Menchaca
Welcome to Andrea Menchaca, UT Charter School System’s new SEL Coordinator UT Elementary has been a national leader in Social-Emotional Learning for a long time. Social-Emotional Learning, or SEL for short, teaches children to recognize and identify the emotions that they, their classmates or their family members may be feeling.… read more