Dallas ISD is home to some of the nation’s top magnet schools. Students interested in attending one of these schools for the 2017-2018 school year can submit applications through January 31. There are programs for every age level covering a variety of interests. The magnet program includes vanguards and Montessori for elementary students, academies for middle school students and magnets for high school students. For a complete list of schools and programs, visit the magnet school website. The requirements to attend magnet programs vary by school. Applications can be found online. The deadline to apply is January 31.
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Los estudiantes de Terry Stotts en el Multiple Careers Magnet Center del Dallas ISD dejan su clase con mucho más que las destrezas de carpintería. “Es más que una materia”, dijo Stotts. “es una diversión. No puedes aprender si no te estás divirtiendo”. Con más de 30 años de experiencia como maestro – los últimos 12 años en Multiple Careers – es obvio que practica lo que enseña en sus clases de Tecnología de construcción. Antes de la navidad, ell martes, 13 de diciembre, Stotts y sus estudiantes entregaron al Ronald McDonald House en Dallas caballos mecedores de madera en…
Schools all across Dallas ISD got into the holiday spirit this week thanks to generous donations from community partners. From a music legend donating coats to homeless students to “Santa’s Elves” beautifying a school, it was a week packed with heartwarming news. Watch this video, or read below, to catch up on everything that happened. ACE surprise More than 300 teachers and staff at the seven Dallas ISD ACE schools were surprised with $400 gift cards to Target. (Learn more) College field trip Fifth-graders from Preston Hollow Elementary got a close-up look at college thanks to a field trip to…
More than 300 teachers and staff at the seven Dallas ISD ACE schools were surprised with $400 Target gift cards at assemblies at each campus on Wednesday. An anonymous donor provided the gifts to the staff in recognition of their efforts and success at improving extraordinary student educational outcomes. The seven campuses are part of the district’s Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program, an effort to incentivize the top teachers and principals to relocate and work at some of the districts lowest-performing schools. Six of the seven campuses were removed from the state’s ‘Improvement Required’ list after the first school year the…
A handful of students at Dallas ISD’s John W. Carpenter Elementary School got a firsthand look of the school’s rejuvenated library on Thursday, Dec. 15, thanks to Behr and the Heart of America Foundation. The paint company and nonprofit organization teamed up to conduct six projects across the country to support literacy in 2016. The library now features brightly colored walls, inspirational signs and famous quotes and also new beanbags to help boost a love of reading, along with newly donated books. The school’s computer lab also got some sprucing up. A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the project.
El Dallas ISD está comprometido a garantizar el triunfo académico en el salón para todos los estudiantes. Una de las maneras que el distrito logra esta meta es identificando que bien están rindiendo las escuelas y proporcionando apoyo adecuado. Igual como las boletas de calificaciones miden el rendimiento individual de los estudiantes, un Sistema de evaluación de las escuelas (SPF, por sus siglas en inglés) proporcionará información sobre cómo una escuela mantiene el desarrollo y aprovechamiento estudiantil. Empezando en el otoño del 2017, el Dallas ISD publicará un SPF para cada plantel. Dará una amplia representación del progreso del plantel…
Ruel Hamilton, CEO and founder of AmeriSouth Realty, has donated more than $100,000 to support campuses in the Roosevelt High School feeder pattern. The donation will help upgrade technology at the schools. On Tuesday, Dec. 13, Roosevelt High School hosted an event to demonstrate some of the new technology and to thank Hamilton for his generous donation. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and Trustee Lew Blackburn were among those in attendance. Students also talked about the learning opportunities the new technology would bring. “This new technology is going to greatly enhance the instructional programming here at Roosevelt High School,” Roosevelt Principal Brian De Veaux…
The Dallas Independent School District is one of 433 school districts in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the 7th Annual AP® District Honor Roll. To be included on the 7th Annual Honor Roll, Dallas ISD had to, since 2014, increase the number of students participating in AP while also increasing or maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher. Reaching these goals shows that Dallas ISD is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are ready for AP. “Thanks to the support of the community, private donors,…
Every student at Lida Hooe Elementary got two free books to take home for good thanks to Mike Thrasher of Books Are the Beginning. Books Are the Beginning will this year will give a total of six books to students at Hooe, Stevens Park, and James Hogg elementary schools to take home as their own. The goal is to help the students start growing their own home library, Thrasher said. “Children need books at home to enhance their reading skills,” Thrasher said. Learn more in the above video.
Dallas ISD Trustee Joyce Foreman joined 34 other school board members from across Texas Nov. 17-19 at the second session of the Leadership TASB class of 2017. Selected by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), the group is participating in a yearlong education leadership study program. These trustees represent school districts of all sizes, with student populations of 1,000 to 159,000, and reflect a similar range of property wealth. Participants who complete all required elements of the study will graduate next year by earning Master Trustee status. This is the highest designation recognized by TASB. Meeting in San Antonio, the…