This year’s Dallas ISD STEM Expo was bigger, better and more fun! Conducted for the first time at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, the event provided family fun focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Caroline, a parent who attended the Expo, said the district’s large size that activities available in one school might not be available in another. “When kids get to come here, they get to see all the offerings that DISD has, all the different activities, from robotics to the kinesiology-type activities, engineering,” she said. “I think it’s great they can what there is to experience…
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About 150 Dallas ISD students tasted and rated approximately 65 food items being considered for next year’s cafeteria menu. The Dallas ISD Food and Child Nutrition Services Department will review and incorporate the students’ feedback when determining the final cafeteria menu for the 2017–2018 school year. Watch the above video for a tasty inside look at the event.
The NCAA is hosting an event in April that is open to people ages 18 and under. The free NCAA Women’s Final Four event, which will be April 2 at the Victory Plaza at American Airlines Center, will see thousands of fans dribbling their way downtown and into Tourney Town – the official fan festival of the Women’s Final Four event. The first 2,000 participants to preregister will receive a free basketball and t-shirt. Learn more, and preregister, here.
Voters in Dallas ISD trustee districts 2 and 6 will have the chance to cast ballots for their representatives on the Board of Trustees in the May 6 election. District 8 Trustee Miguel Solis is running to return to the board unopposed. Solis was elected in November 2013 to complete the unexpired term of Adam Medrano, who was elected to the Dallas City Council. Solis was re-elected to serve a three-year term in May 2014. District 2 Incumbent Dustin Marshall faces challengers Richard D. Young and Lori Kirkpatrick. Marshall was elected to the board in June 2016 to complete the…
A medida que avanza el programa de bonos de $1.6 mil millones de Dallas ISD, una de las prioridades es adjudicar contratos para las docenas de adiciones a los planteles, renovaciones y nuevas escuelas que serán construidas, a empresas pertenecientes a minorías y mujeres (M/WBE). De hecho, la Junta Escolar del distrito ha fijado dos metas para apoyar este esfuerzo – adjudicar 35 por ciento de participación a minorías y mujeres en servicios profesionales financiados por el programa de bonos, como la administración del programa, diseño arquitectónico, y estudios del terreno, y 30 por ciento de participación en la construcción…
Durante el periodo de presentación de solicitudes que finalizó el 31 de enero, las escuelas y programas académicos especiales del Dallas ISD recibieron más de 18,000 solicitudes. Los estudiantes tuvieron aproximadamente dos meses para presentar su solicitud para una escuela magnet, escuela de transformación, programa de lenguaje dual bilateral o una de las academias universitarias de Dallas ISD. Stephanie Elizalde, jefa de liderazgo escolar de Dallas ISD, dijo que la cantidad de solicitudes que se presentaron muestra que existe una gran demanda por formar parte de los programas especiales y escuelas del distrito. “El Dallas ISD está comprometido a proporcionar…
The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) and Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) announced today the more than 24 Dallas businesses that will partner with the district’s 10 new collegiate academies opening next school year. The industry partners will provide students with mentorship, job interviews, site visits, and some will be selected for internship opportunities. Dallas ISD and DCCCD revealed the new industry partners at a special ceremony held at City Performance Hall. “We owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to these industry partners who have stepped up to provide real-world experience for our students,” Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said.…
A little change can go a long way. Students from 19 Dallas ISD schools collected a total of $23,638.39 to donate to 24 Dallas-area nonprofit organizations through the 19th annual Common Cents Pennies from the Heart campaign. The effort aims to encourage students to give back to their communities through charitable giving. Students collected spare change from classmates at their schools through December 2016. On Wednesday, Feb. 22, students presented checks to the nonprofit organizations they selected to receive the donations. Awards were given for the top fundraising schools. Skyline High School won theLouise Gartner Common Cents Pennies from the Heart…
African Americans have had immeasurable impact and contributed to the quality, progress and access of education to all races and creeds within the Dallas Independent School District and community. Read about some of our schools’ namesakes and their historical contributions to Dallas ISD. Booker T. Washington: Booker T. Washington taught himself to read after long days of working in a coal mine and salt furnace in West Virginia. A graduate of Hampton Institute in West Virginia, Washington would later return to his alma mater to teach classes there. In 1881, he created the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Before he…
As part of an effort to meet the district goal of every student engaging in a co-curricular or extra-curricular activity, the Dallas ISD Student Activities Department, Special Education Department and STEM Department hosted the district’s first ever Special Needs Robotics Scrimmage. Sunset High School, W.H. Gaston Middle School, the Young Women’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs, Billy Earl Dade Middle School and J.L. Long Middle School each had a team compete in the event held Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the H.B. Bell Building. The teams faced off with their VEX IQ robots, aiming to complete as many tasks as they…