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At their October meeting, members of the Dallas ISD Teen School Board elected officers for the 2016-2017 year. The officers are: Alex Poscente, President, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Ontario Brown, Vice President, Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy Glenda Meyer, Secretary, Moisés E. Molina High School Kyra Ughulu, Service Project Chairperson, Seagoville High School The Teen Board is a student advisory group comprising the presidents of each high school’s junior and senior classes. The students meet monthly to discuss the issues and concerns of their schoolmates and present them to the superintendent and trustees.…

REAL School Gardens and Vizient recently teamed up to install a new outdoor garden/classroom at Stephen C. Foster Elementary. REAL School Gardens aims to create learning gardens that grow successful students. Meanwhile, Vizient, Inc., based in Irving, is the largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the country, serving academic medical centers, pediatric facilities, and community hospitals, among others. REAL School Gardens and Vizient had previously teamed up to beautify DeGoyler Elementary. Photos courtesy Bethany Erickson.

Several assistant principals and campus instructional coaches from Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) schools met at Annie Webb Blanton Elementary to hold the first Transformation Academy. The purpose of the gathering was to study best practices in teaching and learning and to observe Master Principals. “Our goal is to empower assistant principals and principals to learn from transformational leaders so they can continue to carry forth the work and have great results for students,” said Jolee Healey, Executive Director of ACE schools. Dallas ISD launched the ACE Plan, which stands for Accelerating Campus Excellence, as a way to provide strong leadership, effective teaching and…

The robotics team at the Science and Engineering Magnet has helped convert an RV into a mobile tech lab! The students travel with the refurbished RV, known as the Mobile Tech XPerience, to teach robotics, 3D modeling and printing in underserved areas. The robotics team’s incredible work has earned them status as the CW33 Class Act of the Week. Go here to see the full story from CW 33.

The number of career certifications received by Dallas ISD students has increased by more than 3,500 percent since 2009–2010, and students like Damian, a senior at W.H. Adamson High School, are benefiting. Damian is in Adamson High School’s automotive technology program and plans to become a Porsche Master Technician. Thanks to the program that provides students with hands-on experience repairing and learning about cars, Damian has a big head start as he races toward his dream. “This program has helped me in leaps and bounds,” Damian said. “Every class teaches me something I didn’t know and that I can use…

Meet Giovanni (“Gio”) Cischke, an eighth-grade student at Benjamin Franklin Middle School and a Boy Scout working on becoming an Eagle Scout. As Benjamin Franklin celebrates its 60th year and transitions into being an International Baccalaureate Program school, Cischke wanted to contribute something back to his school, its staff and his fellow students. For his Eagle Scout Project, Cischke decided he would paint his school’s six sets of entrance doors, all the exterior hand railings, and the information sign post. With the help of his Principal, Joseph Sotelo, he contacted Jane Didear with Dallas ISD’s Volunteer and Partnership Services department, to obtain…

Entérate de los más recientes acontecimientos en el segmento de “Esta Semana en Dallas ISD”.

Community and business leaders serving as Principal For a Day, an alum being one of nine finalists for a huge NCAA award, and a Hollywood star launching an entrepreneurship competition in Dallas ISD were among this week’s highlights. Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more! Piedmont goes GLOBAL Students and community members gathered to celebrate the newly named Piedmont GLOBAL Academy. Formerly known as John B. Hood Middle School, students led the effort to change the name to reflect the school’s global academic focus and positive atmosphere. (Watch this) Student-athletes watch inspirational documentary The African American Success…

The Nick Cannon Foundation, in collaboration with Dallas ISD’s Career and Technical Education Program and JPMorgan Chase and Co., have announced the launch of a new competition for Dallas youth called “America’s Teen Mogul (ATM) Summit and Student Business Plan Competition.” Cannon announced the launch of the competition on Monday, Oct. 10, at Conrad High School. The ATM competition is designed to educate youth ages 12 to 19 in the global career and entrepreneurship opportunities available in the entertainment industry and growing middle-skill priority job sectors. “I see a bunch of leaders, a bunch of future movers and shakers in…

Did you know that nationally 7.3 million children have at least one parent in jail or prison?  What does this mean for schools and educators? The emotional turmoil is difficult for everyone to handle when there is a parent that is incarcerated, so much so that statistics sadly reveals that 70 percent of these kids with an incarcerated parent are doomed to follow in the same footsteps. But as educators, you can make a difference with this population just by understanding the issue. The Dallas ISD, in partnership with the “National Prison Summit on Mass Incarceration, presents The School to…