A Dallas ISD high school student will spend next school year living in Germany with a host family, attending a German high school, and participating in a four-week language and cultural immersion camp to gain a better understanding of German culture, language, and everyday life. Alina McSpadden, a rising junior at Booker T. Washington For the Visual & Performing Arts, is one of 250 American high school students from across the United States to be awarded the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. CBYX is a bi-lateral exchange program co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of…
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Conn’s HomePlus partnered with Hewlett Packard (HP) and Dallas Cowboys safety Kavon Frazier to gift 120 laptops to four Dallas ISD schools. Students had the opportunity to meet and engage with Conn’s HomePlus CEO Norm Miller and Frazier as they made surprise visits to all four campuses to personally present the laptops. Miller hopes the donation will help students strive to do better in school, and he encouraged the students to always put their education first. “Hopefully these laptops will assist in your education efforts and you can use them to make it happen,” said Miller. Frazier discussed the importance…
From athletic state titles and a record number of all-state dancers to STEM robotics championships and “Disney in Schools” musical performances, Dallas ISD trustees were briefed on the many ways schools are getting more students involved in extracurricular activities. Dallas ISD is focused on boosting student participation in extracurricular activities because of the positive impact it has on students. The district is well on track to meet its 2018–2019 goal of having 76 percent of students involved in at least one extracurricular activity. Dallas ISD offers more than 200 extracurricular and after-school programs for students in pre-K through grade 12…
At the age of 15, Joshua Suarez went from being an ordinary kid worrying about school to fighting for his life against stage four testicular cancer. Suarez, who will graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School later this month, still vividly remembers the day he received the diagnosis. “My heart sunk to the bottom of my chest when I heard the word ‘cancer.’ I didn’t know what to think, what to feel, or what to do,” Suarez said. “It was really heartbreaking to hear, and all I could ask was ‘why me?’” The cancer spread to his lungs, with approximately 22…
Gracias a valiosas asociaciones, más de 1,000 estudiantes de 14 escuelas de Dallas ISD tuvieron la oportunidad de presenciar “Hamilton” en el Music Hall at Fair Park. Serena Connelly, de la Harold Simmons Foundation, Dallas Summer Musicals, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, y los departamentos de Artes Visuales y Escénicas y de Servicios y Asociaciones de Dallas ISD lograron que este increíble día fuera posible. Además de presenciar la puesta en escena del musical, los estudiantes participaron en una sesión de preguntas con los protagonistas de la obra y vieron a compañeros de Booker T. Washington High School for…
In a technological world propelled by how we think, interact and learn, digital classrooms are no longer the wave of the future, because the future is here and now. If schools are not on board already, they’re behind the curve. These futuristic classrooms are grabbing the attention of nonprofits like NewSchools Venture Fund, which amplifies the learning environment in innovative ways. Super powers ‘IGNITE’ middle schoolers Classrooms like those at IGNITE Middle School are ahead of the curve as educators follow a campus model that guides students to discover their own super power. NewSchools is helping each student find that…
El 2 de mayo, se reunieron estudiantes, familias y personal escolar para reconocer al grupo nuevo del programa Jindal Young Scholars (JYSP). Christopher Adkins, Julio Tovar, Jacob González, Joshua Jernigan, Ariana Morales, Jenna O’Brien y Samuel Villalobos se matricularán en la Naveen Jindal School of Management de la Universidad de Texas en Dallas en el otoño de 2019. El programa Jindal Young Scholars proporcionará una beca completa de cuatro años a cada uno de los estudiantes quienes han demostrado un gran esfuerzo y dedicación más allá de los estándares académicos. Joshua Jernigan, estudiante de 12º grado en el Yvonne A.…
Recientemente, se llevó a cabo el Texas Academic Pentathlon, en la cual el equipo de 8º grado de Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School obtuvo el primer lugar en la Región V y además logró el noveno lugar en general entre 86 equipos. En la división de 7º grado, Dallas Environmental Science Academy consiguió el primer lugar en la Región V y alcanzó el octavo lugar en general entre 76 equipos. Texas Academic Pentathlon es una competencia académica de nivel de secundaria, equivalente al decatlón académico y al Lone Star Challenge. Participan equipos de nueve integrantes, quienes completan cinco…
Deloitte, the Northern Texas PGA (NTPGA) and United Way announced seven recipients of this year’s Deloitte/NTPGA Fairway to Success scholarships, a program that now has awarded more than $1.1 million to local students over the past decade. Again in 2019, in collaboration with the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas), a full, four-year scholarship to the university was awarded to one deserving student. On May 6 at the Lakewood Country Club, these seven Dallas ISD students were honored: Hector Diaz, Aracely Escobar, Naomi Jones, Yobesh Ogari Okero, Miriam Resendez-Ortiz and Gerrick Walker – each receiving a $20,000 college…
La elección de dos representantes en la Junta Escolar de Dallas ISD quedó resuelta. El pastor y activista Maxie Johnson, gano la elección para representar al Distrito 5 reemplazando a Lew Blackburn. Tras casi dos décadas como miembro de la Junta Escolar, Blackburn no buscó la reelección como representante del área que incluye Oak Lawn, oeste de Dallas, Wilmer Hutchins y parte del este de Oak Cliff. Los votantes también eligieron a Ben Mackey, exdirector en Dallas ISD, para el puesto del Distrito 7 que actualmente ocupa Audrey Pinkerton, quien tampoco buscó la reelección. El distrito 7 cubre el área…