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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…

A commentary by Rossi Walter, a member of the schools committee of the Harvard Club of Dallas, was recently published in The Dallas Morning News. Walter explores why Harvard University has accepted a record number of Dallas ISD graduating seniors the past two years. The Ivy League university accepted three students from the School of Science and Engineering, two from the School for the Talented and Gifted and one from Woodrow Wilson High School. Read the entire opinion piece here.

The United States Navy Recruiting Command City Outreach Program had their 2017 Dallas Area Regional SeaPerch Underwater Robotics Challenge at Alfred J. Loos Natatorium. Competing with other school districts, Dallas ISD students built their own underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Though this project, students learn engineering concepts, problem solving, teamwork, and technical applications. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts, following a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme.

Hundreds of families got a firsthand look at what the Dallas ISD schools in Southeast Dallas have to offer on Saturday, April 8. The Discover Dallas ISD-Southeast Dallas event brought together representatives from the schools in the H. Grady Spruce, W.W. Samuell and Seagoville high school feeder patterns. The event took place at Spruce in Pleasant Grove. In addition to having the chance to talk with campus staff, visitors saw live demonstrations and student performances. The goal was to showcase the fantastic academic and extracurricular activities the schools in Southeast Dallas have to offer at its high-quality neighborhood schools, including…

Recognized for their work in Computer Science Education, the Dallas ISD STEM Department has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the DFW Alliance of Technology and Women (DFW*ATW) through their GREATMINDS program (Girls Reaching for Education About Technology and Moving in New Directions for Success)! This generous grant will be used to provide training and stipends for the sponsors of after school coding clubs at ten elementary campuses. The clubs will meet once a week for 10 weeks this spring. The goal of the clubs is to inspire students to become creative problem solvers using the technology that is shaping the…