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Dallas ISD trustees unanimously voted Thursday night to approve changing the names of four district campuses named after Confederate generals. Stonewall Jackson, William L. Cabell, Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee elementary schools will receive new names. Each school will establish committees made of teachers, parents and administrators to determine new names for the four campuses. Those committees will then bring the recommended new school names before the board by February. Trustees will vote whether to approve the new recommended school names at the regularly scheduled Feb. 22 board meeting. The new names will go into effect July 1,…

The Junior League of Dallas (JLD), along with presenting sponsor Texas Instruments (TI), awarded 69 Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) educators with grants of up to $2,000 each through the Grants for Innovative Teaching (GFIT) program. Go here to see a full list of the awarded grants. This JLD Signature Project has awarded more than $1.7 million to Dallas ISD educators and is designed to encourage excellence in education by funding special projects addressing: reading and literacy enrichment; diversity; special education; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); or arts and culture enrichment across one or more grade levels. This year,…

The Dallas Environmental Science Academy (DESA), along with both middle schools at Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy and Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, have been named 2017 National Blue Ribbon Schools. The announcement was made Thursday, Sept. 28, by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who recognized 342 schools across the nation. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. Each school nominated for the 2017 honor was selected as exemplary, high-performing schools as measured by state assessments, and has an economically disadvantaged population of 22 percent…

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) launches October 1, 2017 for high school seniors. National and local reports show that students who complete the FAFSA are more likely to attend college, and the sooner they complete the application the better their chances are for receiving all eligible aid. To help build momentum around the FAFSA launch date, the district’s college access partners and high school counselors will wear green FAFSA T-shirts on Friday, Sept. 29. Students and parents can turn to these campus staff members for assistance with financial aid applications for college. There are several myths about…

Woodrow Wilson High School student Mary Holt and Amari DeFrance, a student at the Seagoville Pathways to Technology Early College High School, appeared on Good Day Texas to talk about their accomplishments as entrepreneurs. The students will compete in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship National Business Competition in October in New York City. Go here to see the full story!

Two chess clubs at Dallas ISD elementary schools are having winning ways under the direction of coach Yolanda Peña at Louise Wolff Kahn and Arcadia Park. In April, both clubs competed in the UIL chess puzzle competition. The Kahn fifth-graders took first and second place, and fourth-graders placed third and fourth. Third-graders, who were new to chess club last year, placed first, second and third. Arcadia Park’s fifth-graders placed fourth and second. A chess puzzle requires players to know the chess pieces and rules to solve chess-related problems, often finding the very best move or series of moves as a…

As part of the week-long celebration of NFL Play 60, the Dallas Cowboys Rookie Club and Essilor Vision Foundation teamed up to bring an NFL PLAY 60 / READ 20 clinic to James Bowie Elementary School in Dallas on Tuesday, September 26. Prior to the start of the clinic, Essilor Vision Foundation set up a vision event for the fifth-grade class. The vision event focused on vision as a driver of overall wellness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vision impairment is one of the most prevalent disabling conditions among children in the U.S. Good vision is crucial…

Dallas ISD’s ongoing “Super Heroes: Teaming for Success” initiative hit a major milestone on Sept. 26. The district hosted a schoolwide literacy celebration for more than 500 students at Paul L. Dunbar Learning Center in South Dallas. The initiative, which has the goal of fostering a lasting culture of literacy within the district, will increase access to books in both the classroom and in students’ homes. This event included the unveiling of classroom library makeovers for all pre-K – 5 classrooms at the elementary school, donated by Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company. Presenters and special guests…

Meet Rover; Texas Instruments’ first robot for educational use to help promote computer programming in a fun and simple way. He’s blue, he has wheels, and he can dance. Talented and Gifted students at William B. Travis Academy were among the first in the country to play and interact with Rover during an unveiling. The students learned to use calculators to program him to dance.

The STEM Department partnered with Ten80 Education to provide an opportunity for eight schools to participate in the STEM Innovators-in-Training Experience. Hands-on workshops included work with model race cars, coding, gaming and flying/powering paper airplanes, among other experiences. After the event, participants can submit entries into challenges ranging rom game concepts to an innovative business pitch to earn cash prizes to further project development. District schools participating included David W. Carter High School, Hillcrest High School, Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, James Madison High School, Justin F. Kimball High School, Lincoln High School Collegiate Academy, Skyline High School and…