Fort Bend Independent School District offers students the tools necessary for fulfilling futures beyond what they could ever imagine. Equipped with highly skilled staff, an energetic board, and supportive business and community partners, FBISD equips its students for academic pursuits as well as career pathways.
Kroger Backpack Boosters will offer free school supplies at several of the district campuses from July 15 through August 2 this year. The program runs until Aug. 2.
Whole Child Health Initiative
A whole child approach to education encompasses all of a student’s development needs – social, emotional and physical as well as academic. This new framework is founded upon the belief that for students to reach their maximum potential they must remain healthy, safe, engaged and challenged.
Skyward FBISD offers comprehensive health programs at its schools, including health education, screening for disease and injury screenings, nutrition programs for school-age parents and dropout recovery. In addition, programs exist that promote mental and behavioral wellbeing – including suicide prevention efforts.
Kopacko and her guidance department have been attending whole child meetings at other schools and districts to see how other districts are managing whole child meetings and understand what the data reveals about how students are progressing with this work and to make programming changes to help ensure student success in both the classroom and beyond. Students will focus on learning while maintaining overall wellbeing allowing them to reach their full potential both inside and outside of it.
Career and Technical Education
As a curriculum developer, Brad understands first-hand the significance of education as well as its challenges. His passion lies in helping educators recognize and meet the needs of their students – which led him to join iCEV to empower teachers so they may empower their pupils.
FBISD’s robust Career and Technical Education (CTE) program caters to learners from middle school through high school, meeting both their academic and career aspirations needs. Contrary to vocational schools of yesteryear, modern CTE programs closely mirror industry trends to offer career pathways ranging from agriculture, automotive and culinary arts through health science, law enforcement, engineering, entrepreneurship theater arts production and information technology. Each career pathway comprises of rigorous courses that culminate in industry-recognized certificates or licenses, funded by federal grants under Perkins V: Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. For further details regarding Perkins funding at an individual or national level please consult the Digest of Education Statistics.
Student Recruitment
Fort Bend ISD is situated in one of the fastest-growing counties in America and attracts families from all around the globe. Their Talent Acquisition team is responsible for forecasting, planning, recruiting, sourcing and benchmarking talent acquisition services.
FBISD provides students with innovative programming options at the high school level. Students have the freedom to pursue multiple pathways of interest while earning industry certifications while earning their diploma.
At James Reese Career and Technical Center, students have access to advanced CTE programming with unique opportunities for earning college credit in certain program areas.
FBISD Academy applications are open to 5th & 8th grade students living within our boundaries who attend public, private, or home schools. All applications must be filled out completely; ensure all contact details for both student and parent remain current in Skyward system.
Extended Day Program
FBISD offers an environment in which students can get help with homework and participate in enrichment activities after school, all in a safe and fun manner. We encourage families to explore this resource for themselves!
School-based afterschool programs are tailored specifically for children whose parents work beyond regular school hours, according to research. Research demonstrates that increasing labor force participation by mothers as well as their desire for work-life balance may be driving demand for these programs.
In both 1987-88 and 1990-91, public and private elementary schools reporting availability of extended day programs was higher in central city and urban fringe locations than rural ones, and higher percentages of high minority schools than low minority ones reported these programs as available. Given these patterns, future analyses should investigate if extended day program provision differs by school population characteristics.
