(Updated March 17, 2024) Austin Voices sponsored a week of events centered on the theme "Equity in Action" from March 4-7, 2024. The events included our annual "Stand Up for Schools" luncheon on March 4th, a national webinar on "High-Stakes Testing and Accountability" on March 5th, our first "Equity Bus Tour" visiting AVEY FRCs and [...]
Update: Austin Voices is hosting two virtual "Our Voices" virtual conversations on Wednesday, February 21 (English) and Thursday, February 22 (Spanish), focused on continuing equity issues in east Austin schools. These conversations will be facilitated by our Community Block Leaders, in preparation for the week of "Stand Up for Schools" equity-focused events, March 4-7. Zoom [...]
As AISD campuses recovered from the effect of COVID (and a round of devastating budget cuts by the district under the previous superintendent), Austin Voices Family Resource Centers brought much needed stabilizing resources to families, community events, parent engagement and leadership training, adult education and and dozens of community partnerships that brought volunteers, mentors, services [...]
The 8th annual Texas Community Schools Summit will be held in Austin, TX on June 5-6, 2024. More details coming soon, including link to registration! Read below about last year's Summit, which was attended by over 100 community school practitioners from 20+ campuses and school districts. Austin Voices is sponsoring the 7th annual [...]
AVEY By the Numbers (July 1, 2022) The past school year has been a challenging time for students, campus staff and families as schools have transitioned to in-person learning, even as the pandemic has continued. In addition to helping students close learning gaps caused by the pandemic, schools have also had to deal with health [...]
(Update-April, 2022): Since the beginning of the federal HRSA COVID-19 vaccination grant, Austin Voices has hired and trained 40 parents as "Promotoras" (community health workers) who are active in the community supporting vaccinations. 5,206 recipients have been vaccinated and completed a survey that helps HRSA focus federal vaccine efforts more effectively. Local grant partners have [...]
Update (Feb. 10): Approximately 80 people, including parents, teachers/staff, students, community and AISD administration attended the community planning dinner at Martin on Monday, Feb. 7 in the cafeteria from 6 to 8 pm. Click here for notes. Notes have been sent to AISD school board and administration. The next planning meeting of Martin United/Martin Unidos, [...]
Update (Feb. 10): Dobie PTA leaders met with AVEY staff on Thursday, Feb. 3 to continue planning around concerns with the leadership changes and principal process at Dobie. Trustee LaTisha Anderson also attended. During the meeting, Trustee Anderson called both the head of AISD Human Resources as well as Supt. Elizalde to get answers to [...]
Austin Voices hosted a Virtual Town Hall Meeting streaming on Facebook Live around the topic "Equity is a Verb" on Thursday, December 12, 2019 at Webb Middle School. Panelists included Jitu Brown, Founder and Director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, Dr. Stephanie Hawley, Chief Equity Officer at Austin ISD, and Jose Carrasco, Austin Voices [...]
Austin Voices' HopeFest event, held on October 26, 2019, just received a "Critics Pick" Best of 2019 award from The Austin Chronicle! This amazing event, in its 14th year, has become Austin's largest campus-based family resource event. Sponsored by Austin Voices in partnership with local schools, community organizations, churches and businesses, HopeFest has become a [...]
