On Monday, Dec. 19, Austin ISD's Board of Trustees approved the appointments of two new AISD principals.
Crockett High School
Kori Crawford was appointed as the leader of Crockett High School.
Destination Life—Regional Transition Fair is for special education students and their families to prepare for life beyond high school and includes job training, continuing education, living options and more!
Austin ISD joins nine area school districts to host the event, which will feature more than 75 booths and and vendors. Join us from 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. March 4 at Round Rock High School.
Speaker sessions in English and Spanish, as well as Spanish interpretation, will be provided. Food will be available for purchase from Hat Creek food truck.
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Contact information: Renee Borders at renee.borders@austinisd.org or 512-414-6379, or Claire Dixon at claire.dixon@austinisd.org or 512-414-5832 (bilingual)
Click here to see a flier on the event with more information.
Click here to register for the event.
We hope to see you there!
For the first time, Austin ISD is one of 433 school districts in the U.S. and Canada and one of 23 districts in Texas being honored by the College Board with placement on the 7th Annual AP District Honor Roll. To be included on the 7th Annual Honor Roll, the district had to increase the number of students participating in Advanced Placement while also increasing or maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher for three consecutive years.
A recent social media campaign is encouraging donations to school districts to help offset negative balances on student meal accounts.
Food Services Director Anneliese Tanner said that at Austin ISD, no students are ever denied a meal because their accounts aren't current.
Instead, the district absorbs the cost of feeding all students who need a lunch, running at a deficit of about $14,000 on any given day.
Austin ISD will be closed for the winter break Wednesday, Dec. 21, through Monday, Jan. 2.
All AISD offices and schools will be closed during this period.
Regular business hours resume Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, for staff. Students return to classes on Wednesday, Jan. 4.
For information about upcoming AISD holidays and events, please visit the district's calendar at austinisd.org/calendar.
Three Austin donors—the Buena Vista Foundation, the Klein Family Foundation and the Tapestry Foundation—recently announced their commitment to donate $2 million as a reinvestment into AISD’s Social and Emotional Learning initiative. The matching grant is an invitation to the Austin community to support a deeper integration of SEL into the practice of all AISD schools.
Research has established a link between the social emotional well-being of students and their level of academic engagement.
Austin ISD's technology department has found a way to get report cards and progress reports to families of middle school and high school students more quickly. The district will be going digital on all report cards for secondary students this month for their third six-weeks report cards.
Of the approximately 23,000 secondary students overall, 9,292 students are already opting for digital report cards.
Austin ISD Community,
You may have heard about a new A–F rating system for Texas schools. I want to share some information about the new system so you are aware of how our district and schools will be measured by the state beginning in 2018.
