Week three of Texas UIL football playoff action sees an undefeated Skyline High School Raider team advance from the 6A Division I-Region II Area matchup against Belton in a 49-7 victory at the Waco ISD Stadium Saturday afternoon. Skyline (12-0) will face-off against Klein Collins (11-1) at 4 p.m., Friday, Nov 28, at Waco’s McLane Stadium for the UIL football semi-finals. South Oak Cliff carried the momentum gained from the gridiron battle against Lancaster into a 55-35 win over Marshall this weekend. SOC (9-3) will play Frisco Heritage (10-2) at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov 29, at the Cotton Bowl in…
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As we pause to reflect this Thanksgiving holiday, I want to express my appreciation to you, our community, for the countless ways you support our District. As superintendent of a school district that serves more than 160,000 students, I am thankful for the outpouring of support Dallas ISD receives from our community. Parents who entrust our schools with their children, businesses and organizations that invest in and contribute to the well-being of students, civic leaders who are engaged in the challenging issues facing education, volunteers who devote hours of service as tutors and mentors, and citizens whose investment in schools…
Frank Johnson Jr. thought his lunch period on Friday, Nov. 21, at Dallas ISD’s Harry Stone Montessori would be uneventful. But by the time the student got his tray of food and sat down, he knew something was up because of all the cameras pointed at him. That’s about the same time his father Frank Johnson Sr., who just retired as a U.S. Army Master Sergeant, walked into the cafeteria. After hugs – and a few classmates who teared up at the sight – his dad’s surprise return in time for Thanksgiving started to sink in.
The C.A. Tatum Jr. Elementary School Titans are celebrating Thanksgiving by fighting hunger. A canned-food drive sponsored by the school’s Character Education Club yielded 779 pounds of food recently donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Tatum Counselor and club sponsor Katrina Woods worked alongside students in their mission to help others. Thanking the students for their donation, a spokeswoman for North Texas Food Bank estimated the donation would help provide access to 649 meals for chronically hungry children, families and seniors in North Texas. The agency invites schools, individuals and community groups to get involved in the battle against…
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and this week is a great time to reinforce the GO, SLOW, WHOA message. Have you embraced this message at home? Remember, CATCH Eat Right and Be Active! Each week the Dallas ISD Coordinated School Health initiative reminds you to check in for recipes, hints to being active and how your family can make small changes at home. This week’s tip is an easy one, get out and play! Keep moving for 60 minutes a day. Go for a run, play with friends or ride your bike! It’s that easy. Looking for more ways to help…
Dallas ISD is committed to involving those for whom the Teacher Excellence Initiative was designed – the teacher. Also known as TEI, the plan is the district’s new system to identify, support and strategically compensate effective teachers. During its development, the plan received a high level of interest and teachers were given the opportunity to have an active voice in the process. Teachers such as Jacqueline Martinez asked her fellow educators to give the system a chance. Now that the plan is in full motion, teachers continue to play an active role. Nearly 500 teachers (two or three per campus)…
For today’s Throwback Thursday feature, we are taking you back down memory lane with one of our DallasISD alumni, Courtney Thomas. She is a proud graduate of the Bryan Adams High School, Class of 1984. She also attended George W. Truett Elementary School and W.H. Gaston Middle School. Her Dallas ISD pride is true because now, just 30 years later, she currently serves as a Dallas ISD principal at Thelma Richardson Elementary. Beyond the academic side of things, Principal Thomas was truly a social butterfly. As a student, she loved the social aspect of school because she met some of…
Trabajando en conjunto, las escuelas y el personal administrativo central crearon la propuesta para el calendario instruccional del año 2015-2016. Antes de llevar la propuesta del calendario ante la Junta Escolar para su consideración en diciembre, el distrito quiere dar tiempo al personal, a los padres y a la comunidad para que ofrezcan sus opiniones generales acerca del calendario propuesto. Vea el calendario instruccional propuesto para el año 2015-2016 aquí. Escriba sus opiniones (máximo 250 palabras). Información General: En el pasado, el distrito ha solicitado la opinión de la comunidad para determinar las distintas opciones de calendario. La capacidad del…