The Flavors of Mexico

Gastronomic Gateways to Cuisine South of the Border

"...Maria Dolores Torres Yzabal to tour in the U.S., teaching and promoting Mexican cuisine. The result is that cooking..."

May 29, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

High Tech, Low Priority?

Not Everyone Is Sold on Computers in Schools

"...are. Contrary to popular belief, though, technology doesn't make teaching easier, or diminish the role of the teacher in..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

The Tools of the Trade

Southwest Texas State's Jazz Program

"...in 1989 and was soon enticed into taking at teaching position at SWT by Dr. Keith Winking, Director of..."

June 13, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Evil of Two Lessers, Part II

"...our fault we're old. By our example, we are teaching them to turn away from misfortune. They will have..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Bard Choices

Two Directors on Making Shakespeare Contemporary

"...directing professor talked to an English professor who was teaching a class on Shakespeare and said to him, "Jemma..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Austin Chamber Music Center Chamber of Diversity

"...of director Felicity Coltman, the Center employs a dual teaching-performance approach to integrate technical proficiency, theoretical backgrounds, and stylistic..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

Household Saints

"...heights. Household Saints restores one's faith in miracles while teaching us how to invent them ourselves. That, and also..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Elders: Meet Sara Laas, the 94-Year-Old Who Couldn’t Stay Away From Austin

This independent woman won’t be “put in a box”

"...because women were expected to go into nursing or teaching. After graduating, she jumped around different places and fields,..."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Naina Srivastava

Should Texas Science Textbooks Cover Climate Change?

Kids are affected by it but can't learn about it

"...change a reality for some of his students, so teaching them about it seemed necessary...."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Emily Engelbart

Former AISD Educators Sweep District Trustee Races

Give a teacher a hand

"...northwest, Kathryn Whitley Chu, with the most recent AISD teaching experience of any candidate, easily won against Clint Small,..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

After a Difficult Year at AISD, 2,100 Staffers Are Leaving

Resignations are higher than ever

"...Ridgetop Elementary for the last time. After 23 years teaching in Florida and Texas, Thomas resigned from his career..."

June 10, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

UT Faculty Say Conservatization of the School Is a Long Time Coming

Another brick in the wall

"...plan to effectively end the tenure system and the teaching of critical race theory at UT-Austin, faculty and administrators..."

March 11, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

The Austin Historical Weapons Guild Brings Historical Swordplay to Life

Cut, thrust, parry, fun

"...daggers: AHWG has it all, focusing on different historical teaching methods for each. For instance, when it comes to..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Arts Feature by Robert Penson

Qmmunity: SBOE Debates the Good, the Bad, and the Bass-ackwards

Plus, join AIDS Walk Austin Saturday to step to zero new HIV infections by 2030

"...overhaul Texas' sex ed curriculum. While new standards for teaching seventh- and eighth-graders about birth control methods were spared..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Public Notice: Heads Up, Pandemic Parents:

Do You Want a Public School to Come Back To?

"...So this mythical homeroom teacher who's already teaching her own full-time course load, both in-person and remotely,..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Summer Break Theatre's COVID-Era Comedy

Area educators deliver a timely lesson in their original work Going the Distance

"...walk into the classrooms every day and do the teaching, coronavirus or no coronavirus...."

July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn’t Trying to Trick You

The 2019 Texas Poet Laureate talks shop as she receives two Texas honors

"...kids. And then having kids and writing poetry and teaching was all I was doing. And then I couldn't..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

This Is America: Part Two

More from the Notes From the Field cast on living black

"...the fact that we get to do this. It’s teaching me so much about me. I love that...."

Feb. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Eat Well, Learn French

Dine in Austin’s Petite Provence, speak French, and go back to basics

"...fed dinner as part of their tuition. As a teaching technique, food has the natural tendency to incite conversation...."

Jan. 5, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

AISD's "Concerned Parents" Rail Against LGBTQ Inclusivity

Religious extremists against comprehensive sex ed and Welcoming Schools program

"...risks," the group is also convinced that AISD is teaching a "radical sex education agenda" pushed onto schools by..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

AISD Expands Pre-K

Program will prep 3-year-olds for kindergarten

"...Teaching kids can be hard. But much harder, and arguably..."

May 13, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Donya Stockton Isn’t Going Anywhere Near Hell in That Handbasket

The Austin clubland mover-and-shaker weaves much to the imagination

"...all kinds of stuff – and going back and teaching it to the people. So they were actually prosecuting..."

April 4, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Laughing Matter

Rice University's Kim McGaw brings levity to dry topics

"...Your Feet, was intended to create Monty Python-esque anarchy, "teaching them how to do a quick Winston Churchill quip."..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Saying "Yes" and "No" with DanceAbility

Body Shift brings Alito Alessi's mixed-ability movement workshops to Austin

"...Gym at the University of Texas, Alito Alessi is teaching a "yes/no" exercise to a group of 26 dancers,..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Shortchanged

A lot of belt tightening and creative thinking make getting by with low dollars possible for AISD

"...do? And that's need, not want. Chief Officer of Teaching and Learning Edmund Oropez admits that, if he had..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Barbara's Fire

Attorney, teacher, and veteran fighter for freedom, Barbara Hines retires from a career mentoring students

"...Last month, Hines was awarded the Massey Award for Teaching Excellence, "presented to a faculty member who embodies the..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Tony Cantú

The Right Man for the Job

APD welcomes its first openly trans officer

"...the force, he had become a continuing education instructor, teaching such courses as "Survival Spanish" to his fellow officers...."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Amy Kamp

ACC Adjunct Faculty Sees Progress

Plan would create hybrid lecturer / support staff posts

"...hours for that same course. Moreover, while an adjunct teaching three courses is not classified as half time, a..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...students call her – wasn't looking for a regular teaching job. In 2006, she moved to Austin and was..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mother-Daughter Dance

Anuradha Naimpally and Purna Bajekal are of two generations, but they share one timeless tradition

"...in introspection. "Gradually over the years, as I've been teaching and teaching and teaching, there's just something beautiful about..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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