Seniors at Northside ISD’s Construction Careers Academy have taken on the biggest challenge of their high school careers over the past several months- designing and building three homes from shipping containers.
News Archive
May 11, 2015
The Northside Learning Tree After School Program is seeking outgoing, energetic, and positive role models to fill 70 part-time youth leader positions. Interested applicants should stop by the Learning Tree Job Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., May 15 at 6632 Bandera Road, Building F.
May 10, 2015
Google apps and mobile devices. Robotics and flipped classrooms. Northside schools are integrating technology in unique ways to engage students in learning and an annual event allows students and teachers to share the successes from their campuses.
May 8, 2015
Northside ISD is hiring 85 bus drivers. Positions are available with full District benefits at a variety of geographic locations within Northside.
May 7, 2015
Despite cloudy skies, the 19th Texas Solar Race Car Event went on with battery-powered assistance on May 16 at Gustafson Stadium.
May 6, 2015
Northside ISD recognized hundreds of campus volunteers and business partners who donate their time and energy to enrich the education of thousands of NISD students.
May 6, 2015
This week’s Video of the Week features Principal Debra Piñon who will serve as the first principal for the District’s 75th elementary school, Herbert G. Boldt ES, opening in August 2015.
May 5, 2015
Original artwork from hundreds of elementary, middle, and high school students will be showcased at Northside’s annual ArtFest May 8 and May 9 at Paul Taylor Field House, 7001 Culebra Road.
May 3, 2015
More than 1,400 NISD string students will have the opportunity of a lifetime when they learn from and perform with Mark Wood, a string master and founding member of the internationally- acclaimed Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
April 30, 2015
Northside ISD is projecting more than 2,800 students to register in Pre-Kindergarten, a program for four-year-old children offered in 75 neighborhood elementary schools for next year. Registration starts Monday, May 4.
April 29, 2015
Registration for Pre-K is just around a corner. Take a look inside a NISD Pre-Kindergarten classroom, and you'll see that our youngest students are excited about school! Their work involves using educational toys and games to teach concept and skills in literacy, math, science, and socials studies.
April 29, 2015
Northside Independent School District, the state’s fourth largest and one of the fastest growing districts in Texas, will hire around 800 teachers and other staff in the next 90 days.
April 29, 2015
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: approved 173 additional campus staff to accommodate growth and the opening of Boldt ES, approved the District calendar for 2016-2017, and appointed four elementary principals.
April 28, 2015
Sixth, seventh and eighth grade choir students from 18 middle schools will sing and dance together for the eighth annual “Together We Sing” performance, being held at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 2 at Paul Taylor Field House.
April 28, 2015
On Sunday, May 3, be prepared to visit a lemonade stand near you. More than 6,000 students from 81 NISD elementary and middle schools will participate in “Lemonade Day” in Northside. They are enrolled in Northside ISD’s Learning Tree After School Enrichment Program.
April 22, 2015
Northside leaders broke ground Wednesday on “Kallison Ranch area” high school, the working name for the District’s 11th comprehensive high school, which will open in fall 2017.
April 22, 2015
The name of the school and its location have changed over the years but the mission of the Irene L. Chavez Excel Academy has always remained the same – to serve as an academic alternative high school for students at risk of dropping out. Now 25 years later, the school is celebrating not only a milestone anniversary, but a new name in honor of its longtime leader.
April 20, 2015
For the second time in 2015, Northside ISD is headed to space. Two seniors at Business Careers High School, Kaitlyn Bloch and John Gonzales, developed an experiment that will head to the International Space Station in summer 2015.
April 15, 2015
The O’Connor High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) will host a workshop called “Can Your Teen Say No?” on Wednesday, April 29, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The workshop is opened to all NISD parents and students.
April 15, 2015
Everybody needs a hero to look up to that will serve as a mentor. Almost 51,000 elementary students across Northside ISD, and thousands more across the city of San Antonio, were inspired by local heroes during “Heroes for Health Day,” a collaborative effort across the county to stress the importance of health and fitness for children.
April 14, 2015
On Wednesday, April 15, 96 percent of the junior class will be taking the SAT college entrance exam at their home campus.
April 14, 2015
April marks the nation’s Month of the Military Child. As a way to honor military youth affected by deployment, school district employees and students across the state are encouraged to wear purple on Wednesday, April 15, as part of “Purple Up! for Military Kids.”
April 9, 2015
Three Northside ISD schools celebrated the “Month of the Family” on Saturday, April 11 by beautifying their schools. This is the second year for the event.
April 8, 2015
It has been an active spring in Northside ISD with a special announcement at the Northside Swim Center, a surprise announcement for an Aue ES teacher who is a finalist for the prestigious H-E-B Excellence in Education award, and the rededication of a baseball field named for an individual who advocated for fitness facilities for students. Click here to see what’s happening in NISD.
April 7, 2015
Construction Careers Academy, Stevens High School, and Mead Elementary School are champions in the 2015 Silver and Black Give Back Team Up Challenge and each will receive $20,000 to continue their community service projects.
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