Because students spend so much time in school, our schools offer a critically important opportunity to ensure that all students get the support and help they need to reach their full potential. Studies show schools that embrace character education become places people want to be because they bring out the best in everyone.

In Galena Park ISD, our goal is to produce productive citizens and life-long learners, and character education is one way we are approaching this goal.

The Character Education Theme for this month is SELF-DISCIPLINE.

Self-discipline is behaving according to what you have decided is best, regardless of how you feel in the moment. Decide what behavior best reflects your goals and values and do it.

Please take a moment to talk to your child about this month's character education theme and what it means to them. Administrators and teachers will be highlighting students who exhibit this character during the month of April.

Galena Park ISD Technology Department hosted its 15th annual Multimedia Festival on Thursday, March 5th. Approximately 450 students from grades K-12th celebrated their hard work and creativity by showing off their technology projects and attending an awards ceremony. The multimedia project categories included coding, graphic design, choice challenge, and 3D digital modeling. The contest medals were created by Samantha Chimene, a student at Cunningham M.S. During the festival, students were able to interact with the coding projects and robot, which was demonstrated by Team Robotics of Galena Park H.S. The festival is a team effort and would not be successful without the help and support of our parents, teachers, administrators, cabinet members, board members, NSSH, GPHS and the technology team.

Parental involvement is one of GPISD's greatest strengths. We believe that the education of children requires a partnership with their parents. On any given day, you can find parents volunteering on their child’s home campus. Their involvement and support is exceptional and has truly helped make GPISD the best district in the state of Texas.

If you are interested in becoming a parent volunteer, please contact your child's campus.