AISD makes way for ducklings

AISD employee and construction workers rescue ducks

June 6, 2019 – A construction site is not a safe place for a family of ducks. But that’s exactly where a momma duck and her 10 little ducklings found themselves on Monday – at the construction site of the AISD’s future Arlington College and Career High School, scheduled to open in August. As the…

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Citizen Bond Oversight Committee reports to the Board

BOND 2014 logo

May 17, 2019 – The Citizens Bond Oversight Committee Chair, William Deakyne, presented the committee’s annual report to the AISD Board of Trustee’s at last night’s board meeting. See the presentation. The Citizens Bond Oversight Committee (“Committee”) was established to provide transparency and enhance public confidence in the use of proceeds from the sale of…

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AISD junior highs “love” new tracks

Bailey Junior High students sprint on their new track

May 2019 – Setting up cones in a grass field to simulate the lane on a track isn’t the best way to practice relay handoffs. But that’s exactly what Arlington ISD junior high track athletes did every year – until this year. “It was extremely difficult to prepare for track meets without a real track,”…

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See latest bond dashboard

Screenshot image of a portion of the fine arts dashboard page

April 25, 2019 – Click on the image below to view the April 2019 bond progress dashboard in its entirety. The pdf document includes four pages, one for each area of the bond: facilities; safety, security and technology; fine arts and transportation. For optimal viewing, download the pdf.

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3D modeling helps design, build AISD Fine Arts Center and Athletics Complex

3D BIM model image of the future AISD Athletics Comple

April 24, 2019 – A building is like your body. That’s the analogy that Mitchell Osborne, Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) coordinator for Adolfson and Peterson Construction, gives when explaining the value of 3D building information modeling (BIM) and how 3D modeling is helping plan and construct the future AISD Fine Arts Center and Athletics Complex. [Learn…

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Annual Media Fair April 23!

Media Fair 2019 logo

The Technology Integration & Innovation Department will showcase and recognize outstanding student work at its annual Media Fair event on Tuesday, April 23! The purpose of the event is to demonstrate how technology can be used to empower K-12 students’ mastery of meaningful learning objectives. Much of the technology was funded by the 2014 Bond…

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