Alvin Independent School District - Each student, Every day.

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!

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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.

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

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!

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!

Serving is a part of life for members of the Alvin ISD Board of Trustees. As we wrap up #AlvinISDServes around the district, the Board took time to serve gumbo to the AISD Maintenance Department!

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! Get in the holiday spirit and come see Elf, the Musical, presented by Manvel High School Fine Arts. The show runs from December 8-10! For ticket information, visit https://manvelhs.booktix.com/

From a string hung across the middle of the room for her students to try a turkey flying-stem challenge, to a corner dedicated to how her 5th graders would model a Mars colony, in Adrianna Sanchez Cantu’s Gifted and Talented classroom at Bel Nafegar Sanchez Elementary, student ingenuity is on display from wall to wall and floor to ceiling. “In GT, we have the opportunity to experience learning in a more complex way,” she said. “We use a project-based approach embedded with STEM learning. My students surprise me with their projects every year, and I can also see the impact these lessons have in their daily lives.” That dedication to challenging gifted students to be creative, think outside the box, and problem-solve earned Sanchez Cantu the 2022 Texas Association for Gifted and Talented Educator of the Gifted award. According to TAGT, the Educator of the Gifted award is given in recognition of exemplary strategies in meeting the intellectual, social and emotional needs of gifted students through the delivery of curriculum and instruction. Sanchez Cantu will be officially recognized at the association's annual conference this week. She said the news came as a shock to her when she got the call from TAGT Director Paulina Van Eeden while working with her after-school robotics team. “I was surprised, to say the least, then I felt grateful and humbled,” Sanchez Cantu said. While she’s nervous to present during the conference’s Master Mind session, it will be a learning experience much like those she focuses on with her students.

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