Author: The Hub

Dallas ISD’s Racial Equity Office (REO) has scheduled a series of community conversations related to its Equity in Bond Planning process. The meetings will collect input and feedback on plans to invest a portion of the district’s proposed Bond 2020 package of school/facility improvements to create four school-community hubs. The hubs are proposed for neighborhoods served by H. Grady Spruce, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and L.G. Pinkston high schools. Using a measurement tool called the Community Resource Index, or CRI, the Racial Equity Office meetings will share data about these neighborhoods in five categories—community, family, education, economics and health. The…

Students from Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School at Mountain View published a book about COVID-19, race and their life challenges. “Faceless: Untold Side Effects of Culture, Race & COVID-19” is a collection of almost 80 narratives, poems and short stories from students from two Mexican-American and African-American history classes at Trini Garza. “What we want everyone to take from this book is not just how we’ve spent our quarantine, but how we are determined to speak about our happenings in a way that makes reality just a bit better throughout it,” the book states. “This book is more…

Dallas ISD is going out into the community and apartment complexes this summer to enroll families to the district and provide technology support and a mobile WiFi signal. Representatives from the Dallas ISD Centralized Enrollment Department  are at two apartment complexes this week and, in addition to enrolling students, are providing any needed technology support, such as replacing or fixing district-issued devices while also broadcasting a WiFi signal for families to use.

Dallas ISD’s Transportation Department is calling on all CDL drivers who are looking to make a difference in their community. The district is recruiting bus drivers for the 2020 – 2021 school year. The starting pay is $20.17 per hour. Drivers are guaranteed 6 working hours a day for 185 days per school year. Drivers must be at least 21 years of age. Among other requirements, applicants must have a Texas Commercial Driver’s License (Class A or B) with Passenger and School endorsements (“P” and “S”). Jobseekers can find the job posting on this website. The Dallas ISD Transportation Department…

Estudiantes de más de 15 escuelas de Dallas ISD completaron el programa No Place for Hate de la Liga Antidifamación, una iniciativa cuyo propósito es reconocer, responder y prevenir el hostigamiento entre compañeros, o bullying, y los prejuicios. El programa ayuda a mejorar el ambiente escolar al proporcionar a las escuelas una guía para organizarse contra el prejuicio, el hostigamiento y el odio, lo cual produce soluciones duraderas que fomentan y mantienen un ambiente de apoyo. Para recibir la designación No Place for Hate, las escuelas deben asumir el compromiso del programa en el que se fomenta el respaldo a…

Students at more than 15 Dallas ISD schools completed Anti Defamation Leagues’ No Place for Hate Program, an initiative geared toward preventing, recognizing and responding to bullying and bias. The program is a school climate improvement framework that provides schools with an organizing framework for combating bias, bullying and hatred, which leads to long-term solutions to foster and maintain a supportive environment. To receive their designation, schools must first take the NPFH pledge which includes lines about supporting a non-bullying environment and being an ally to peers. The schools then create a NPFH committee made up of students, teachers and…

La Junta Escolar de Dallas ISD aprobó por unanimidad una resolución que constituye un compromiso del distrito a los estudiantes afroamericanos y a su vida. Conforme a la resolución, la Junta Escolar colaborará con la comunidad para identificar temas de gran necesidad y se reunirá con el superintendente Michael Hinojosa en 30 días para empezar a tomar acción para lograr avances medibles para los estudiantes afroamericanos de Dallas ISD a lo largo del próximo año. El Dr. Hinojosa elogió a la Junta Escolar por tomar acción inmediata y decisiva en este tema y se comprometió a aumentar los esfuerzos del…

Seyry Moreno, graduada de Carter High School, creció en una familia muy unida, a decir poco. Emigraron de México y vivieron con algunos parientes que también habían venido a Estados Unidos. “Me crie en una casa de nueve a diez personas, por lo que se me hizo difícil concentrarme en mis estudios porque siempre estaban pasando tantas cosas”, dijo Moreno. “Para escapar del bullicio, solía encerrarme en el clóset para leer en silencio”. No fue hasta el verano pasado que Seyry y su familia finalmente pudieron tener casa propia. “Me tomó tiempo creerlo”, dijo Seyry. “Fue una experiencia completamente nueva…

Santander Consumer USA Foundation sigue apostando por los estudiantes de Dallas ISD y por ello, aportará $150,000 a la Fundación Educativa de Dallas, división sin fines de lucro del distrito, para apoyar el aprendizaje a distancia y las clases virtuales. Mita Havlick, directora ejecutiva de la Fundación Educativa de Dallas, dijo que estos fondos se asignarán al desarrollo de una plataforma tecnológica que necesitan los estudiantes para conectarse y participar exitosamente con el aprendizaje en casa. “En estos momentos de incertidumbre, es necesario que nuestros estudiantes tengan la opción de acceder a una enseñanza virtual de calidad. La generosa donación…

Santander Consumer USA Foundation continues its commitment to Dallas ISD students by providing a $150,000 grant to the Dallas Education Foundation–Dallas ISD’s nonprofit philanthropic arm–to support distance learning and virtual classrooms. Dallas Education Foundation Executive Director Mita Havlick said the grants funds will be used to fund the development of the technology platform students need to successfully engage and participate in at-home learning. “In these uncertain times, it’s required for our students to have the ability and option to access quality virtual instruction. The generous grant from Santander Consumer will directly fund the development of a robust virtual classroom environment…