Thursday, May 2, 2024
The Grow Your Own (GYO) program at GISD is paying big dividends for the district. KayLeigh Goodwin Tennison was a 2018 honors graduate of Gatesville High School. She was in the inaugural cohort of the GYO program that started in 2018. She received tuition assistance from GISD and its partners Temple College and Texas A&M - Central Texas (TAMUCT).
Four years later, she graduated from TAMUCT with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics – once again with high honors. As part of the program, KayLeigh will now work as a math teacher at the high school. This is a win-win, with KayLeigh receiving assistance with her tuition and GISD now having a full-time teacher in a hard-to-fill content area.
