Posts by Ashley Thornton
“EnAbled for College” program Helps Students Make the Move to College
(This piece was first published on the Baylor School of Education blog “Instant Impact.” – ALW) by Taylor Ward Results from the first three years of the Baylor School of Education’s EnAbled for College program show that high-school students working with trained mentors are reaching the next level of education. Research has proven that at-risk…
Read MoreTreasure Hunting on LaSalle Avenue
By Lauren Paczynski Are you looking to redecorate, or just prowling for that perfect statement piece for your home? Are traditional furniture stores not really your style? Then this post is for you— the shabby-chic shoppers, the junk junkies, and the antique aficionados. Whether you’re looking for vintage finds, antique treasures, or “junque,” there are…
Read MoreRead Locally Waco: The Bad Friends
Read Locally Waco is a project to promote literacy in Waco. Throughout the semester we will post stories that use sight words our children are learning in Waco ISD. You can print these stories and lists of words to use with your children or with other children in your life. This week’s story uses words…
Read MoreRead Locally Waco: Let’s make Wacotown a reading town!
Waco ISD Superintendent Dr. Marcus Nelson has declared literacy to be one of the top goals for our school district. We all have a part to play in making sure our children grow to be terrific readers! Act Locally Waco is looking for a way to help. We have come up with an experiment. We…
Read MoreThe nature of being neighborly
By Craig Nash One of my favorite pastimes as a Wacoan is talking about Waco. Of the small handful of places I have lived in my life, none have been as self-reflective as this community. This has been the case at least since I moved here in the summer of 2000, and has reached new…
Read MoreGardening Waco Part 1: What does it take to “be a gardener?”
(For the other parts of this series, click here: Gardening Waco. — ALW) By Aime Sommerfeld-Lillard Let’s talk about gardens. I’ve had a lot of conversations about gardens lately. Backyard gardens, producing gardens, school gardens or community gardens… all kinds of gardens. Hold on to your seats for this part. Imagine: to some people a…
Read More2018 Greatest Hits #3: What is “Co-working space?” and Why does Waco need it?
(During these last few weeks of December we will be reprising the Top 10 Most Opened Blog Posts for 2018 from the Act Locally Waco blog. I couldn’t possibly pick my favorites – so I used the simple (cop out?) approach of pulling up the 10 blog posts that got the most “opens” according to…
Read MoreWhat’s Your -Er…?
(Tami Nutall Jefferson, a married mother and grandmother, is going back to school and she has invited us all along to enjoy the ride. For more posts in this series, click here: Tami’s Big Do Over. – ALW) By Tami Nutall Jefferson Everyone has one – the famous, the infamous, the invisible ones. I struggled…
Read MoreIntegrity, good character, nurturing the hearts and minds… and taxes?!?!
By Angelo Ochoa It’s Eight o’clock…. Do you know where your kids are? If you were to ask this question to parents of the students in the Academy of Business and Finance at University High School, the answer would be easy. “Yes I do. They are still at school preparing income tax returns for the…
Read MoreLeague of Women Voters – Waco
By Ivy Orr Hamerly, Christina Chan-Park, and Rebecca McCumbers Flavin In 1920, 20 million new voters won the right to vote. That same year, the League of Women Voters began helping these new voters learn how to exercise their voting rights. Almost 100 years later, the League of Women Voters is still protecting democracy and…
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