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Spend the next 83 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. Summer camps Dallas ISD Summer Camps kicked off across the district this week, including camps on mechanical engineering, inventions and forensics. (Learn more) Superhero Field Day Volunteers from advertising agency Publicis Hawkeye teamed up with Frederick Douglass Elementary School to celebrate Superhero Field Day during the last week of school. (Learn more) Destination Imagination Bryan Adams High School students won third place in the Destination Imagination Global Competition held in Tennessee. (Read this) National Literacy…

The Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest on Saturday will feature plays written and performed by Dallas ISD students. Dallas ISD, Kitchen Dog Theater and Junior Players have joined together to host PUP Fest at Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. As part of the New Works Festival, Pup Fest will feature an afternoon of six world premiere staged readings written and performed by some of the Dallas-area’s finest high school talent. “This is an incredible opportunity for some of our talented students to have their plays published and professionally produced,” said Rachel Harrah, director of…

Arleen Averill, a first-grade teacher at Dallas ISD’s Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa Elementary School, was recently named a Dallas Mavericks Classroom Champions Teacher of the Year. Averill said she became a teacher after seeing the relationships and connections her mother made with students as a teacher. “I love coming to these little smiling faces every day,” Averill said of her students. “They are just so excited to be here and so excited to see you in the morning, you can’t help but feel the same for them. We come here all together as a family and spend our week together.” The…

What is the best way to react if a student starts misbehaving in your class? While it’s a scenario nearly every teacher faces at one point or another, how disruptions are handled can either positively or negatively affect the student and the learning environment for the rest of the class. This week, representatives from every Dallas ISD campus are being trained how to implement Proactive Behavior Management (PBM) at their schools and in each and every classroom. The goal is to curb infractions that resulted in a total of 2,013 suspensions in 2015–2016 for students in grades pre-K through second…

The Adamson Scholarship Foundation awarded 14 graduating seniors from W.H. Adamson High School with $43,000 in scholarships at the school’s annual senior assembly on May 23. Adamson Scholarship Foundation Board Member Colleen Kelley handed out the awards that are for four years and range from $2,500 to $6,000 per year.  Students will receive the awards each year as long as they are enrolled full-time in higher education and meet grade requirements. Since its inception in 1947, the Adamson Scholarship Foundation has awarded $1.6 million in scholarships to more than 1,200 graduating seniors.

Achieve3000 has selected F.P. Caillet Elementary School as a “National Literacy Achievement” winner! This award is based on the exemplary implementation of the Achieve3000 program as well as exceptional literacy growth on campus. Additionally, fifth-graders Jonathan Ochoa Lazo and Jordan Powell were presented with the award for highest lexile reading level gains during the 2016-17 school year.

Volunteers who helped tutor Dallas ISD students via a computer throughout the school year met with the students face-to-face at end-of-year celebrations across the district. TutorMate is an online tutoring program that connects volunteers with first-grade students learning to read. Multiple Dallas-area businesses volunteered with Dallas ISD schools through TutorMate. “TutorMate has successfully merged technology and tutoring to improve reading at some of our most at-need schools,” said Tom Hayden of Dallas ISD’s Volunteer and Partnership Services. “We are grateful to our TutorMate Business Volunteers for making this support available to the Dallas ISD.” At an end-of-year celebration at T.G.…

El programa provisional de mejoras de $148 millones del distrito, conocido como interim bridge program in inglés, terminará el próximo junio, después de cumplir con la meta de hacer mejoras cruciales a la infraestructura en alrededor de 30 escuelas. Como su nombre lo indica, el programa, que fue aprobado por la Junta Escolar en 2015, fue creado como una medida temporal entre los programas de bonos de 2008 y 2015 para tratar los problemas urgentes de mantenimiento y de espacio de los planteles. Este programa provisional, financiado en parte con dinero del programa de bonos de 2008, notas de impuestos…

Thomas C. Marsh Preparatory Academy is Dallas ISD’s first Personalized Learning middle school, and its innovative programs make the campus a fantastic choice for families. The school’s mission is to provide students the tools they need to be leaders and overcome future challenges. This is done through personalized instruction and by offering a variety of quality extracurricular opportunities. Marsh serves its community as a neighborhood school, but students may also transfer to the school from elsewhere in the district.

The Dual Language Scholar Award was given to Rosemont International Language Preparatory School students who completed the Secondary Dual Language Program at a special ceremony on June 1. The students were recognized for completing rigorous academic courses in both English and Spanish for three consecutive years. They now have the opportunity to continue the Dual Language Program in high school. Upon successfully completing the high school Dual Language program, they will earn the Seal of Biliteracy on their diplomas, which denotes students who attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation. “Four years ago, we began implementing the Dual Language…