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Arlington ISD receives $450,000 grant from Texas Workforce Commission JET grant helps students in the medical and automotive fields

October 4, 2023
Grant (JET grant) from Texas Workforce Commission

Grant is funding health science and automotive equipment Last week the Arlington ISD got to celebrate the fact that the district received more than $450,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission as part of the Regional Jobs for Education for Texans (JET) Grant. There was a check presentation with Arlington ISD interim superintendent Dr. Steven Wurtz…

Pre-K teacher shares her Hispanic culture with students Arlington ISD celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

October 3, 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month- Blanca Wiegman, pre-K teacher at Bebensee Elementary

Teaching is the joy of Blanca Wiegman’s life We’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by spotlighting several Arlington ISD staff members about their Hispanic heritage. This week we caught up with Blanca Wiegman, a pre-K teacher at Bebensee Elementary School. 〉How long have you been a teacher? And how long at Bebensee and Arlington ISD? Being…

Explore Arlington ISD event is Oct. 24 Specialized programs application window also opens Oct. 24

October 3, 2023
specialized programs - Explore Arlington ISD

Circle your calendars for Tuesday, Oct. 24. That’s when the window for enrolling students for specialized programs for the 2023-24 school year opens. And what better way to kick off that window than with a big event? And this year’s Explore Arlington ISD is bigger than ever. That’s what happens when you continue to provide new opportunities…

First Pre-K and Kinder STEM Spectacular is STEMtacular Littlest learners dress as superheroes and have fun with STEM

October 2, 2023
STEMtacular Pre-K STEM Spectacular

STEMtacular event includes entire families If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? To fly? Teleport? Super strength perhaps?  Here at Arlington ISD, superpowers are endless. Our superheroes [our teachers] are always finding ways to launch every child’s learning experience every single day and help them become superheroes themselves!   That’s why last week our…

Thornton Elementary Tigers dedicate their new school New building replaces original school built in 1956

September 29, 2023
Thornton Elementary ribbon cutting

Thornton celebrates with singing, dancing and tamales Tamara Edwards, Thornton Elementary School’s music teacher, lined her choir students up on the stage stairs and then sat down at the piano. The standing-room-only crowd in the cafetorium, along with the overflow in the library watching the live stream, waited patiently for the students to start singing…

Make-A-Wish surprises pre-K student with trip to Disney World Foster Elementary 4-year-old off to see Mickey Mouse with parents and two brothers

September 29, 2023
Make-A-Wish surprise for Foster Elementary per-K student

Make-A-Wish surprised student at school Foster Elementary pre-K student Ayden Borrego may be too young to understand everything he’s been through. He was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 1. What 1-year-old understands that? He doesn’t know the background of Make-A-Wish either. Not a lot of 4-year-olds do. But Ayden does know what Disney World…