Ball High Life Skills Friends

10/12/2023

Check out some of the Ball High Tor Store Boys at The Spot for the work based learning program!

08/22/2023

Students and staff, don’t forget to wear your favorite Hawaiian shirt on Thursday.

08/03/2023

High five to our friends for filling our bins to the brim! We are both hydrating and readying our souls for tomorrow's challenge. We will be running and biking starting at 5am from Menard Park to 61st and back five times. We owe you a debt of 25 miles and the Tor Store always pays its debts! If you see us on the seawall, give us a honk or shout to keep our spirits up. Let's go, Galveston!

06/27/2023

Challenge!!!! Coach Lewis and Coach Muren want to challenge you, our SupporTORS, to fill these bead bins to the brim with your donated Mardi Gras beads by August 3rd. Coach Lewis and Coach Muren have pledged to bike/run five miles for every bead bin that is filled on August 4th. Donate your beads at Ball High School, 4115 Ave O. And remember, "Everbody is essential!" Let's go, Galveston!

03/26/2023

Read this!!! Eat at The Spot !!!

3/24/23 Update:

This has nothing to do with our food and beverage; this post falls into the 'Taking Care of Our Community' bucket.

A couple of months ago, while at Ball High School speaking with students, another teacher pulled me aside and asked if I would attend a meeting he was conducting.

Darren Muren runs the Life Skills Program at Ball High. These students have been identified as needing an alternate or modified curriculum from the general population. The life skills program has a School Store and work-based learning classes to work on vocational and job skills. The students in the work-based learning program are from 11th grade to their 22nd birthday. These students are seen as having the potential to be employable but may need a couple of years to work on their vocational skills.

Essentially what these Life Skills students need is simple, they need an opportunity. And an opportunity is the value we could add.

We offered to employ all of the students. Their physical and mental abilities vary however, when given the opportunity, everyone adds value.

These students work at The Spot every Tuesday from 1pm - 2:30pm. You'll be able to 'spot' them by their red shirts.

Darren is doing God's work, and we are humbled to partner with him and make a meaningful impact on our community.

My best.

-Dennis Byrd

03/03/2023

Don’t forget the Fun Run tomorrow at Menard Park!!! Look at the cool T-shirt we got for volunteering!

01/31/2023

Watch this about our Ball High Tor Store

11/18/2022

It’s the Christmas Season. Don’t forget to Donate to the Ball High Tor Store. Here is the link.
https://stephenlewis2.wixsite.com/torstore/home