Author: The Hub

Often, sports can carry a bigger purpose than what happens on the court or field. That’s the case this year when Spence Coach Scott Brothers’ futsal team dedicated its Disney Scholastic Futsal Tournament to his wife Diana, who is battling breast cancer. To show their support for Diana Brothers, the sixth-grade girls wore pink socks with their uniforms. And they won the futsal tournament in early March, going 4-0. Futsal is a modified form of soccer played with five players per side on a smaller indoor field. https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2018/03/19/two-dallas-isd-teams-heading-to-futsal-championships-this-summer/ Many of these girls will be going to North Dallas in a few years,…

Emir Price is making Dallas ISD history as the first U.S. Presidential Scholar from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Theatre Program. A national ceremony in Washington, D.C., in June will honor Price and 160 other outstanding American high school seniors named Presidential Scholars. While Price appreciates the national recognition, his life goal is much more local: he wants to elevate Black theatre in Dallas. Price’s mother, Guinea Bennett-Price, is a Booker T. Washington HSPVA teacher and co-founder/co-artistic director of Soul Rep Theatre Company, which provides transformative Black theatre in Dallas. Price, who will…

The 18 Dallas ISD P-TECH schools are now officially part of the national P-TECH network and among the 90 schools featured on the organization’s website at ptech.org. At Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools (P-TECH), students can choose a career pathway and take courses that provide academic, technical and workplace skills. Students have the potential to earn an associate’s degree in four to six years, along with industry certificates for their selected career pathway — opportunities that can potentially lead to paid internships and job placement after graduation. Students also have the opportunity to earn up to 60 hours…

The W.H. Adamson High School Alumni Association recently held its 18th Annual All-Class Reunion at the school. Located in Oak Cliff, Adamson High School is the oldest continuously-active high school in Dallas ISD. On the Friday prior to the reunion, the Adamson Alumni 2018 Charity Golf Classic was held at the Prairie Lakes Golf Course. Saturday’s all-class reunion included activities for all former students, including the reunion program, induction of outstanding alumni and faculty into the Adamson Hall of Honor, tours of the school, and a luncheon in the school cafeteria catered by the favorite Norma’s Restaurant. Oak Cliff High School…

The W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy boys baseball team are the middle school district champs! The Greiner team beat J.L. Long Middle School in the final. “This team would come to practice and work hard every day. We would work on mistakes we had made in the previous game in order to prepare us for the next game,” said Coach Wayne Pridgett. “The team understood that we all must be prepared and working together as a team, so they would put in the hard work every practice.”

Irene Aguilar se encontraba imprimiendo un formulario en Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School cuando, de repente, escuchó a un maestro colapsar debido a un paro cardiaco. Aguilar, encargada de la oficina de la escuela, rápidamente llamó a Beata Fik, enfermera de la escuela, y a Amparo Guzmán, consejera. Su capacitación en primeros auxilios entró en efecto mientras utilizaban el desfibrilador de la escuela y la reanimación cardiopulmonar (RCP) para ayudar al maestro sustituto, que había perdido el pulso. “Es asombroso como todas jugamos un papel importante para salvarle la vida”, dijo Guzmán. Hoy en día, el maestro sustituto puede caminar…

Seven members of Dallas ISD’s Class of 2018 have been awarded this year’s Deloitte/NTPGA Fairway to Success scholarships. Established in 2007, the Fairway to Success program annually awards scholarships to students based on academic performance, extracurricular activities, community involvement and financial need. The program covers three DISD high schools – W.W. Samuell, Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln – and includes introducing students to golf and the life lessons of discipline, honor and integrity that are central to the game. The students are Daniel Akwei (Jefferson), Ashley Crispin (Samuell), Elia Espinosa (Jefferson), Juwon Grant (Lincoln), Francheska Johnson (Lincoln) and Sonya Soto (Jefferson),…

Students at Dallas ISD’s J.J. Rhoads Learning Center were inspired and encouraged by a visit from Miss Texas Margana Wood on Thursday, May 10. She has also recently visited other district schools. Wood highlighted her anti-bullying platform by using the word “SMART” to teach students what to do when they see bullying. S is for speak up; M is for mean kids are not the cool kids; A is for apologize when you hurt someone’s feelings; R is for respecting differences; and T is for teamwork. Five teachers served as pageant contestants and answered mock interview questions, which Wood called…

Dos escuelas en el Distrito Escolar Independiente de Dallas (Dallas ISD) siguen destacándose a nivel estatal y nacional entre las mejores preparatorias de 2018, según la revista U.S. News & World Report. Entre ellas, la School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center (TAG) ha sido clasificada como la segunda mejor preparatoria en Texas, y la número 11 en la nación. Esta no es la única escuela con altos honores. La School of Science and Engineering (SEM) at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center fue clasificada como la tercera mejor preparatoria del estado, y la número 13…

The Dallas ISD Social Studies hosted the 2018 Model UN Conference at Ellis Davis Field House on May 1. Students represented nine countries and discussed resolution issues on 10 of the top literacy and technology issues across the world. The students also created table displays for their country, including facts, information and food samples. Sixth-graders from these schools participated: Piedmont G.L.O.B.A.L. Academy Rosemont Middle School J.L. Long Middle School Raul Quintanilla Senior Middle School Zan Wesley Holmes Middle School Thomas C. Marsh Middle School D.A. Hulcy Middle SChool Students from W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy and Alex W. Spence Middle School…