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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has visited Dallas ISD twice in the past month, once to unveil a school safety plan and just last week to gather input from teachers and officials on the best ways to educate children. On Aug. 29, the Dallas Morning News published an op-ed piece Abbott wrote about boosting funding for the state’s public schools. In it, he cites some of the incredible academic news in Dallas ISD. “Texas has already seen substantial student gains from similar reforms in Dallas, which is arguably leading the nation’s greatest urban education turnaround,” Abbott writes. “Five years ago, Dallas…

Five-year-old Canon Lindenmeyer had an anticlimactic start to the school year at Walnut Hill Elementary School. Because he attended the school’s tuition-based pre-K program last school year, Lindenmeyer knew what to expect when he started kindergarten on Aug. 20. There were no tears or “I don’t want to go to school” on the first day; just a happy kid ready to learn and see his friends. “After attending pre-K through the tuition option last year, he is now so prepared and independent in kindergarten,” said Clarisa Lindenmeyer, Cannon’s mom. “It’s amazing how much your child can grow over the course…

La Junta Escolar de Dallas ISD, el liderazgo del distrito y la comunidad se pusieron de pie para ovacionar a 13 escuelas que se esforzaron arduamente por mejorar el aprovechamiento estudiantil el año pasado y, por ello, ya no se encuentran en la lista de las escuelas con bajo rendimiento. El Dallas ISD ha logrado una reducción significativa en el número de escuelas calificadas en necesidad de mejorar (IR), de 43 en 2013-2014, a solo cuatro en 2017-2018. En la Junta Escolar del 23 de agosto, el superintendente Michael Hinojosa atribuyó el impresionante cambio en las 13 escuelas a los líderes…

El programa de Educación para Talentosos y Dotados (TAG) de Dallas ISD está aceptando nominaciones para estudiantes de 1o a 5o grado. Se aceptan nominaciones del 27 de agosto al 7 de septiembre. Los padres, tutores legales y miembros de la comunidad pueden nominar a los estudiantes e incluso, los alumnos pueden nominarse a sí mismos. Los paquetes informativos se encuentran con el maestro del programa TAG en las escuelas en su comunidad. Los alumnos deben estar inscritos en el Dallas ISD para poder ser evaluados. Para más información, visite la página del Departamento de Servicios Académicos Avanzados.

Los estudiantes de 12 escuelas secundarias de Dallas ISD podrían tener la oportunidad de lograr mejoras académicas constantes gracias a una subvención de $7.4 millones que la Fundación Gates otorgó al Institute for Learning (IFL), un programa del Learning Research and Development Center de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Previa aprobación de la Junta Escolar en septiembre, el programa IFL colaboraría con Dallas ISD para proporcionar capacitación profesional y servicios de apoyo a equipos de maestros y administradores de las escuelas secundarias seleccionadas. El objetivo de esta sociedad sería incrementar el número de estudiantes afroamericanos, hispanos, aprendices de inglés y alumnos…

Season one of Best Schools in Dallas kicked off during the 2017-2018 school year, using Facebook Live to show viewers firsthand what makes Dallas ISD schools so special. With Season 2 of Best Schools in Dallas starting the week of Sept. 10, now is the perfect time to catch up on everything that happened in Season 1. Jimmie Tyler Brashear Elementary School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFW2jC4j-4 Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F. Florence Middle School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSfX71kL3kM&t=1s E.D. Walker Middle School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDDTTPNMInA J.P. Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwP0uFc9J8 Dan D. Rogers Elementary School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6F–2XMSOA L.O. Donald Leadership Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJlO3Ks7T8s

Students at 12 Dallas ISD secondary schools may have the opportunity to make continuous academic improvement with the help of a $7.4 million Gates Foundation grant awarded to the Institute for Learning (IFL), an outreach of the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center. Upon the Dallas ISD Board approval in September, the IFL would like to partner with Dallas ISD to provide professional learning and support services to teams of teachers and administrators from the selected secondary schools. The focus of the partnership would be to increase the number of African-American, English Learners, Latino, and low-income students identified as on…

On Friday, Aug. 24, students from seven Dallas ISD elementary schools celebrated a donation of uniforms to their schools by Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities and JCPenney with a pep rally-style event at Ellis Davis Field House. John Quincy Adams, James Bowie, J.N. Ervin, Tom Field, Martin Luther King Jr., Umphrey Lee and Herbert Marcus elementary schools are among campuses that together received a total of 3,000 donated uniforms valued at $150,000. To showcase the donations, students from each school modeled examples of the uniforms on a raised runway. They also carried signs declaring how many uniforms their particular schools…

Jiv Daya has donated kindles to grades 3–5 in six feeder patterns! At Camp Kindle, several teachers from each network learned how to best use kindles as a learning tool. The training was done by Jiv Daya, Dallas ISD IT, Personalized Learning and the Blended Learning Coaches from School Leadership. Watch the above video for a spooky fun look into the camp.

The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees, district leadership and community members gave a standing ovation to the 13 Dallas ISD schools that diligently worked to improve student performance last school year and, as a result, are no longer on the list of the state’s lowest-performing schools. Dallas ISD has achieved a steep decline in the number of Improvement Required (IR) campuses, from 43 in 2013-2014 to four in 2017-2018. At the Aug. 23 board meeting, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa credited the district leaders, campus leaders, and outstanding teachers for the phenomenal turnaround at the 13 schools. “When you have dedicated leaders…