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In a superintendent roundtable hosted by KERA, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa talks with Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner and Grand Prairie ISD Superintendent Susan Hall. The education leaders talk about a variety of subjects, including the difference between top-performing and low-performing schools, the power of choice schools and traditional schools, and how to prepare students for a successful future. Click here to listen to the roundtable.

Dallas ISD teachers have access to more personalized lesson planning resources. Over the last year, the Teaching and Learning Division launched a digitally based professional development platform known as D-Tubes, Dallas ISD’s own video resource library. These videos provide teachers background and content knowledge on specific Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards to assist with their lesson plans. Assistant Superintendent Vicente R. Reyes says the content departments identified some key concepts for instructional specialists to highlight in the first round of videos. “Moving forward, we’re going to start using our Distinguished teachers and highlighting their work and what they’re doing to teach hard to teach standards,” Reyes said.…

Dallas ISD varsity football teams from across the district had playoff games last Thursday and Friday. Here are the scores, with the Dallas ISD teams in bold: Skyline vs. Lake Highlands: 21-10 Alvarado vs. Wilmer Hutchins: 33-12 Kennedale vs. Carter: 65-26 Anna vs. Madison: 50-16 Forney vs. Bryan Adams: 77-44 Terrell vs. Woodrow Wilson: 49-14 South Oak Cliff vs. Mansfield Timberview: 17-14 Mansfield Summit vs. Kimball: 35-7 Lancaster vs. Seagoville: 50-3 Mansfield Lake Ridge vs. Samuell: 63-12 In the next round of playoffs, Skyline will play Rowlett on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Mesquite Memorial Stadium, and South Oak Cliff…

Great things are happening in Dallas ISD schools every day. Show and Tell is a feature on The Hub that rounds up some of the news happening across the district into one place. If you have any story ideas for Show and Tell, email thehub@dallasisd.org. Parents help out at Bethune Elementary Bethune parents assisted pre-K teachers with creating various themed classroom environments for their students. Pictured are a washer and dryer made from cardboard boxes and laundry baskets. (From the Molina feeder pattern newsletter) W.T. White alumnus earns national AP Scholar distinction W.T. White 2015 valedictorian Daniel Stehling has been named a National AP…

WFAA 8 profiled the changes happening at Zumwalt Middle School as part of the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) initiative, which aims to boost student achievement by staffing identified schools with high-performing principals and teachers. The WFAA report talks with the high-performing teachers about the challenges and victories they have seen so far at the school. Click here to view the full story.

The wind blowing through downtown Dallas on Wednesday, Nov. 11, didn’t slow down the hundreds of students participating in the 2015 Dallas Veterans Day Parade. This year’s theme was “Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II.” Seven World War II veterans were selected to serve as Grand Marshals. High schools from across the district were represented with JROTC units, marching bands, drill teams and cheerleading squads. See additional photos of the parade here.

The small circular table appears like an island in a sea of books and literary materials in the library at Sarah Zumwalt Middle School. Its purpose is simple: to honor those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. As part of Veterans Day, librarian Amy Tucker dressed the table formally amidst the other unadorned study tables in the library. Each aspect of the table, traditionally dubbed “America’s White Table” or “The Missing Man’s Table” in similar celebrations across the nation, represents a specific purpose. “It represents a seat at the table for the soldiers who have fallen, POWs or…

Officials from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Ford Motor Company, City of Dallas and Dallas ISD helped celebrate Tim Brown Day on Friday, Nov. 6, with three events throughout the day. Brown won the Heisman Trophy while playing football at Notre Dame University, and went on to have a distinguished career for the Los Angeles Raiders in the NFL. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame earlier this fall. Get an inside look at Tim Brown Day in the above video.

Community Partners from the Dallas Fire Department (Asst. Chief Fernando Gray), The Senior Source and the 5th District Court came and read to Pre-K, Kinder and first-grade classes at Cesar Chavez Learning Center. Look below to enjoy photos from the event.

A special program created by a 17-year-old student has dozens of Dallas ISD students learning how to make their own video games. NBC DFW has the story here.