It’s a Thursday morning at C.F. Carr Elementary School, and education leaders from across the state are standing back and watching a group of highly engaged students discuss their latest reading assignment. The campus and district leaders from seven other school districts are taking notes and talking about what they are seeing in the classroom. The focus of the visit is the incredible turnaround Carr Elementary has seen as part of the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program, which incentivizes high-performing campus leaders and teachers to voluntarily work at low-performing schools. With the ACE program helping significantly reduce the number of…
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Cafeteria food is making a tasty comeback and students are all here for it. Dallas ISD’s Food & Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) annual Food Fest has once again given kids the opportunity to decide what goes on their school lunch menus. About 150 students from Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, Eduardo Mata Elementary School and Hector P. Garcia Middle School convened at 3015 at Trinity Groves for the tasting. With this year’s theme as “Fresh,” FCNS emphasized fresh food offerings that are healthy, visually appealing, and delicious. The event featured five different stations where participants were able to taste and…
The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees celebrated the recent outstanding athletic state champion winners at the March 29 board meeting. Trustees recognized the James Madison High School boys basketball team for winning their second state championship in three years. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa thanked the players for their great behavior and making the district proud, while Trustee Justin Henry credited the team for bouncing back from a tough start to the season. “This team is the definition of resilience,” Henry said. “Congratulations to all of you for being resilient and good champions.” Trustees also recognized Kimball High School’s Destiny Miles, who…
The School for the Talented and Gifted has earned the first College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science A. Schools honored with the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded girls’ access in AP Computer Science courses. Out of more than 18,000 secondary schools worldwide that offer AP courses, TAG is one of only 685 to accomplish this. Schools receiving the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have either 50 percent or higher female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or a percentage of the…
If your artistic middle schooler adores performing and has vowed to pursue a career in music or dance, he or she now has new academic options in Dallas ISD. Based on the success of the collegiate academy model, the district is launching two new fine arts collegiate academies in August 2019. The programs, at W.T. White and Wilmer-Hutchins high schools, will feature extensive performance options for students and training and career pathways for those who want to become arts educators. Each campus is now recruiting incoming ninth-graders for a cohort of 50 students for the 2019-2020 school year. The deadline…
El jueves, 18 de abril, las escuelas de Dallas ISD realizarán el KinderCamp, un evento para iniciar el proceso de inscripción de niños para kínder para el año escolar 2019-2020. Los padres tendrán la oportunidad de aprender sobre el currículo que se utiliza en dichos grados y los beneficios de una educación a temprana edad. Asimismo, podrán platicar con los maestros, visitar los salones de clases y disfrutar de un helado. Haga clic en el vídeo para ver como se celebró este día en una de nuestras escuelas el año pasado. Tenemos espacios de prekínder y kínder en escuelas por…
More than 1,100 students and parents attended an interactive reading event that brought books, learning, and Asian culture to life. Read for Me, the district’s annual literacy event, and the accompanying Asian Festival happened March 23 at W.H. Adamson High School. In addition to breakfast, lunch, and giveaways of 10,000-plus books, Read for Me featured dozens of different sessions–from reading workshops to animation lessons–for children of all ages and their parents. “This was our most successful Read for Me yet, with attendance more than doubling from last year,” Reading Language Arts Director Arlena Gaynor said. “We are proud of the…
A finales de marzo, se llevó a cabo el “Campus Community Day”, organizado por United to Learn, en beneficio de 23 escuelas primarias, 13,500 estudiantes y 975 maestros. Gracias a una inversión de $135,000 hecha por 38 patrocinadores de la comunidad y a la dedicación de más de 450 voluntarios, se realzaron 35 pasillos, construyeron 21 proyectos en el exterior de los planteles, renovaron 11 salones de clases, modernizaron 6 salas para maestros y espacios de trabajo en equipo, instalaron más de 11 murales inspirados en los estudiantes, y se actualizó la tecnología con un valor cercano a los $20,000.…
Schools throughout Dallas ISD will host KinderCamp on Thursday, April 18 to begin enrolling students for kindergarten for the 2019-2020 school year. Parents of incoming kinder students will have the opportunity to learn about curriculum for those grades and the advantages that an early education offers students. KinderCamp will also include meeting the teachers, visiting classrooms, and an ice cream social. Have a look at last year’s KinderCamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV9eUIuosTc&feature=youtu.be Pre-K and kindergarten spots are available in schools throughout the district. Parents can visit their neighborhood school to enroll their child
Seven Dallas ISD schools have advanced to the Global Finals of the Destination Imagination Tournament. The schools advanced out of the state competition held March 22–23 in Corpus Christi. The teams advancing to the global competition happening in May in Missouri are: Promoting creativity and teamwork to more than 100,000 schoolchildren across the United States, Destination Imagination is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended challenges and present their solutions at tournament competitions.