The primary goal of Austin ISD family resource centers is to provide support, resources and leadership opportunities that promote well‐being, self-sufficiency and the engagement of family members in our public schools. Family resource centers are located on campus at participating schools and are operated in collaboration with Austin Voices for Education and Youth.
Families can receive support at the centers in these areas:
Beginning in 2010, SEL implementation began rolling out systems and strategies through AISD’s vertical team structure. A vertical team consists of a high school and its feeder middle and elementary schools. As of 2015–16, all schools in AISD are officially implementing SEL.
Austin ISD seniors will participate in Central Texas College Signing Day, a community-wide celebration that brings together 1,000 college-bound seniors from school districts throughout the region.
Inspired by the NCAA’s National Signing Day, College Signing Day reinforces the idea that excellence in the classroom should be given as much attention as excellence in athletics.
Please check the posted agendas for meeting times. The Multilingual Education Advisory Committee (MEAC) meetings are being held in-person and virtually. The meetings are open to the public.
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Tonight, Austin ISD’s Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Ashley Gonzalez as the new Austin ISD Police Chief.
The district held a nationwide search, reviewing applicants and conducting several interviews and screenings before moving forward with Gonzalez.
The Multilingual Education team puts into action Austin ISD’s belief that the linguistic and cultural richness of our students is a resource that should be recognized, valued, and sustained.
Austin ISD schools will be inclusive communities that celebrate all languages and cultures, where exemplary multilingual instructional programs provide high-quality teaching and learning so that all students excel and graduate prepared for active engagement in a global, multicultural society.
The mission of Austin ISD Multilingual Education is to promote academic excellence by meeting the affective, linguistic, and cognitive needs of multilingual learners.
The Multilingual Education team champions Dual Language, World Languages, and English as a Second Language opportunities for multilingual learners throughout the district. Guided by our vision and mission, we work to design, implement, and sustain systems that serve all students equitably. Alongside other district departments, we work collaboratively to help create safe and welcoming learning environments, communicate effectively with families, strengthen curriculum, and develop high quality instructional practices in every classroom.
Multilingual Education provides support for campuses through the work of its Elementary team, Secondary team, World Languages, International Welcome Center, and Compliance team.
Austin ISD is home to over 72,000 students. More than 22,000 students are identified as Emergent Bilingual (students who have a language other than English as a home language and who meet the Texas Education Agency’s eligibility criteria). Over 12,000 Emergent Bilingual students are in elementary, over 4,000 are in middle school, and over 5,000 are in high school. Austin ISD’s families speak more than 100 languages at home. The top seven home languages, other than English, are Spanish, Pashto, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Arabic, Dari, and Portuguese.
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Austin ISD's former Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) annually published a Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) Implementation Summary. These major reports analyzed the influence of CLI on students’ access to the arts over time. In 2024-25, 98 campuses are CLI schools; this includes all elementary schools. At the time of DRE's last report, 2018-19, 63 campuses—including 38,508 students and 2,763 teachers—participated in the CLI.
AISD is taking an important leadership role in the school garden movement by partnering with students, community members, teachers and administrators to develop a Garden to Café program that extends the lessons learned in the garden to the school café. Garden to Café is about serving healthy, fresh, garden-grown foods to students through school meal programs.
