Recent News
VISD Education Foundation Awards $16K in Teacher’s Toolbox Gift Cards
Teachers are the heart of the Foundation’s business, as we exist to support them and our students! To show such care, during day two of the VISD...
VISD Education Foundation Partners with Angel Lucy’s Funeral Home to Distribute Over 600 Pairs of Shoes
The VISD Education Foundation is proud to highlight Angel Lucy’s Funeral Home and their profound generosity (estimated at $36,000), which culminated...
Live from Victoria, it’s Saturday Night!
By Robin Harkey Growing up in the country circa 1975-1993 with an antenna and a clear night sky, my much older brothers (he!he!) – the real deal...
Let’s give them something to talk about
By Robin Harkey It wasn’t just another day at the Children’s Discovery Museum. It was more. Not a day but two weeks filled with new campers — and...
VISD alumnus expands VISD Education Foundation Scholarships
By Robin Harkey The VISD Education Foundation (VEF) is pleased to announce a new $10,000 scholarship opportunity offered on behalf of DNV, an...
Career engineering by design
By Robin Harkey Hands-on—inquiry-based—and through trial and error—an engineer uses the design process to “ask, imagine, plan, create, test, and...
More than just a Veggie Tale
By Robin Harkey It was a sunny, idyllic afternoon when I visited kindergarten teacher Sandra Caltzonzin at Shields Elementary to witness her Grants...
Weave in, Weave out in Amazement of STEM
By Robin Harkey The year was 1982 as I sat in my living room on my rust-brown and off-white flowered velour couch hunched over the latest Victoria...
A Hocus Focus on Education in VISD
By Robin Harkey The year was 1982 as I sat in my living room on my rust-brown and off-white flowered velour couch hunched over the latest Victoria...