Re-Elect Arati Singh for AISD
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About

About

 

How to Pronounce:

"Art-Thee Sing"

 

Meet Arati

Arati Singh is a proven community leader who has served from the classroom and beyond throughout her 25-year career.  An equity champion, she started her career as a bilingual fourth grade teacher in the Rio Grande Valley, and for 20 years has designed and evaluated college access and STEM program for clients such as Texas A&M University and Foundation Communities. As a relentless advocate, Arati helped stop vouchers by testifying several times at the Texas legislature on behalf of Texas PTA’s half a million members while serving as the PTA President of a Title I school. Arati, an outside the box thinker, has four technology-related patents to her name. As a mom to an AISD graduate and a current AISD student (including one who has started a social movement fighting online sexual harassment), Arati understands that kids should love learning and feel safe in schools.

Arati has a BA in Psychology and minor in Spanish from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MS in Curriculum and Instruction with an instructional technology focus from The University of Texas at Austin. Arati and her family live in Oak Hill in southwest Austin.

 
“Our students are often treated as test scores, without sufficient regard to their social, emotional, and cultural needs — more innovative learning programs and and civic engagement will help students succeed not only on tests, but in life.”
— Arati Singh
 
 

Awards & Accomplishments

  • Unanimously elected as the AISD board secretary by fellow trustees

  • Received Changemaker Award from the Indian American Coalition of Texas

  • Texas PTA Honorary Life Award
    Awarded by Texas PTA Executive Director for legislative advocacy on behalf of Texas PTA's half a million members

  • Austin ISD PTA of the Year
    Top 3 Finalist under Arati’s presidency, for recruiting and integrating Spanish-speaking families into PTA leadership

  • National PTA School of Excellence
    Awarded under Arati’s presidency; only school in AISD and one of 11 in Texas

  • Graduate School Presidential Fellowship
    University of Texas at Austin, College of Education

  • Finalist, Teacher of the Year
    Donna ISD 

  • Named Inventor
    8 patents related to using mobile devices in emergency situations

  • Educa Austin Featured Guest
    Austin ISD's Spanish Language Talk Show

  • Published Author
    - Austin Monthly
    - Austin-American Statesman

  • Best Mom Ever
    Received coffee mug from children, Mother’s Day

 
“The best moment for me was when, despite naysayers, a group of Spanish-speaking parents came to an important principal profile meeting and presented to 60 parents in Spanish the qualities they wanted to see in our new principal!”
— Arati Singh
 
 

Community Involvement

  • Other

    • Supporter of the Austin ISD PALS program

    • Supporter of Planned Parenthood, OutYouth, Keep Austin Beautiful, Workers Defense Project

    • Supporter of Literacy First, AVANCE, Asian Family Support Services of Austin, Texas Gun Sense, and many other local organizations that serve our community

    • Bollywood radio show host, NPR affiliate, Harlingen, TX

    • Organized 4 successful food/supply drives during the height of winter storm URI for low-income neighborhoods in Oak Hill and greater Austin.