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National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week is April 9-15, and it’s an opportunity to celebrate those employees who help keep Dallas ISD safe! The Dallas ISD Police Department has 10 authorized police telecommunicators and one communications manager. These telecommunicators provide 24/7/365 coverage. They are responsible for answering all emergency and non-emergency calls from the Dallas ISD campuses, monitor intrusion and fire alarms, provide dispatch functions for all police personnel, as well as after-hours maintenance. They are licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. “These employees do an incredible job and deserve our recognition and praise,” Dallas ISD Police Sergeant Keith Clicque said.

Spend the next 107 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch this video, or read below, to learn more. Discover Dallas ISD Southeast Hundreds of families got a firsthand look at what Dallas ISD schools in Southeast Dallas have to offer thanks to a fun, festive event held at H. Grady Spruce High School. (Learn more) Celebration in Balch Springs The Young Women’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs celebrated its transition to a single-gender campus at a naming ceremony on Wednesday. (See photos) Beeping egg hunt Nearly 80 visually impaired students…

Dallas ISD is simplifying the process for how students can transfer to other district schools. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said at Thursday’s board meeting that simplifying the student transfer process will help more families find their best fit Dallas ISD school. Students will now be able to transfer schools for any reason, whereas, before, they had to have a curriculum- or hardship-related reason. Also, students who have been approved for transfer into a school will no longer have to reapply every year to attend that school, as long as there are still available spots at the campus. The process change will…

Nearly 80 visually impaired students from 42 Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) campuses participated in a special Easter egg hunt on April 13 just for them. The event, which was coordinated by the Dallas ISD Special Education Vision Department and AT&T, used special eggs that emitted beeps to allow visually impaired students to find them more easily. In addition to the beeping egg hunt, enjoyed dying easter eggs, cookie decorating, and more. Watch the above video to learn more.

Hoy, oficiales del distrito, representantes electos y padres se unieron al personal y las estudiantes de Young Women’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs para hacer oficial el cambio de nombre de la escuela, marcando así la transición de una escuela secundaria tradicional a una academia STEAM solo para alumnas. Entre los asistentes estuvieron exalcaldes e integrantes del concejo municipal de Balch Springs y actuales integrantes del ayuntamiento. Los oradores felicitaron a la escuela por su progreso desde que abrió sus puertas en agosto pasado para servir a alumnas desde sexto a octavo grado. El auditorio estuvo lleno en su mayoría…

When the NCAA Women’s Final Four came to Dallas last month, Robert T. Hill Middle School seventh-grader Maria Gonzales got a piece of the spotlight as the basketball tournament’s “junior journalist.” She conducted on-camera interviews with former players and coaches and reported on the Tourney Town fan festival and the 3-on-3 alumni tournament. The three reports were posted to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Facebook page. Watch them below. Familiar Faces Tourney Town fan festival 3-on-3 alumni tournament

Marking a transition from a traditional co-ed middle school to an all-girls STEAM academy, today district officials, elected representatives and parents joined with the staff and students of the Young Women’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs for a naming ceremony. In a program attended by Balch Springs’ current and former mayors and members of the Balch Springs City Council, speakers congratulated the school on its progress since opening last August to serve girls in grades six through eight. A sea of girls in white shirts and purple plaid skirts made up most of the audience, while their peers smiled and welcomed…

Cientos de familias pudieron ver de primera mano todo lo que ofrecen las escuelas de Dallas ISD en el sureste de Dallas ISD durante el evento Descubre Dallas ISD-sureste que se llevó a cabo el sábado, 8 de abril, en Spruce High School, en el área de Pleasant Grove. En el evento hubo representantes de los patrones de asistencia de las preparatorias H. Grady Spruce, W.W. Samuell y Seagoville. Además de tener la oportunidad de hablar con personal de las escuelas, los visitantes también pudieron ver demostraciones en vivo y presentaciones de los estudiantes. El objetivo del evento fue resaltar…

Eight Dallas ISD schools are advancing to the Destination Imagination Global Finals being held May 24–27 in Knoxville, Tenn! The teams advanced out of the State Destination Imagination Tournament held April 8 in Lubbock. Destination Imagination is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. Participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem-solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at a tournament. The Dallas ISD teams head to…

Emmett J. Conrad High School’s Jorge Bahena, Trishna Biswa and Karla Bocanegra won Saturday’s Cooking Up Change competition with their Crispy Chicken Tender Wrap, Sassy Italian Corn and Banana Delight menu. Cooking up Change® is a national healthy cooking competition launched by Healthy Schools Campaign.  It challenges teams of high school culinary students to create menu items that are not only healthy, but also meet nutrition guidelines and the budgetary constraints (about $1 per meal) that School Food Services programs across the country face today.  It’s a program that allows students to be involved in the conversation as campuses across the…