I would like to thank all of you for your dedication and support given to our 2015 Thanksgiving Holiday Giving efforts. We were able to provide 210 families from the Alief community with a blessed Thanksgiving meal. A very special thank you goes to Brad Branson, who is also one of our amazing Alief YMCA [...]
Alief ISD was recognized by the Children’s Defense Fund and AASA, the School Superintendents Association, as a Texas educational leader working to provide resources to uninsured students and their families so that they can obtain low-cost or free health care coverage. According to the Children’s Defense Fund Texas Associate Director Laura Guerra-Cardus, school districts like [...]
Hastings High School senior Priscilla Cao was nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum: Medicine. This high school medical summer program in Washington, D.C. will allow participants to gain real-world medical career experience and explore professional career opportunities in the expanding fields of medicine and health care. Taylor High School student Vivian Duong was [...]
Here is how you can support access for families during the holidays: Donate a Thanksgiving meal for a family that includes any or all of the following (frozen 10-12 pound turkey, uncooked, packaged traditional sides, desserts or non-alcoholic beverages) Donate a Christmas gift for a youth in need including the following (appropriate sized clothing items, [...]
Alief Early College High School received the AVID Schoolwide Site of Distinction. This is the highest level of AVID implementation fidelity demonstrating excellence in instructional practice and the promotion of college readiness schoolwide. Less than 10 percent of all AVID middle and high schools worldwide are a part of this elite group of schools. Elsik [...]
Come network with the International District, our business partners, the community leaders, and see what we've done to turn the "space" green.
Alief ISD teachers have been selected to receive training from non-profit organization Neuhaus Education Center. The center understands Alief ISD is committed to quality literacy instruction, and the selected pre-kindergarten teachers will receive customized job-embedded coaching, four full days of training sessions and assessment data to drive instruction. The teachers chosen to participate are: Rachel [...]
By Roxanna Asgarian, Houston Business Journal As the chasm between education and the workforce has widened on a national scale, Texas has made strides to try to address the problem, including a program that just launched this fall. House Bill 5, which was passed in 2013, made big changes to the curriculum in Texas schools. [...]
By Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle Feng shui is paying off for Houston-based Whitestone REIT at its Lion Square shopping center redevelopment in southwest Houston’s Asian district. Sam’s Spa Nail Supply has signed a new 12,260-square-foot lease that boosts occupancy at Lion Square to 94 percent. The 117,600-square-foot shopping center is at the northeast corner of [...]
Watch the video of our Fun Fall Fest and Farmers Market held on October 10, 2015.
