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AIS provides social and emotional support to all students through classroom, small-group, and individual levels in collaboration with the school counseling team. The approach is preventative and proactive and responsive to the mental, emotional, and social health of students and families. The counseling team includes Adrienne Carter and Ashley Kenebrew, School Counselors. Social-emotional support covers social and emotional wellness, emotional vocabulary and intelligence, coping and self-regulation, relationship building and maintenance, conflict resolution, interpersonal and social skills, and self-management and self-advocacy.
AIS provides accommodations and targeted academic interventions within the seamless trilingual program. Accommodations are documented in a Student Accommodation Plan based on each child's diagnosis or evaluation and provided by classroom teachers. Academic interventions are delivered through push-in and/or pull-out support by learning specialists in French, English, and Spanish, including areas such as executive function, reading, writing, math, testing, and assistive technology. Structured literacy/dyslexia intervention is available where possible, and English-language supports are provided for non-native speakers. AIS's Special Education Needs policy notes that the school does not discriminate and admits students only if it can fully support them.
AIS provides language-acquisition support for French, English, and Spanish for non-native speakers in addition to differentiated classroom instruction. Student language ability is evaluated using the CEFR and supports are provided on a case-by-case basis in collaboration with staff and families.
AIS delivers mental wellbeing support through its social-emotional program and school counseling services. The counseling team provides preventative and proactive support addressing students' mental, emotional, and social health, with counselors Adrienne Carter and Ashley Kenebrew available to students and families.
AIS maintains health and safeguarding-related processes, including the AIS Wellness and Immunization Form and health forms such as the Medication Information and Administration Permission Form and the FARE Form for food allergies, plus a Central Texas Asthma Action Plan. Vaccination requirements are outlined as part of health policy, and admissions materials reference a Special Education Needs Policy and related safeguarding-oriented provisions.
Austin International School is a private, trilingual day school in Austin, Texas, serving students from age 3 to 14. The curriculum blends the French National Curriculum with American standards, guided by the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme framework and ACTFL language benchmarks. Students learn in French, Spanish and English, with about 60% of instruction delivered in French. AIS's four-curriculum approach combines the French National Curriculum, Common Core Standards, IB standards and language-acquisition goals to support a smooth transition into either American or French education systems. AIS operates on the Adelphi Lane campus, with expansion planned to Cassady Drive that will add specialty classrooms and a clinic. The Design and Innovation Studio (DIS) anchors hands-on, project-based learning and serves as the MYP design classroom. AIS maintains small class sizes and a low student-to-teacher ratio, and nurtures a diverse community drawn from 60+ nationalities and 20+ languages, underpinned by a French ministry affiliation.
