Dallas ISD Police Officer Kimberly Stangarone taught herself sign language so that she could better communicate with deaf students at J.L. Long Middle School. WFAA-Channel 8 followed Stangarone on the campus, where she has worked for the past three years. Click here to read the full story and watch the video.
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For School of Science and Engineering alum Larry Tyler (2003), lessons learned at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center magnet helped him carve out a career in the mortgage industry. Today, despite his many career milestones, it’s the little people in his life who are his biggest accomplishment by far. AlumNow, a Hub feature that checks in with district alumni to see where they are now, recently caught up with Tyler for an update and for some sound advice for students. What are you doing now? I’m Vice President of Servicing for Nationstar Mortgage. My departments help customers keep their accounts in good standing,…
On a trip this summer, Scot Pankey found his New York groove by asking people to dance with him. The resulting video shows him dancing with strangers to the Bee Gee’s “You Should Be Dancing.” Pankey, a teacher at Dallas ISD’s A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School, became an Internet sensation in January along with his students when a video they created at the school went viral. In it, Pankey danced with students to “Uptown Funk.” One particular upload of the video has surpassed 13 million views on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUEg7kd6Cg
Two Dallas Independent School District campuses are among the nation’s 500 best high school schools for college readiness, according to Newsweek. The School for the Talented and Gifted was ranked No. 36, while the School of Science and Engineering was listed as No. 229. Both campuses, housed at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, earned high marks for the percentage of students that demonstrate college readiness, as well as graduation rate and the percentage of students that are college bound. According to the magazine, Newsweek “evaluates schools on a broad range of criteria in order to identify schools that excel…
The Dallas ISD Athletics Department this school year is utilizing technology more than ever to connect fans to district sporting events. Are you looking for a schedule of your school’s football or volleyball games? How about help locating a field house or stadium? Did you miss a game and really want to know the score? This information, and much more, is now all available online. The district this year is using RankOneSport, a team management and scheduling system that lets fans find athletic competitions, access maps to sports venues, and sign up to receive alerts and postgame scores. Athletics is also doing more to communicate…
At 3:30 a.m. on the morning of the first day of school, Ben Dickerson, principal of Edward H. Cary Middle School, filmed some of his, um, enthusiastic dance moves all over the school. Dickerson made the video as his way to wish every teacher’s room good luck. Really, the above video needs no further explanation.
The N.W. Harllee School first began serving the Dallas community in 1928. As a cost saving measure in 2012, the school closed for what seemed to be the final time. But this year, the N.W. Harllee Early Childhood Center opened on the first day of school to classes full of three- and four-year-olds, and loads of community support. Since its opening 87 years ago, the school has educated students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Many of those former students still live in the South Dallas community where Harllee is located, as new Principal Onjaleke Brown soon discovered. During a…
Walking the halls of W.H. Adamson High School with Community Liaison Maria Garcia, it’s unusual to encounter anyone who doesn’t know her even in the early days of a new school year. A mainstay at the Oak Cliff campus for 18 years, Garcia is still excited about her job connecting the school with parents and community resources. Since 1993 when she transitioned from an Adamson parent and PTA officer to a paid staff member, Garcia has touched the lives of thousands of families. You might say she’s a legend. Recently, she was officially presented that title by Ford Motor Company,…
On a weekday morning in a cold district warehouse, Dora Rivas makes a walkthrough inspection for the last time. After serving a decade as Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services executive director, winning numerous achievement awards, and propelling the district to its healthiest standards, Rivas is packing up her lunchbox and moving on. For the last 10 years, Rivas has worked hard to implement changes that would impact Dallas ISD students even beyond their school years. Under her leadership, the district moved to completely free breakfast and lunch for all students and rolled out the Breakfast in the Classroom initiative in…
Dallas ISD high school football kicks off this week with competitive games all over the city. For those interested in following the action, here are the schedules for this year’s football games: Click here for the varsity football schedule; Click here for the junior varsity football schedule; Click here for the ninth-grade football schedule. Games are subject to change, and any such changes will be posted to the Dallas ISD Athletics page calendar.