Texas Public Schools Week is Feb. 27-March 3, which is a time to celebrate the role public schools play in setting students up for success. Thursday, March 2, is Celebrate Texas Public Schools Day. In recognition, watch the above video to see what makes Dallas ISD special.
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The Trinity Chapter of The Links, Inc. is proud to announce the celebration of its 10th Anniversary of its signature “Diamonds and Sneakers” Gala. The Gala will be held March 4 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel at 6 p.m. The evening of diamonds and sneakers will include dinner and dancing with the popular David White Band. The gala supports an enrichment program developed by the Trinity Links in 2000 for Dallas Independent School District elementary and middle school girls called SoSMAART. The programs are held at Thomas L. Marsalis Elementary School and William Hawley Atwell Law Academy. SoSMAART, which stands…
Dylan Arnette, a junior at Carter High School, is a star both on and off the basketball court. As both the leading scorer on the basketball team and holder of the top GPA in his class, CW 33 has made Arnette its Class Act of the Week. Go here to see the CW 33 story on what makes the student so special.
The boys basketball teams at Madison, Lincoln and Skyline high schools are competing in the regional tournament later this week. The games with Dallas ISD teams scheduled for March 3 are: Madison High Schools v. Mount Vernon High School: 6 p.m. at Rockwall Heath High School Lincoln High School v. Paris High School: 8 p.m. at Texas A&M Commerce Skyline High School v. Dekaney High School: 8 p.m. at Ellis Davis Field House The winners of these games will play the following day. The Hub will post the results on these games.
Dr. Cynthia Wilson, chief of staff for the Dallas Independent School District, announced this week she has accepted a position to work in a similar role for Houston ISD. Pamela Lear has been appointed as Dallas ISD’s new chief of staff, effective April 1. Lear has served Dallas ISD in various leadership capacities since 2012 and began her career with the district as director of High School Redesign. Her experience in education spans nearly 30 years, when beginning as a teacher in southern California. Currently, Lear is one of two deputy chiefs of School Leadership and is responsible for leading…
Four campuses have advanced to the next round in the NCAA’s Read to the Final Four® contest for Dallas Independent School District third-graders. The bracket style tournament mimics the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament schedule, with schools advancing based on how many minutes students read outside school hours. Since November, third-graders from across the district have been counting the number of minutes they read each day. The Final Four advanced from the Elite 8 round. The schools in the Final Four are Highland Meadows Elementary, José “Joe” May Elementary, T.G. Terry Elementary, and Pleasant Grove Elementary. The prizes provided by the NCAA and the…
El Dallas ISD ha identificado a los directores de alto rendimiento que liderarán las seis nuevas escuelas ACE el próximo año. El año pasado el distrito lanzó el programa ACE, que significa Accelerating Campus Excellence, en siete escuelas con un rendimiento históricamente bajo. El programa ayuda a mejorar el rendimiento de los estudiantes, proporcionando a dichas escuelas directores y maestros altamente eficientes. Después de solo un año, seis de estas escuelas cumplieron con las normas estatales este año, y las siete presentan una considerable mejoría en el rendimiento estudiantil. El distrito piensa darle continuidad a este exitoso programa agregando seis…
Por medio de los talleres PREP U, que se ofrecen durante la semana, el Dallas ISD les ofrece a las familias una serie de talleres para conocer más sobre las próximas evaluaciones estatales, State Assessments of Academic Readiness, mejor conocida como STAAR. Los talleres son interactivos y las familias tendrán la oportunidad de ver ejemplos de las preguntas en lectura, matemáticas y escritura, así como aprender sobre la puntuación necesaria para aprobar. Habrá personal del distrito para contestar sus preguntas sobre lo importante que es el examen STAAR como requisito para graduarse de la preparatoria y otros temas. Al asistir…
Dallas ISD’s Office of Transformation and Innovation (OTI) today announced the brand new choice offerings identified through the Public School Choice 3.0 selection process. The chosen schools include one neighborhood school redesigning its academic model for all its students, one school piloting an innovative program, and one brand new middle school that will be open to all district students. Felix G. Botello Elementary School, located in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood, will launch as an Innovation School with a new Personalized Learning academic model beginning in August 2017. As the only elementary AVID model school site in the district, Botello has a…
A ribbon-cutting followed student choir, band and drama performances as staff, parents and students gathered for the naming ceremony for the Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred Florence Middle School, the district’s newest single-gender school for boys. Math Instructional Coach Derek Thomas opened the event and served as emcee, and Principal Dawn Walker welcomed district and city officials and community members. Speakers included District 4 Trustee Jaime Resendez, who reflected on his experiences growing up in the same Pleasant Grove community where the school is located. He said he owed much of his personal and professional success to hours spent…