All rising ninth-grade students and their parents are invited to come and receive choice sheet information for the 2015–16 school year. Hear information on career pathways, HB5, electives and required courses. Meet your new principal and counselors!
What: McCallum Career Pathway Showcase
Who: Rising ninth-graders
When: Feb. 23
Schedule: Career pathway showcase at 5 p.m. in the gym. Info session at 6:30 p.m. in the theater.
Summitt Elementary School is gearing up to celebrate Tet, the most important and popular holiday in Vietnam.
What: A fundraising dinner, followed by a performance followed by a dragon dance. The performance includes a martial arts demonstration, singing, dancing and taiko drums. Tickets are $3 for general seating, $5-10 for seating in the first 10 rows and $5 for dinner.
Counselor Yvonne Espinoza has earned the Counselors That Change Lives award from national nonprofit Colleges That Change Lives.
Espinoza, a Project Advance college counselor at Gonzalo Garza Independence High School earned the award for work that reflects the mission of CTCL: to promote and support a student-centered college search process.
O. Henry Middle School has partnered with Revolution Foods in a six-month pilot program to provide healthy, affordable meals to students. This event will celebrate the first month of partnership.
Who: Chief Schools Officer Edmund Oropez, Chief Operating Officer Dr. Lawrence Fryer, Chief of Staff Mel Waxler, O. Henry Principal Pete Price, Revolution Foods CEO Kristin Richmond
When: 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11
Where: O. Henry Middle School, 2610 W. 10th St.
Austin ISD congratulates Liberal Arts and Science Academy senior Sesha McMinn for earning a perfect score on her AP Spanish Language and Culture exam.
When the College Board released details of the 2014 tests recently, LASA officials learned that McMinn was one of only 91 students in the world to earn every point possible on the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam.
Austin ISD’s Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee is hosting a Sustainability Resource Fair to help schools start or enhance green initiatives at their school.
Hi! This is Pauline Caldwell, a sixth-grader at Mathews Elementary. I am shadowing Ms. Blair at Austin ISD, and I get to learn about all of the cool things she does.
Today also happens to be the Go Red day where everyone in Austin ISD participates in wearing the color red in effort to raise awareness that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the United States.
I have some photos that are also going to be posted on social media under the hashtags #GoRed and #AISDWearsRed.
Join Pease Elementary School to celebrate Black History Month with an event debuting a portrait of Olyvia Green, the first African-American teacher at Pease.
On Feb. 4, Bedichek Middle School was selected to join the ranks of approximately 140 AVID National Demonstration Schools.
AVID—Advancement Via Individual Determination—is a kindergarten through postsecondary curriculum that aims to turn underperforming students into college-going scholars and graduates.
"It is a tremendous honor to be selected as a demo, and we are proud of our AVID program and our school as a whole," said Principal Dan Diehl. "We are fired up."
Bedichek Middle School was selected to join the ranks of approximately 140 Advancement Via Individual Determination National Demonstration Schools. AVID is a kindergarten through postsecondary curriculum that has turned thousands of underperforming students into confident, college-going scholars and graduates.
