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Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services Department will offer students free meals during the Thanksgiving break, from Nov. 25–Nov. 27, at select locations. The effort is to ensure students have access to nutritious meals even during breaks from school. Participating schools throughout the district will be serving morning snack from 9–9:30 a.m. and lunch from 12:30 p.m.–1 p.m. For a list of participating schools, go here. Thanksgiving Break Meals are free to all children and youth through age 18. Educational and enrichment activities will be available for all participants.

Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Dallas ISD Trustee Edwin Flores to the Texas School Safety Center Board. Flores will join seven other appointees on the board that reports to the governor, legislature, State Board of Education and Texas Education Agency regarding school safety and security. The board also advises the center on its function, budget and strategic planning initiatives. In addition to serving as a Dallas ISD trustee, Flores is the managing partner at Chalker Flores, LLP and is a member of the State Bar of Texas and United States Patent and Trademark Office.

More than 100 parents attended the Nov. 16 Dallas ISD Fam Jam event at Spruce High School, NBC 5 reports. NBC 5 reports that the event made learning fun for parents and students who enjoyed giveaways and activities. “We really enjoy this opportunity to partner with Dallas ISD, as parents and as a family, and work together,” said Jonathan Morrison, a parent interviewed by NBC 5. “The city is better, the community is better when we are working together for our children.” The Dallas ISD Family & Community Engagement Office hosts the Saturday Fam Jams. For more information or to…

Dallas ISD Stories is a new Hub series where district students, teachers and staff share their own stories. My ultimate goal is to go to medical school and become a cardiac surgeon or cardiologist, so I love getting a head start at the School of Health Professions. I want to work with the heart because it’s complicated and you have to be delicate and exact, and I find that so satisfying. I like a challenge and don’t like anything too easy.

The Dallas ISD Language, Literacy, and Social Studies departments held their annual Fall Conference at Bryan Adams High School on Nov. 9. Nearly 300 teachers and staff came together under the theme of “Empowering Students through Disciplinary Literacy” and were treated to keynote speeches from Chief Academic Officer Ivonne Durant and global literacy expert Pam Allyn. Students from Maria Moreno Elementary School’s Ballet Folklorico provided entertainment with a variety of songs and dances. Throughout the day, teachers and staff facilitated sessions to participants in a wide variety of trainings, such as Differenti—WHAAAAT?, in which teachers were given tips on how…

Students from six schools got to see the new movie “Harriet,” which tells the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, at AMC NorthPark thanks to Ford Motor Company and Jackie Bazan. Meanwhile, Digital Promise/Verizon Innovative Learning Schools provided all students at five other Dallas ISD schools with the opportunity to see the film. After the viewing at AMC NorthPark, Ervin James III, professor of humanities and social science at Paul Quinn College, and Shalon Bond, director of the Dallas ISD Social Studies Department, led a panel discussion with students about the movie. The schools that attended the screening sponsored by…

Representantes de la Oficina de Equidad Racial y el Departamento de Lenguaje, Alfabetización y Estudios Sociales viajaron al capitolio en Austin junto con una delegación de docentes y estudiantes para mostrar su apoyo a la implementación a nivel estatal del curso de estudios afroamericanos de Dallas ISD. Después de que los estudiantes de Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School, New Tech High School at B.F. Darrell y Pinkston High School expresaron el impacto que ha tenido el curso en su vida, la Junta de Educación del estado dio una ovación. Este año escolar, Dallas ISD introdujo el curso de…

Samuell High School ECHS sophomore Israel Piña traces his love for teaching to an assignment where he created a lesson plan and taught a whole class. His dream is to work as an educator, put himself through law school and eventually become an immigration lawyer. On Nov. 13, Piña took a big step toward reaching that goal by signing a letter of intent to become a teacher and return to work in Dallas ISD after he earns a bachelor’s degree. Through the Samuell High School Early College High School (ECHS) program, Piña can earn 60 hours of college credit–or an…

As parents and students walked into Adamson High School on Nov. 12, they were greeted with food and drink options such as hatch green chili and cheese tamales, breaded chicken sliders and hazelnut iced coffee. These parents and students were participating in the Menu Advisory Committee meeting, which allows attendees to taste and offer their feedback on potential future school menu items. The Dallas ISD Food and Child Nutrition Services Department (FCNS) hosts about three of the Menu Advisory Committee taste test meetings throughout the year. “Our goal is to make students happy and give them nutrition that will make…

Two Dallas ISD high schools will each receive $250,000 worth of support from IBM and AT&T to use AI or 5G connectivity to address real-world educational problems. The P-TECH students at Seagoville and Adamson high schools won the second round of the IBM EdTech Cities Challenge, which tasks students with proposing game-changing ideas. According to Dallas Innovates, the general concept for both teams is an application that learns how students are learning, and then gives insights to both teachers and students on how to best focus their efforts in mastering new material. Each Dallas ISD P-TECH school has a corporate…