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The Texas Education Agency announced that 68 percent of Dallas ISD campuses have earned at least one academic distinction designation, up from 60 percent of schools in 2015. For reference, 57.6 percent of Dallas ISD campuses in 2014 and 55.2 percent of campuses in 2013 earned at least one distinction. Overall, 17 Dallas ISD campuses in 2016 earned the maximum possible number of distinctions for their group. “We are encouraged that more of our schools are earning academic distinctions, and all of our teachers, principals and staff should take pride in work they are doing every day,” Dallas ISD Chief…

Thomas Jefferson High School will host the second Prep U Super Saturday event of the 2016-2017 school year on September 17 from 9 a.m–noon. Parents from throughout the Thomas Jefferson High School feeder pattern are encouraged to come out and take advantage of the available free resources. Prep U events are presented by the Dallas ISD Office of Family and Community Engagement, and are designed to help parents by providing a free, “one-stop-shop” where community organizations offer strategies and resources to support children academically, emotionally and socially. The event will include Dallas City Hall on the Go and over 40…

¿Quieres enterarte de los más recientes acontecimientos en Dallas ISD pero solo tienes 129 segundos? La última edición de “Esta Semana En Dallas ISD” te ofrece un resúmen.

Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Dallas ISD, a quick rundown of the many great things that happened in the district over the past week! Go here to watch a 98-second video recap of the week, or read below. Innovative teaching grants The Junior League of Dallas donated 54 grants totaling $93,000 to fund innovative school and classroom projects in Dallas ISD. (Learn more) Operation Comeback District employees manned the Operation Comeback phone bank this week to reach out to the families of students who have not yet shown up for classes this school year. (Read this)…

Dallas ISD Board of Trustees Vice President Edwin Flores is hosting a District 1 community forum at W.T. White High School. The community forum will be Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

The League of Women Voters and LULAC are recruiting volunteers in the community to explain the importance of the voting process to Dallas ISD students. Both organizations are visiting schools during lunch and history or government classes to encourage students to register vote. The main objective is for students to understand that elected officials make big decisions and they listen to the people who vote. The deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 11, in order to be registered in time to vote Nov. 8. More than 100 students registered to vote earlier this month at Skyline High School during one such visit. Volunteers will…

An official from the USDA got a firsthand look at food and culinary programs at two Dallas ISD schools on Thursday, Sept. 15. Audrey Rowe, who oversees School Nutrition programs for the federal organization, visited Wilmer-Hutchins High School to eat breakfast with students and get a taste of the breakfast smoothie program. The second stop was at the Balch Springs Young Women’s STEAM Academy, where Rowe sampled vegetable quesadillas, salsa and drinks prepared by students in the Lifetime Nutrition and Wellness Class. The corn salsa used this month’s Harvest of the Month – fresh sweet corn from J&B Farms in…

NBC 5 has the story on how donorschoose.org is connecting teachers with donors who want to help. The story, which you can watch here, focuses on an eighth-grade A.V.I.D. classroom at W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy. A.V.I.D., which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college readiness program that helps accelerate student learning. “What I like about this class is that it prepares me for college and it really shows me about leadership,” said Sierra Lauera, a student in the A.V.I.D. class Mrs. Hatcher, the A.V.I.D. teacher, is using donorschoose.org to help get supplies for her classroom. Go here…

Delaney Shiu, a student at Hillcrest High School and editor of the Hillcrest Hurricane, the school’s student-run newspaper, wrote this article. For the past eight years at Hillcrest High School, the senior class has participated in a tradition known as senior retreat, two days where seniors don’t go to classes and participate in a number of amusing activities. The activities vary but this year, the days consisted of community service, listening to speakers, swimming, and attending various breakout sessions designed to help students prepare for life after graduation. The first day of the retreat, Aug. 24, students boarded buses and…

Efforts are currently under way to find the approximately 7,600 students designated as “no-shows,” or students in Dallas ISD’s system who have yet to show up for classes this school year. Dubbed “Operation Comeback,” the coordinated effort to find and return the students is in its sixth year. As part of Operation Comeback, district staff are operating a phone bank this week to call no-show students and their parents. Through the process, students who have moved out of the district are also identified and taken off the list.