Opening windows for Panhandle students for 20 years.
Window on a Wider World connects Texas Panhandle schools to the arts, science, and culture that make learning come alive.
Our Story
It started with a building,
In 2006, as the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts rose in downtown Amarillo, a group of community leaders saw a bigger opportunity. The venue would be world class. The question was how to open it, and everything like it, to students across the whole Panhandle. They raised the funds to build something lasting: a program that would carry the arts, science, and culture to students wherever they learn, on field trips and inside their own classrooms.
Modeled on proven arts-integration programs, WOWW took shape. Window on a Wider World is the bridge that makes those experiences reachable and affordable for every student, in every district across the Panhandle. Twenty years later, that bridge connects 39 districts to more than 60 partner organizations and 145 curriculum-aligned experiences.
Today
20 Years Strong
60+ partners, 145 experiences, and 39 districts served.
2006
The Beginning
Founded, tied to the campaign that built the Globe-News Center.
Window on a Wider World is committed to enhancing the knowledge of classroom core curriculum by providing for every Panhandle student.
Mission & Values
Every student deserves
That belief drives everything we do.
Equity
Every child deserves the same access, regardless of zip code or income.
Partnership
We celebrate and rely on the 60+ organizations that make this possible.
Curriculum first
Every experience reinforces what students are already learning, tied to TEKS.
Access
We remove the cost and logistics barriers that keep kids from opportunity.
Learning Partners
Hands-On Experiences
School Districts
Years Strong
Our Team
Guided by
Christina Cox
Executive Director
Stephanie Parker
WOWW Representative
Victoria Todd
WOWW Representative
Christina Hamilton
Bookkeeper
Adrienne Hurtt
WOWW Representative
Our Board of Directors
Katy Reid
President
– Ascension Academy
Joshua Cunningham
Treasurer
– Pantex
Yadira Garcia
Secretary
– Amarillo ISD
Christy King
Board Member
– Aflac
Arely Diaz
Board Member
– River Road ISD
Zaida Cordova
Board Member
– WT Enterprise Center
Transparency
Where your trust,
and your gift, goes.
A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Window on a Wider World is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so your gift is tax-deductible. We believe in showing exactly how support is used.
$8
opens a full year of WOWW experiences for one child.
Your support
covers the buses, program fees, and reduced rates schools cannot.
No barriers
so cost is never the reason a student misses out.
Be part of
Whether you give, partner, or bring WOWW to your school, you help keep the window open.