July 2020

AISD to Provide Free Produce Boxes featuring Texas-Grown Foods / El AISD distribuirá cajas de frutas y vegetales gratis que contienen alimentos cultivados en Texas

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Beginning July 22, families will receive free produce boxes at AISD curbside meal sites.

The boxes will feature locally grown produce, such as peppers, melons, squash, carrots and other seasonal staples. The Common Market Texas, a mission-driven distributor of sustainable, local farm foods will prepare and deliver the produce boxes to AISD.

Summer Vision 2020: Edition 6, July 16 / Visión del Verano de 2020: Edición 6, 16 de julio

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Need to know: 2020–21 School Year to Begin with Virtual Instruction

As you may have heard, Austin ISD will suspend in-person education and deliver virtual instruction for the first three weeks of the 2020–21 school year. We will continue to look to federal, state and local authorities for guidance and directives. You can anticipate further communication on how we have made things more efficient, rigorous and engaging in the near future. In the meantime, we want you to know:

AISD Help

Announcements

We are now using AISD Help for general questions, feedback, and concerns, and Safe Space for anonymous reporting. This reporting tool makes it easy and confidential for students and families to report bullying, harassment, or other personal crises. 

Austin ISD to Host Reopening Information Sessions

Austin ISD will host two virtual information sessions to help give students, families and staff a stronger sense of what the return to school will look and feel like in August. 

AISD invites its learning communities to participate in the reopening conversation. Participants will get a look into "a day in the life" of at-home distance learning and on-campus face-to-face learning. Events will be streamed on Facebook Live with consecutive Spanish interpretation. 

Topics:

At-Home Distance Teaching & Learning

Austin ISD Online Learning/Professional Learning FAQ // Preguntas frecuentes sobre el aprendizaje en línea y el aprendizaje profesional del Austin ISD

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Will my child be learning online or in the school building?

There is lots of uncertainty right now about who will be face to face in our schools and at what point teachers will be back in classrooms with teachers. Austin ISD will follow health guidance from local, state and federal officials in order to make the best decisions to keep our students and families safe. In the short term, it has been decided that all instruction will be virtual from August 18 to September 7.