Hoy, la Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation dio a conocer que 25 graduados han recibido becas de la fundación que podrán utilizar comenzando en el otoño de 2019. “Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation se enorgullece de continuar la tradición de ayudar a los alumnos que se gradúan de Woodrow Wilson High School (WWHS) a cumplir sus metas académicas y profesionales”, dijo Richard H. Vitale, presidente de la fundación. “Desde que se comenzó en 2009, la fundación a proporcionado ayuda financiera a más de 140 estudiantes, para un total de cerca de $250,000. Felicitamos a los graduados de 2019 y les…
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Since 2015, Dallas ISD educator Roderick Goudy has worked at mastering the Toastmaster skills of public speaking and leadership, delivering speeches and taking on leadership roles in Dallas ISD Talk It Up! Toastmasters Club and at the Toastmasters’ district level as an area director, training facilitator, and mentor. Goudy credits lessons learned in Toastmasters for helping to propel him several rungs up the professional career ladder in Dallas ISD. Since 2012, he has advanced from special education teacher to distinguished teacher to first-year assistant principal at Mockingbird Elementary. “Participating in Toastmasters helped develop my interpersonal communication and presentation skills,” said…
The Dallas ISD Attendance and Truancy Education Department celebrated the power of showing up at Six Flags on Monday. All Dallas ISD students with five or fewer absences this school year received a Six Flags coupon for free entry to the park this week with the purchase of a regularly priced adult ticket. Through the help of a partnership with Six Flags Over Texas, schools promoted the Strive for No More Than 5 imitative by challenging students and parents to commit to limiting absences to no more than five days for the school year. In addition to a ribbon cutting,…
A la edad de 17, Da’Shayla Foard ya es una “veterana” del programa de prácticas profesionales. La estudiante, que comenzará el 12º grado en Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School en el otoño, participará por segunda ocasión en el programa que realiza la ciudad de Dallas que inicia el lunes. Ella es una de varios estudiantes de Dallas ISD que fueron seleccionados para el programa conocido como Dallas Mayor’s Intern Fellow Program. Asimismo, Foard estuvo entre el grupo de estudiantes que el martes se reunieron en VolunteerNow para adquirir prendas de vestir para usar durante su participación. Representantes de las empresas donde…
The Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation announced today that 25 graduating high school seniors have been awarded Foundation scholarships commencing in the fall of 2019. “The Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation is proud to continue in our tradition of assisting children graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School to achieve their academic and career goals,” said Richard H. Vitale, President of the WWHS Community Foundation. “Since the inception of this program in 2009, the Foundation has provided financial assistance to over 140 students totaling nearly $250,000 in financial aid. We congratulate the 2019 recipients and wish them continued success…
The students and teachers of J.N. Ervin Elementary will immediately notice several improvements to their campus when they come back from the summer break. More than 50 residents and employees of the pharmaceutical company AbbVie volunteered on Wednesday morning to beautify the school and add resources to the library. “For AbbVie, it is the core principle of why we exist: to serve our communities that we support,” AbbVie General Manager Lisa Peiser said. “It is inspiring. It motivates us to do more. And it makes us proud to work for a company that supports something like this.” This effort is…
Cada año, los estudiantes luchan por lograr el mejor promedio académico de su generación. Por lo general, solo un estudiante recibe esta distinción prestigiosa. Sin embargo, Fátima Roque y Tri Truong, se sorprendieron al recibir la noticia de que los dos habían logrado el primer lugar, algo que no había sucedido en mucho tiempo en Dallas ISD. Roque y Truong, de 17 años de edad, compartieron el honor durante su graduación de la School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. “Nunca imaginé que seriamos dos los que recibiríamos este honor”, dijo Roque. “Fue una gran sorpresa y…
Every year students compete for the academic honor of being named valedictorian. Traditionally, only one student is prized with this prestigious title. However, Fatima Roque and Tri Truong were in for an unusual surprise when official rankings identified two students as number one for the first time in recent Dallas ISD history. Roque and Truong, both 17, shared the valedictorian honor during their graduation from the School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. “I never imagined I’d be a dual valedictorian,” Roque said. “That was a huge surprise, and I felt excited because we are good friends.…
At 17, Da’Shayla Foard is an internship veteran. The incoming senior at Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School is scheduled to start her second internship with the City of Dallas on Monday. She’s among dozens of Dallas ISD students who were selected in the Dallas Mayor’s Intern Fellow Program. Foard was among several interns who gathered at VolunteerNow to buy clothes on Tuesday. Representatives from the hiring companies met with the students to advise them on how to build a professional wardrobe. “Everyone wears gray and black and white,” she said, while holding a pair of maroon slacks. Foard…
Dallas ISD reconoce a los valedictorians y salutatorians, los estudiantes con los dos mejores promedios académicos de cada preparatoria, de la generación de 2019. Celebramos el arduo trabajo, compromiso y dedicación que los llevó a clasificarse como los estudiantes más destacados académicamente de su generación. Estos estudiantes excelentes de educación abarcadora representan varios intereses académicos y son una verdadera muestra de la perseverancia, con lo que se comprueba que no hay ningún logro que esté fuera de su alcance. Estos dos primeros lugares son los más codiciados por los estudiantes de grado 12 y es un logro que se debe…