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The Health and Physical Education Department is looking for student-created videos, newsletters, apps, and animations that promote exercise, nutrition, disease prevention and healthy habits. Students who use these and other digital projects to educate the community about health and wellness can win prizes such as USB flash drives, wristband pedometers and digital projectors by entering their creations in Dallas ISD’s first-ever Digital Media Fair. The competition is open to students at all grade levels and all subject areas. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts. For guidelines and directions about how to enter projects, visit http://tiny.cc/mvp2015. The fair’s winning…

May 4-8 is National Teacher Appreciation Week! The National PTA in 1984 designated the first week of May as a special time to honor those who lend their passion and skills to educating children. Like their counterparts across the nation, Dallas ISD teachers play an essential role in student success. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we invite the community to join us in recognizing the dedicated educators who wholeheartedly commit themselves to providing an exceptional educational experience for all children. Each day this week, we will recognize three of the hundreds of exemplary educators in the five divisions of the district. As…

Check out a short video of Mariachi Pegaso, a new student music group at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The group was started in 2014, thanks in part students who had attended W.E. Greiner Middle School and participated in its award-winning Mariachi program.

With more than 70 percent of Dallas ISD students being of Hispanic descent, the Cinco de Mayo holiday is one of importance. On May 5, 1862, the Mexican army defeated the French in what came to be known as Cinco de Mayo. This holiday commemorates a Mexican Army victory at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-American War (1861-1867). It has become a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage for Mexican-American people. One school in particular at Dallas ISD, San Jacinto Elementary, celebrated the day with a community festival. On May 1, the aroma in the hallway at San Jacinto Elementary…

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts’ diverse group, Mariachi Pegaso, serenaded teachers during the Teacher Appreciation Week luncheon and for Cinco de Mayo. The group will attend their first Mariachi competition this week. Booker T. Washington is known for everything from arts to dance to music and bands, but surprisingly not for a Mariachi band. The school only recently established a Mariachi program in 2014, thanks in part to enthusiastic students and the Mariachi program at W.E. Greiner Middle School. A couple of Greiner alumni and ex-Mariachi program students decided to begin an after-school program…

Las solicitudes están siendo aceptadas para los estudiantes interesados en asistir a una de las dos nuevas escuelas públicas de opción del distrito que comenzarán el próximo año escolar. Los estudiantes pueden solicitar asistir a D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle School o a Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA) High School. El periodo de solicitud está abierto del 24 de abril al 15 de mayo. Estos dos centros son parte de la estrategia del distrito de ofrecer escuelas públicas de opción. La meta del distrito es abrir un total de 35 nuevas escuelas de opción para el año 2020. Las dos…

The D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle School, opening in Fall 2015, will add a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics to its traditional curriculum. Listen as Principal Jonica Lockwood explains how the new Choice School will emphasize techology-based 21st-century learning. Initially, the school will open with up to 150 sixth-graders. Applicants who live within 3.5 miles of the campus, located at 9339 S. Polk St., will be given priority. There are no academic requirements to attend. Find information and apply at www.dallasisd.org/applychoice.

May 4-8 is National Teacher Appreciation Week! The National PTA in 1984 designated the first week of May as a special time to honor those who lend their passion and skills to educating children. Like their counterparts across the nation, Dallas ISD teachers play an essential role in student success. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we invite the community to join us in recognizing the dedicated educators who wholeheartedly commit themselves to providing an exceptional educational experience for all children. Each day this week, we will recognize three of the hundreds of exemplary educators in the five divisions of the district. As…

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week happening May 4–8, Dallas ISD educators can enjoy free bottomless coffee, discounts on shoes, and a free month-long fitness boot camp. Designer Shoe Warehouse is offering 20 percent off regular priced items and 10 percent off clearance items for Dallas ISD teachers. The offer is going on today, May 5, from 4–9 p.m. DSW is located at Prestonwood Town Center, 5301 Belt Line Road, and DSW Preston Center Pavilion, 8335 Westchester Drive. Camp Gladiator, an outdoor fitness company, is offering teachers a free four-week adult fitness boot camp. The boot camp “promises a motivating…

By definition, superheroes are those with the power and stamina to go far above and beyond the feats of normal humans to help make life better for mere mortals. Move over Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Wonder Woman, it’s time to make room for the real superheroes—the men and women of Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services Department. They possess the extraordinary talent to persuade students to eat veggies, the power to counter students’ preference for fat-filled fast food, and the know-how to make nutritious foods kids actually like. Many of these heroes and heroines got into full character…