In today’s update, AISD provides the locations and bus schedule for mobile WiFi access for students, details about services related to special education, information about the new AISD At-Home Learning website and a video message from Superintendent Doug Loomis. 

As reports of possible coronavirus cases continue to spread across the country and get closer to our community, Amarillo ISD has taken additional steps to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in our schools.  

The Tenor/Bass Choir from de Zavala Middle School gave a special performance of a song they presented at the Texas Music Educators Association 2020 Convention in San Antonio. The boys choir, directed by Bryan Hackett, was selected based on audition tapes, as one of only 13 choirs chosen to perform at TMEA this year. This is essentially the equivalent of a state championship for middle and high school music groups in Texas. 

Amarillo ISD, in partnership with the Panhandle Restaurant Association, is aiming to get local families talking around the dinner table, passing out thousands of conversation starter cards to restaurants in the community.  

Amarillo ISD will partner with Amarillo College and Texas Tech University on a 2 + 1 teacher certification program that will put additional teachers in AISD classrooms as soon as the 2021-2022 school year. 

A student mental wellness program that connects teens to counselors via phone or video chat for mental and behavioral health appointments is now available to all AISD secondary students.