Last week (Oct. 10th-14th), Austin ISD celebrated its annual AISD Pride Week, timed to coincide with National Coming Out Day on October 11th. Once again, schools from all over our city showed up to celebrate and honor the LBGTQ+ faculty, staff, students and families that are members of our vibrant education community!
The Akins High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA-formerly Gay Straight Alliance) started mass producing ally stickers and buttons for distribution across the entire campus!
Reagan High School teachers and students filled the #AISDPride photobooth in the library.
Consuelo Mendez Middle School students created a pledge committing to help generate a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for all, and got as many of their peers to sign it as possible–resulting in hundreds of signatures collected and courtyard lunch privileges! 8th Grader Corey collected 74 signatures just by himself.
Cowan Elementary made a welcoming billboard full of love for the school community…
And Patton Elementary had their own bilingual display of love and welcome!
These four schools are just a few glowing examples of how AISD showed our pride! Twitter blew up with all kinds of celebrations of AISD Pride Week:
We are #AISDProud of our school district working to serve and celebrate our whole community in all its beautiful diversity…#AllMeansAll!
AISD Social and Emotional Learning 