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It may not be easy being green, but it pays. That’s the lesson learned by students and teachers at three elementary schools who won the district’s first-ever Green Shield award for adopting environmentally-friendly practices. Staff and students at Lorenzo DeZavala Elementary won first place, trophies, medals and a $500 gift card in the competition. The school’s Green Team has grown from only a few students to involve the school’s entire fifth-grade. The 50 recycling champions manage daily pickups of the school’s recycled materials. DeZavala impressed the judges with the extensive program of recycling and green activities documented on its Green…

Khalilah Johnson found her way into the classroom in just one short year with the help of the Compass: Alternative Certification Teacher Academy. The academy offers intensive training in district-identified critical need areas.  Through the academy, interns are eligible to receive a standard teaching certificate in one year and a guaranteed position in a critical need assignment within Dallas ISD. In the above video, Johnson explains the Compass process and how it helped her in the classroom. For more information on Compass, click here.

This weekend at Fair Park, many of the top Dallas restaurants will sell samples of their wares at the Taste of Dallas, a culinary showcase of flavors and foods of all types and descriptions. And among the established culinary artists and restaurateurs will be a younger group of chefs: students from two of Dallas ISD’s culinary arts programs. Wilmer-Hutchins High School’s culinary team, which competed and won Texas Restaurant Association’s Students’ Taste of Dallas at Trinity Groves in February, will serve three-ounce pork sliders at the event. Meanwhile, the School of Health Professions at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center’s…

Dallas ISD is offering free Princeton Review PSAT Prep sessions this summer. Space is limited, so district officials recommend those interested to register soon. The free prep sessions are open to all incoming Dallas ISD students in grades 9–11. There will be two two-week sessions held Tuesday–Thursday from 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The sessions will be: Session A: July 7–9 and July 14–16 Session B: July 21–23 and July 28–30 The sessions will be held at Thomas Jefferson High School, North Dallas High School, L.G. Pinkston High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School. Breakfast and lunch will be provided daily. To register, visit…

Con el año escolar y la rutina de las clases diarias casi por terminar, Dallas ISD se prepara para mantener a los estudiantes ocupados y entretenidos. Las familias tienen muchos programas para escoger para mantener a los estudiantes ocupados en el verano. No hay necesidad de que los estudiantes pasen todo el día en casa viendo televisión, jugando video juegos y olvidando lo que aprendieron en el año escolar que termina. En lugar de eso, los estudiantes pueden participar en proyectos de ciencias y explorar las profesiones de STEM; expandir sus talentos musicales o en un campamento de banda o…

Many people don’t recycle because they aren’t convinced it will make a difference. Consider this: Just one cubic yard container, the size of a recycling dumpster, can save lots of resources, including seven trees, 31 gallons of oil and 2,131 gallons of water. So the next time you’re drinking a can of soda or bottled water, be sure to recycle!

Dallas ISD anunció el día de hoy que el Dr. Robert Bravo del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles, ha recibido el nombramiento de jefe de liderazgo escolar, a partir del 15 de junio de 2015. Bravo tiene 25 años de experiencia en la educación, en California, incluyendo liderazgo a nivel administrativo y escolar. Ha trabajado en el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) desde el 2008, más recientemente como superintendente instruccional de área, teniendo bajo su responsabilidad a más de 119,000 estudiantes en 154 escuelas. Bajo su liderazgo, la tasa de graduación aumentó, más estudiantes se inscribieron en…

Teach For America (TFA), Dallas ISD, Momentous Institute, and Southern Methodist University’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development have formed a partnership to train new teachers and to expand summer learning opportunities for Dallas students through the Teach For America DFW Summer Institute, which begins this week. Through this partnership, Teach For America–Dallas-Fort Worth is bringing a pre-service training program to Dallas for the first time; new Teach For America teachers will complete their student teaching program developed by Teach For America staff in conjunction with the three partner organizations and will be housed on SMU’s campus. Through this program,…

A total of 40 fourth- and fifth-grade students at James Bowie Elementary will be featured on the national TV game show “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” in June. The show’s producers contacted the Bowie Elementary principal after the school gained recognition as one of six schools nationally, and the only school in Texas, to receive the Gold National Healthy Schools Award at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation 2014 Leaders Summit. Physical education teacher Sharon Foster, a National Healthy Schools Program ambassador, said that after the school was invited to participate on the game show, the school submitted a…

Robert E. Lee and William B. Lispcomb elementary schools are the latest Dallas Independent School District campuses to participate in the International Baccalaureate program, both entering as Primary Years Programme (PYP) schools. As PYP schools, both Lee and Lispcomb will be among approximately 1,266 schools nationwide to implement this first stage of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which assists students ages 3-12 in developing the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to excel in their studies and in their personal growth. According to the IB website, those schools will employ a rigorous curriculum focused on how students learn most effectively and…