Ideas Shining Brightly!

On this beautiful Friday afternoon in Austin, it's hard to focus on work!  Across the street from my office there are high school students, including my son,  taking notes, taking tests, and turning thoughts into bright ideas.  You did that!  What a great gift for the holidays, and for everyday.  So many tools and resources are right at their finger tips.  From 3D printers to musical instruments, your donations are funding bright ideas as I type.  Before you head to sit in the pickup line today, or while you are getting an early start on wrapping (wishful thinking I know), give the gift of education by just clicking right here.  $10, $100, heck just keep adding zeros...we'll take it!  Imagine all the bright ideas you will be building for years to come!

Lake Travis Wins!

When you donate to LTEF all of our kids at LTISD win!  It's game day...watch out Westlake here come the Cavs!  The Reserve at Lake Travis helped to build LOTS of dreams by making our annual giving campaign possible.  Join them right now and together we can build many, many more! 

 Click here to donate today and put a W in the column for all of our kids!

The Giving is Electric!

If you are reading this then you have power.  Power to build a bright idea in our LTISD students!  Pedernales Electric just did...with an electric $1,000 donation.  What kind of ideas did they just build?  Maybe money calculators to help our special education students learn how to count their pocket change.  Maybe an EV3 Robotics kit so an elementary student can learn how to write code.  Pretty amazing stuff.  Thank you Pedernales Electric - have you built your bright idea yet?  Click here to do it right now!

Bright Ideas Are Building!

Thanks to everyone who has already contributed to build some bright ideas this week!  Shout out to Josh Barouh with Liberty Mutual for making a $500 donation!  What bright ideas could that build?  His contribution could purchase a chromebook and a band instrument for a student.  Want to join Josh and build an idea?  Click here to donate right now!

Build a Bright Idea Right Now!

School is well underway this year and students in Lake Travis ISD are getting to use amazing new tools that donations to LTEF made possible.  Like a 3D printer, new musical instruments, 181 brand new Chromebooks and 73 iPads.  $225,000 made a big impact on our 9 campuses this year.  Imagine all the bright ideas that these new tools are building right this minute!  Let's help them build some more.

 Today begins our annual Giving Campaign and from today through November 11th we want you to join us as we work to raise even more for our kids.  You can donate lots of ways - online, on your phone, even mailing it in.  Whatever works best for you.  You are changing lives for years to come, so we want to make easy!  Not sure you are really making a difference?  You don't have to take my word for it, check out the video and let Kembree tell you!

If you are having trouble seeing the video, click here to watch it on YouTube!  

LTISD Teachers Give BIG!!

No matter what campus you dropped your child off to this morning, no doubt you were challenged by traffic, new drivers, and the stress of the first day of a new school year.  No matter how drop off went, I can be sure that one of the first things you will ask when they get home shortly is, "do you like your teacher(s)"?  I hope the great majority of you will get an enthusiastic "YES!".  Teachers and staff at LTISD have been working incredibly hard to get ready for our kids this year.  Each one is ready to make a big difference in the life of not only your child, but dozens of others this year.  In fact, they already have!

The LTEF / LTISD Employee Giving Campaign just wrapped up and over 55% of LTISD employees became friends of the Foundation pledging over $27,600 in one time gifts and monthly pledges for 2015-2016!

These amazing teachers and staff are giving to all of our kids in every way possible!  Be sure to thank them next time you see one wearing our blue lanyard, or sporting a butterfly sticker on their door. They are building bright ideas - join them by clicking here!

Back to School Golfing??

The big box stores are all stocked and ready for kids and parents to descend upon them with lists of "must-haves" for the new school year.  I don't know about you, but as a young child this was my favorite time of year - a new pair of shoes, a new pencil box and a cool new backpack that I was just sure would propel me to super awesome social status.  As a parent it might be the polar opposite - a giant dent in the monthly budget and a fight in the store over whether or not he really needs the name brand glue stick and why does he need eight of them anyway, is enough to make us dread this trip.  I have a solution.  Just go shopping online, have them all delivered to your door and instead take the time and energy spent discerning the difference between highlighter colors and register Fore the Kids golf tournament!  Ok, admittedly that might be a stretch, but I'm just saying that you can support your child, and her classmates, by playing golf.   And that's arguably more relaxing than a trip to Target to sit and wait for her to pick out the coolest spiral notebook with the best cats on the front.  Better yet, do both.  Totally in for Parent of the Year.  It will make up for that time you forgot to pick him up from school.  Oh wait, that was me.  But you know what I mean.  So tell her to get her shoes on and while you wait for her to finish texting her friends to find out what backpack she has to have, sign up for a great day of golf that supports her school.  Here's the link - do it now and we'll see you on November 11th.  By then most of the bruises on the back of your heels where he ran into you with the cart should have healed.  Happy shopping!