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Family Newsletter
By Nayeli Santoyo & Collaborators ● Apr 25, 2024
Smart Brevity® count: 2.5 mins...728 words
Hello families!👋🌸
Hope you all are enjoying the last days of April.
📣 Reminders: Board regular board meeting this evening. Check the board documents to learn more about the agenda items.
📆 Don’t forget to check the 2024-25 school year calendar! The Board of Trustees approved the calendar in December and here two important things to know:
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Austin ISD Spring Break is not aligned with SXSW next year. The district adopted the calendar, along with UT and ACC, before SXSW organizers announced its new dates.
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Aug. 20 is the first day of school.
✅ Vote, vote, vote for the May 4 election! Early voting is open to elect three members of the Travis Central Appraisal District Board of Directors.
🎉 We’re celebrating Austin ISD Administrative Professionals and School Volunteer Appreciation Week! Thank you to our indispensable staff and dedicated parent volunteers for their incredible support. 💛
Now, let’s start with this edition…
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1 big thing: It’s Austin ISD Earth Week!
Austin ISD students during "The Food of the Future" tasting event at Central Office.
This week we’re putting our focus on Mother Earth as we celebrate and learn how to live sustainably to ensure a healthy future for our planet.
Why it matters: We’re growing a new generation of stewards of our environment and the work that happens in our schools will affect our communities for years to come.
Check out the great things happening at our schools as part of Earth Week:
♻ Cyril Summerfield, a Marshall Middle School sixth-grade student created a machine-learning project to detect waste to help students and staff put the waste into the correct bins (think compost, recycling, trash bins).
🦗 This semester, students from four high schools teamed up with chefs and food producers to create innovative dishes using unique and sustainable ingredients such as seaweed, crickets, mushrooms and plant proteins. Read more about “The Food of the Future” project.
☀ Austin ISD’s commitment to renewable energy is unmatched, producing more solar power than all other TX school districts combined!
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McCallum student named 2024 national Journalist of the Year
Alice Scott is Texas’ eighth winner of the national award, which consists of a $3,000 scholarship, according to the Journalism Education Association.
Why it matters: JEA awards gives students a platform to showcase their work and receive the recognition they deserve.
What they’re saying: “I think what’s really special about this award it’s not just something someone has nominated me for or that they looked at one of my stories and said, ‘this is great,’” Scott said. “It was really showing everything I’ve gotten to do while I’ve been here.”
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Scott is the co-editor of The Shield; an online and print publication by journalism students in the newspaper production class at McCallum High School.
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In February Scott was named Texas Journalist of the Year by the Texas Association of Journalism Educators.
Scott plans to attend college where she’ll major in journalism and a minor in Spanish.
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This week, I had the opportunity to explore the 'Food of the Future' tasting! Chatting with the students at the food showcase was a blast. They used healthy and unique ingredients —like crickets, and every dish was beautifully presented.
Amazing talent!😍
Musubi, Kelp Shells, Chocolate cinnamon cricket cake, Mushroom bread bowl (Left to Right)
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I tasted all the dishes… YES!…including the cricket cake 🦗🫢😮💨
All of them were delicious, but the 🍄 mushroom bread bowl was hands down my favorite! I'm not a mushroom lover, but this dish was delicious!
🏆 Kudos to all participating students, dedicated teachers, chefs, the food service department, food partners and all who made this event a success.
📣 Families, don’t forget—Austin ISD offers many programs that empower your kids with skills to chase their dreams post-high school!
Nayeli 💛
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