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More than 300 volunteers from Fidelity Investments joined Thomas Jefferson High School students and teachers over the weekend to pick up hammers, brushes, paint and cleaning supplies to give the school a fresh face-lift to celebrate the new school year. As part of Fidelity Investments’ School Transformation Day, volunteers enhanced the campus for its more than 1,700 students, teachers and staff by: Renovating the Newcomer Room and Parent Station area that greet new English Language Learner (ELL) students and their families as they enroll at Thomas Jefferson; Upgrading the Family Life Skills room to better serve special needs students as…

Macario Hernandez, director de la escuela Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School at Mountain View, decidió ejercer como educador para ser un modelo a seguir para los jóvenes de Dallas, al igual que maestros de la preparatoria Sunset High School hicieron con él. Homenajeaos al Director Hernandez, como parte del Mes de la Herencia Hispana.

Woodrow Wilson High School student Mary Holt and Amari DeFrance, a student at the Seagoville Pathways to Technology Early College High School, are heading to a national competition for entreperenuers, and they need your help! The students are competing in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship National Business Competition this month in October in New York City. The public can vote on their business ideas to help them win the competition. Holt and her friend and former classmate, Hannah Wahl, have a business idea called Brownie Bar. The business would be a food stand, a la Chipotle, where customers could customize all-natural brownie orders…

Macario Hernandez, principal at Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School at Mountain View College, became an educator to make a positive impact on Dallas’ youth, just as teachers at Sunset High School made a positive impact on him. We salute Principal Hernandez, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Dallas ISD’s commitment to success drives the district’s search for innovative, enthusiastic team members with the courage to lead. Dallas ISD welcomes potential candidates to join the district’s community of educators and administrators who bring diverse skills and experience, thought leadership, and a passion for delivering effective and innovative instruction to the 161,000 students of Dallas ISD. Go here to search available Dallas ISD jobs in teaching, campus leadership and non-instructional.

La escuela Dallas Environmental Science Academy (DESA), así como las secundarias en Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy e Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, fueron nombradas como escuelas National Blue Ribbon para el 2017. Así lo anunció hoy Betsy DeVos, secretaria de Educación de Estados Unidos, quien reconoció a 342 escuelas del país. Dicho reconocimiento se basa en el rendimiento académico en general de la escuela o en el progreso logrado para reducir la brecha de aprovechamiento entre los grupos de estudiantes. Cada escuela nominada fue seleccionada como ejemplar y con un alto rendimiento, según las evaluaciones estatales, y…

Spend the next 101 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more. Feeling Blue Three Dallas ISD schools have earned the national 2017 Blue Ribbon Schools award, one of the highest honors for a campus (see the schools). Training with Dallas Cowboys  The Dallas Cowboys Rookie Club and Essilor Vision Foundation celebrated the NFL’s PLAY 60/READ 20 initiative this week at James Bowie Elementary School (watch this). Read this Paul Dunbar Learning Center hosted a schoolwide literacy celebration on Tuesday. Scholastic donated books to…

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…