By: Dr. Norma Martinez
The GCCISD Education Foundation hosted the Cowboy Boots & Goose Creek Roots featuring Pat Green in concert at the Hyatt Regency Baytown on Friday, October 27. This fundraiser was held to support the students and teachers of Goose Creek CISD as a partnership with community sponsors to provide resources, enrich teaching, inspire learning, and opportunities for excellence.
Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman.
Pat Green and his band took the stage a little after 8:30pm and wowed the audience with his performance of songs that reached from the beginning of his career in 1998 to his most recent album, “Miles and Miles of You,” released in 2022. Attendees danced for over an hour, as Pat Green talked and joked with the audience between songs. Pat Green finished the show with his Grammy nominated hit, “Wave on Wave.”
Through events such as this one, The GCCISD Education Foundation has been able to provide more than $1.9 million to district teachers in the last 14 years. Committee members review grant applications and award teachers with innovative teaching ideas.
For more information on future benefit events or other questions, contact the GCCISD Education Foundation office at 281-420-4800 or visit them on the web at www.gccisd.net/EducationFoundation.home.
Event sponsors include- Title Sponsor ($25,000): Patients Emergency Room and Hospital, Cattle Drive Sponsor ($15,000): Hotchkiss Disposal Service, Trail Boss Sponsors ($10,000): Bartlett Cocke, BDI Resources, Community Resource Credit Union, Covestro, Fueling Brains, and HEB, Chuckwagon Sponsors ($7,500): Pfluger Architects, Pardner Sponsors ($5,000): Chevron Phillips Chemical, Datavox, ExxonMobil, Facilities Sources, Family First ER, Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, PBK, Stantec Architecture, Walsh, Gallegos, Trevino, Kyle & Robinson, JAD Associates, LLC, Wrangler Sponsors ($2,500): Awards & Engraving, Beacon Federal Credit Union, Comex Corporation, Community Toyota*Honda*Kia*Cartopia, First Financial Capital Corporation, Gul Coast Educators FCU, Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital, McGriff Insurance Services, O’Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo, Reid, Strickland & Gillette, LLP, SMP Supply, Thompson & Horton LLP, Zachry Group, Tumbleweed Sponsors ($1,000): Aesthetic Family Dentistry, Joyce & David Kadjar, Debbie and John Barbosa Care of Challenge Office Products, Educator’s Depot, Inc, Elissa & Jeremy Sangster and Brent & Carole Perry, EMA Engineering & Consulting, Enterprise Products, Frank & LaNelle McKay and Frank & Ginger McKay, Goose Creek CISD, Harris County Insurance Center, Harris County Precint 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia, JMB2 Architecture, Kiwanis Club of Baytown, Lee College, Neighbors Emergency Center, PHYSIO Physical Therapy & Wellness, South Shore Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery – John J. Lovoi, Jr. DDS, Stormwater Professionals Group, Texas First Bank, TGS Cedar Port, Horseshoe Sponsors ($500): AGiRepair, Don and Susan Harper, Dr. and Mrs. Greg Terry, ezTask, Financial Benefit Services, LLC, Gold Star Petroleum, Inc., Progress Learning, RaaWee K12 Solutions, Raba Kistner, Randy Casey State Farm Insurance, Stellar Bank, and Tarkett