Screening of "Backpack Full of Cash" 

Please join us Wednesday October 25 at 7pm in the PAC at Austin High School Entry is free but seating is limited.

“Riveting…Debunks the notion that market-based ‘reforms’ will improve public education.”
— David Sciarra, Executive Director, Education Law Center (Newark, NJ)

"Backpack Full of Cash" Website


Information on Past

 Parent Ed. Programs




Teri Wood, PH.D., NBCT
Trust-Based Relational Intervention and Brain Development Coordinator for Austin ISD, and Lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology at UT-Austin. 

The Teenage Brain:  It’s Real and It’s Amazing!
Explore how the adolescent brain evolves through the middle and high school years.  Learn about the vital changes to the brain that help to build positive foundational character traits that endure over the lifespan.  Discuss strategies you as a parent or caregiver can use to support healthy brain functioning in your teen.


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Adolescent Brain
by Keeth Matheny 
Location at AHS: Café Austin (2nd Floor) 
​6:30pm (PTSA General Meeting)

Click here to read more about THIS talk and Keeth Matheny
Click here to read about the adolescent brain
A Showing of the film
​"Most Likely to Succeed"
Location at AHS: Performing Arts Center (PAC) ​
6:30pm (PTSA General Meeting) 

Click here to view the movie trailer
Also check out these TED Talks on education
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
How to learn?  From Mistakes
What will future jobs look like?​
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​Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior
​by
​Austin Recovery
Location at AHS: Café Austin (2nd Floor) ​
6:30pm (PTSA General Meeting) 
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​SEX:
Adolescent Sexuality &
STD/STI Awareness
by
​Dr. Karen Rayne and Dr. Jill Grimes​
​Location at AHS: Library (2nd Floor) ​
6:30pm (PTSA General Meeting) 
Mental Illness
by
​NAMI Austin
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)