Our Chapters
North Texas
After-School All-Stars (ASAS) North Texas is devoted to the improvement and empowerment of all-inclusive education. One example would be Edward H. Cary Middle School (Cary Middle School), which had been identified as an “Improvement Required” school by the state. ASAS North Texas launched at Cary Middle School in 2014 with a mission to partner with the school’s academic staff to improve overall student performance. The school had experienced significant turnover in leadership and faculty and needed a partner to engage and develop students through enrichment. Since ASAS North Texas launched at the school and worked closely with teachers and staff to provide students with more than academic support after school, Cary Middle School has since then renounced their “Improvement Required” status.
ASAS North Texas strives to provide a sense of continuity with all program activities. The site coordinator and program staff partner together to familiarize themselves with each student’s personal needs. This collaboration has allowed for a strong partnership to emerge between the school and ASAS North Texas program staff. Through continued collaboration, ASAS North Texas works with the school administration to ensure all partnership goals are aligned to enhance academic and social-emotional learning. Both ASAS and the school staff communicate proactively to provide students with the necessary skills for advancing successfully through middle school and beyond. Our hope is to provide students with the necessary enrichment programs to develop their own individual skillsets.
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671Students
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6Schools
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100%QUALIFY FOR FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH PROGRAM
Demographic
- Hispanic/Latinx 71%
- Black/African American 26%
- White 3%
Expenses
- 77% Program
- 14% Administration
- 9% Fundraising
Leadership
Marissa Castro Mikoy
Executive Director
Ben Lange
Board Chair
Marissa Castro Mikoy
Executive Director
Spotlight
Marissa Castro Mikoy
Executive Director
Marissa Castro Mikoy, After-School All-Stars North Texas Executive Director, holds over 20 years of professional experience in the education and non-profit sector. Prior to joining the ASAS team, Marissa worked with the nonprofit Dallas Afterschool, where she was focused on building and implementing continuous quality improvement systems within the Dallas community. She moved back to her home state of Texas in 2011, from Washington DC, where she worked with the DC Public Charter School Board. Marissa was entrusted with providing academic and operational performance oversight to DC charter schools as well as providing early childhood technical support. Marissa was influential in leading a city-wide task force of DC charter schools in the development of an Early Childhood Performance Management Framework that is being used to assess DC public charter schools using common goals and metrics.
Marissa’s work experience includes directing and leading early childhood programs with several grassroots nonprofits, as well as working with national nonprofits in fundraising and community organizing. Marissa has worked on early childhood and education policy issues at the local and national level and is passionate about increasing the level of quality of education in under-resourced communities. In 2012, Marissa was honored at the White House by President Obama’s Administration as a “Champion of Change” for her work in AmeriCorps and career dedication to social justice and education. She is a graduate of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where she earned a degree in Business Administration and Management and holds a Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate from Georgetown University. Marissa lives in Dallas with her husband and two sons, Xavier and Sebastian.
