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The Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program gives Dallas ISD high school juniors and seniors real world experience in a professional field. The Hub is spotlighting some of these Dallas ISD students participating in the program. Today, meet Devany Morales, a student at Hillcrest High School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Career Education and Workforce Partnerships. What is your role as an intern? My role as an intern is basically to help out others and learn new things as I go. My role has ranged from creating field trip forms and calendars to simply cleaning out cabinets. What do you hope to accomplish through…

WFAA ran a great story on the Solar Preparatory School for Girls, a single-gender choice school opening this year. The school will be a socioeconomic and racially-diverse school campus, said Mike Koprowski, chief of transformation and innovation. Led by Principal Nancy Bernardino, the campus will open in August to nearly 200 female scholars in grades K-2 and will add one grade level, each year through eighth-grade. Go here for the full story.

The Dallas Independent School District has appointed Scott Layne as the district’s new chief operations officer. Layne, who will join Dallas ISD in mid-August, brings 34 years of public education experience to Dallas ISD, most of it served as assistant superintendent for School Support Services for the Irving Independent School District, where he managed more than 700 employees. His responsibilities included maintenance, grounds, custodial, energy management, warehouse, transportation, safety and security, construction, food service, technology services, risk management, fixed assets/surplus, records management, health services, and athletics. During Layne’s 25-year tenure with Irving ISD, he also managed the district’s 1997, 2001…

Two student groups from Lakewood Elementary School set up lemonade stands last week to raise money for the families of the police officers killed in the July 7 shooting. The students, with help from a Woodrow Wilson High School student volunteer and two Lakewood Elementary teachers, raised $235 through the lemonade stands.

A summer meal milestone, workshops that help teachers become even more effective, and lessons in “speedometry” are just some of the big news items in this edition of This Week in Dallas ISD. Watch the above video—or read below—to learn more. Professional learning workshop About 1,000 teachers attended a professional development workshop personalized to them to help them become even more effective at working with students. (Watch this) Summer meal milestone Staff, students, volunteers and partners celebrated the 100,000th free meal served by the Dallas ISD Summer Food Program at the Youth World Learning Center. (Read this) Valuable partnership For the…

For four weeks this summer at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School and Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, nearly 10,000 Dallas ISD teachers took part in personalized professional learning and development. According to Executive Director of Professional Development Angie Gaylord, teachers selected from an innovative menu of educational sessions, giving them the ability to select topics that not only interest them but also reflect the feedback received in their TEI evaluation. “We want them to be motivated and excited so they can go back and do great things with their kids on campus,” Gaylord said. The teachers responded positively to the…

About 40 interns from Protiviti, a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For award-winner, spent a recent afternoon painting walls at George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School. Protiviti has plans to return to support the campus in reading activities this school year.

The Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program gives Dallas ISD high school juniors and seniors real world experience in a professional field. The Hub is spotlighting some of these Dallas ISD students participating in the program. Today, meet Taylor Griffin, a student at Skyline High School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Summer Learning and Extended Day Service Department. What is your role as an intern? To provide a helping hand to the summer learning and extended day services program. What do you hope to accomplish through the internship? I want to know more about the business environment and whether it’s for…

For the second consecutive year, Dallas Independent School District partnered with the Annette Caldwell Simmons School at Southern Methodist University (SMU) to provide targeted professional development academies and courses for district teachers. The academies were tiered to support specific teacher needs based on each teacher’s most recent Teacher Excellence Initiative evaluation. The partnership’s goal is to improve district teachers’ classroom instruction. Led by SMU professors, the academies and courses were designed to strengthen teachers’ understanding of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and incorporated effective use of lesson objectives, demonstrations of learning, purposeful and aligned instruction, and the use of…

Some Dallas ISD teachers will roll into class next fall with a new method to teach science: Speedometry. A curriculum developed by Hot Wheels and the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education uses the small toy cars to teach concepts such as velocity and how weight and aerodynamics affect how far and how fast an object can travel. On Monday, teachers from the district’s Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) schools and from the Intensive Support Network received training on how to teach with Speedometry. They learned about the curriculum and also built ramps – some with looping sections of track –…