Google for EDU

Canyon ISD is honored to be accepted as a Google Reference District.  This honor is by invitation only and there are only 219 Google Reference Schools or Districts worldwide with 115 in the United States and 12 in the state of Texas.  Canyon ISD will be the only Google Reference District within a 200-mile radius and the only Google Reference District in the Texas Panhandle. 

Students are inundated with opportunities to grow and develop the 21st Century Learning skills of communication, collaboration, creation, and critical thinking.  These skill sets are necessary and sought after in the business world. We are constantly exploring ways to be innovative in our approach to enforcing these skills and Google has enabled us to be forward thinking with this new opportunity.

Google was created through an educational institution and has continued to invest in this system. As a reference district, our staff and students gain early access to Google products and educational methodologies that will impact student success.  We also become a point of contact for other districts interested in adopting any of the educational ideas, methodologies, and strategies that we employ here at Canyon ISD to make our program a success.

Privacy and security is something Canyon ISD and Google take very seriously.  CISD works hard to make sure students are safe when they are on our campus and when they go home.  We do this by putting certain limits on students Google accounts as well as by monitoring internet activity at home and at school including the school provided gmail accounts.