At the board meeting last night, the Alvin ISD Board approved the calendar for the 2023-24 school year. Take a look! https://bit.ly/3CI9V6G
Good luck to the TCU Horned Frogs and Shadow Creek Alum Terrence Cooks Jr. as they play for a National Championship tonight!
The Turtles are here! It's time to adopt your turtles for the 2023 Alvin ISD Education Foundation Turtle Race! To adopt turtles and sign up for the 5K and Fun Run, visit www.alvinisd.net/turtlerace
Yee-Haw! Want to see some amazing student artwork? Join us on January 12 at Liberty Alumni Hall at Freedom Field for the Alvin ISD Rodeo Art Open House!
January is School Board Recognition Month and Alvin ISD is celebrating our trustees for their dedication and commitment to the District and our students! #SchoolBoardMonth
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Vote for Iowa Colony HS football for Dave Campbell 4A Team of the Year! https://www.texasfootball.com/team-of-the-week/form
We hope our Alvin ISD family has a safe and happy holiday break! Staff returns on Monday, January 2, and students return on Tuesday, January 3.
A reminder that tomorrow is an early release day for all Alvin ISD schools. Holiday Break begins Monday, December 19, through Monday, January 2. Students return Tuesday, January 3, 2023!
On Friday, all 133 EC Mason Elementary third graders participated in a giant literacy rally held at JB Hensler. The rally, part of the NCAA Read to the Final Four Literacy Tour, had different stations for students to participate in. Read more here! https://bit.ly/3WmLuDe
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Smith for being named Director of Advanced Academics and Chad Fontenot for being named Director of Safety at last night's board meeting!
Just dance!
To celebrate national Computer Science Education Week, 3rd-5th graders at Pomona, Don Jeter, and Nelson Elementary coded their own dance parties as they participated in the international #HourofCode.
Hour of Code challenges schools and students to do one hour of computer programming during Computer Science Education Week.
This year, AISD's students completed their Hour of Code by programming a dance party. They used blocks of code to choose different dancers, change their dance moves, make them respond to the music, and make them interactive as they worked through 10 computer science lessons.
The #HourofCode activities introduce students to the fundamentals of computer science and provide them with an opportunity to try coding in a fun, interactive way, said Charles Bagley, AISD's Coordinator of Technology Integration, who helped organize the event.
"Computer science offers our students life-changing and economic opportunities, whether they pursue careers in technology or not," Bagley said.
A reminder that this Friday, December 16, is an early release day for all Alvin ISD schools. Holiday Break begins Monday, December 19, through Monday, January 2. Students return Tuesday, January 3, 2023!
Today, the five winning students of the Alvin ISD Superintendent Holiday Card Contest and their art teachers were bussed to the Administration Building for a special lunch with Superintendent Nelson. Take a look at the video!
Superintendent Nelson and district leaders met with Rep Ed Thompson to discuss legislative priorities for public schools.
Winter Break is December 19, 2022 - January 2, 2023.
There will be an early release on Friday, December 16.
Staff returns on Monday, January 2, 2023. Students return on January 3, 2023!
Join Alvin ISD FFA for Christmas at the Barn!
Inclusive teaching means presenting information in ways that are relevant and meaningful to each and every student. Discussion, hands-on learning experiences, and inquiry-based projects are
all examples of inclusive teaching practices that have, again and again, been shown to improve academic achievement for all students. I challenge each school in Alvin ISD and across the nation and globe to join us in celebrating #InclusiveSchoolsWeek. To celebrate, please visit http://www.inclusiveschools.org #ISW2022 #InclusiveSchools
694,270! That is how many minutes our Alvin ISD third graders read during the first week of the NCAA Read to the Final Four! Congratulations to Nelson Elementary, Jeter Elementary, Disney Elementary, and Wilder Elementary! These schools won the district weekly travelling trophy for their feeder patterns!
Read to the Final Four is an annual literacy initiative led by the 2023 NCAA® Men’s Final Four and Houston Local Organizing Committee (HLOC). The Read to the Final Four's purpose is to promote and inspire reading for third graders through a fun and engaging bracket-style competition. Alvin ISD is one of 11 school districts across the Houston area participating in this fun event.
This week kicked off a five-week reading season. In January, 2023, there will be a school bracket seeding which will be composed of top 64 schools in the Houston area. In March, 2023, the top readers will be recognized during Men’s Final Four week and on March 31, 2023, the winning schools will be announced at the Reese’s Final Four Friday event with a cash prize given to the school with the most participation and minutes logged!
