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The SOLAR Preparatory School for Girls has turned lemons into a Project Based Learning experience. All students participated in the longterm project that taught them a variety of skills. The students helped build and paint lemonade stands and developed advertisements and sales techniques. Students also read fiction texts in which the main characters are selling lemonade. Parent volunteers helped the girls build the stands form scratch. SOLAR Prep is a Transformation School and part of the Public School Choice Imitative that opened in August 2016. SOLAR Prep also uses a blended learning model, in which lessons are taught in small groups. Students learn from the teacher and each…

Parents and volunteers provided breakfast and snacks every day last week to all staff at Urban Park Elementary School. Staff also enjoyed a specially decorated room where they could go and relax. The Urban Park Elementary community liaison helped coordinate the meals, which were in honor of Dallas ISD Teacher Appreciation Week, May 1–5.

Five seniors from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts have been accepted into one of the most prestigious performing universities in the nation. WFAA has the story on how of the 12 young men accepted worldwide into the Juilliard School’s dance program, five come from Dallas ISD. Go here to see the full WFAA story.

The T.C. Marsh Leadership Cadet Corps earned three championship titles at the 2017 Drill Battle of DFW competition last month in DeSoto. The Marsh cadets competed with schools from Red Oak, DeSoto, Glen Heights, Fort Worth and the Dallas area. They were evaluated on precision, overall appearance, command voice and military bearing. Marsh placed in five out of six categories, taking the top honors in three: Unarmed Regulation Drill    Second place Unarmed Color Guard            Second place Unarmed Exhibition Drill    2017 DRILL BATTLE CHAMPIONS Armed Regulation Drill        2017 DRILL BATTLE CHAMPIONS Armed Exhibition Drill         2017  DRILL BATTLE CHAMPIONS The Marsh Leadership Cadet Corps is led…

Trustee Dustin Marshall and Lori Kirkpatrick are headed to a runoff for the District 2 trustee seat. Neither candidate received at least 50 percent of the vote on May 6. The runoff election will be June 10. District 2 covers North and Near East Dallas. Meanwhile, Trustee Joyce Foreman won reelection for the District 6 trustee seat, which covers Southwest Dallas. Trustee Miguel Solis, who ran unopposed, won reelection for the District 8 seat, which covers Love Field, Northwest Dallas and Central Dallas.

On Friday, May 5, employees from Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and Sprouts helped plant a new school garden at Dallas ISD’s Stevens Park Elementary School. The project was coordinated by nonprofit REAL School Gardens. Students and school staff also got in on the “Big Dig” action. See additional photos on the REAL School Gardens Facebook page here.

The Dallas Independent School District celebrated School Nutrition Employee Week by honoring five exemplary schools with the annual Heart of Child Nutrition Award. These five schools were recognized for going above and beyond to provide exceptional food and a positive experience to students. Each day last week a director from Food & Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) visited an awarded school to present the certificate and prizes, and put on a hairnet to serve lunch on the cafeteria line. The five winning schools are: Gilliam Collegiate Academy, Anne Frank Elementary School, T.W. Browne Middle School, H.B. Gonzalez Elementary School, and Franklin D.…

Deloitte LLP, The Northern Texas PGA (NTPGA) and United Way have announced the recipients of the 2017 Deloitte/NTPGA Fairway to Success Scholarships. Six students will be awarded and join the 38 previous recipients. They are: Maritza Aguilar, Craig Jackson, Keja Johnson, Adriana Lopez, Tahania Sierra and Stephanie Vargas. Each student will receive a $20,000 scholarship towards his or her continuing education. The recipients were honored at a breakfast on May 1 at Lakewood Country Club. Established in 2007, the Fairway to Success Program annually awards scholarships to students based on academic performance, extracurricular activities, community involvement and financial need. Fairway…

Dos escuelas primarias han logrado clasificar para la final de baile de salón que se llevará a cabo a mediados de este mes en Arlington! Dancing Classrooms es un programa de baile de salón que consiste de 20 lecciones y en el que pudieron participar escuelas primarias del distrito. En la semifinal Colors of the Rainbow participaron estudiantes de quinto grado de las siguientes escuelas primarias: Brashear, DeGolyer, Dunbar, Foster, Harry Stone, Holland, y Zaragoza. Brashear y DeGolyer avanzaron a la final que se realizará a mediados de este mes. “El propósito del programa Dancing Classrooms es crear conciencia social y desarrollar…

El 27 de abril, cuatro estudiantes de Dallas ISD debatieron durante la primera competencia de debate Mayor’s Cup, organizada por el alcalde Mike Rawlings y la Dallas Urban Debate Alliance. El tema del debate fue “los vales escolares excluyen a los estudiantes más necesitados”. Kathy Nguyen, North Dallas High School, y Víctor Peña, Thomas Jefferson High School, debatieron a favor y Ricardo Rodríguez, W.T. White High School, y Sophie Rahman, School of Science and Engineering, debatieron en contra. Los jueces seleccionaron a Nguyen y Peña como los vencedores. Dallas Urban Debate Alliance, organización sin fines de lucro fundada en 2007,…