Author: The Hub

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme at Harry Stone Montessori Academy is student-centered and teachers students to make connections from what their learning in the classroom and the real world. They learn to reflect and work better. The IB program also encourages students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, even with their differences, can also be right.

With the Nov. 3 election less than a month away, The Hub is breaking down how proceeds from the proposed $1.6 billion bond, which is not expected to raise tax rates, could impact each of Dallas ISD’s nine trustee districts. Please note: All bond projects, project amounts, and program allocations are estimates, and could change in the future. This is a guide to District 3. Click here for an interactive map detailing the proposed bond projects for District 3. New elementary school Proceeds from the proposed bond package are anticipated to create a new elementary school in District 3 to replace Stone Elementary…

With the Nov. 3 election less than a month away, The Hub is breaking down how proceeds from the proposed $1.6 billion bond, which is not expected to raise tax rates, could impact each of Dallas ISD’s nine trustee districts. Please note: All bond projects, project amounts, and program allocations are estimates, and could change in the future. This is a guide to District 2. Click here for an interactive map detailing the proposed bond projects for District 2. New classrooms Proceeds from the proposed bond are anticipated to create 80 new classrooms in District 2 at the following schools: Woodrow…

With the Nov. 3 election less than a month away, The Hub is breaking down how proceeds from the proposed $1.6 billion bond, which is not expected to raise tax rates, could impact each of Dallas ISD’s nine trustee districts. Please note: All bond projects, project amounts, and program allocations are estimates that remain subject to district discretion. This is a guide to District 1. Click here for an interactive map detailing the proposed bond projects for District 1. New pre-K–8 school Proceeds from the proposed bond are anticipated to create a new elementary in the Far North Dallas area. The school’s exact…

On Sept. 26, at George H.W. Bush Elementary, Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities and DECA Dental Group kicked off a new partnership to provide underserved children in Dallas with free dental care. More than 300 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade Bush students received a free dental screening in the school gym, which the group converted to a “dental lab” for the event. Dentists conducted the screenings, and the students can receive ongoing dental treatments at three DECA Dental locations over the next six months, free of charge. NBC DFW went the dental screening, and click here to view the news station’s full report.

In its annual Best of Dallas issue, the Dallas Observer named Mata Elementary as the Best Dallas ISD Innovation. The article, which you can read in full here, states: “Teachers and administrators there are passionate, energetic and wholly committed to students’ success. A-plus.”

Dallas ISD provides an annual $200 stipend to district teachers and staff in their September paychecks to help them purchase supplies and materials for the school year. In total, 10,767 employees received $2,153,400 in September. The Hub asked Maria, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, to interview teachers at Robert E. Lee Elementary School about how they planned to use their stipend. Watch the above video to see what the teachers said.

At a high-energy pep rally on Friday that was equal parts rock concert and lesson on healthy living, the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) launched its statewide Farm Fresh Fridays initiative in front of 500 students at Margaret B. Henderson Elementary School. The TDA is offering the “Jump With Jill” show at no cost to select Texas schools in Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Henderson students learned a few things about respecting their bodies through healthy choices, eating breakfast, enjoying fruit (“Nature’s Candy”), snacking on the superpowers of vegetables, exercising and drinking plenty of water. After the hour-long program,…

Dallas ISD is a hotbed of history, from the people who’ve passed through district classrooms, to the students who’ve graduated, to the very buildings standing in the district’s 324 mile radius. Within that radius is Sunset High School, named for the neighborhood in which it was built, the Sunset Hills Addition of Oak Cliff. The school was built in 1925 when Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States, Ford produced its first truck, F.Scott Fitzgerald released “The Great Gatsby,” and the average family household income in the U.S. was, give or take, $5,200, according to a recent edition of…

Dallas ISD interim Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told members of the Board of Trustees that approximately 71 percent of teachers returning to a Teacher Excellence Initiative-eligible role will see a salary increase next month. Hinojosa made his presentation at the Trustee’s regular business meeting on Sept. 24 at the district administration building. He noted the average pay raise for returning teachers this year under the Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) will be $2,700, which is about a 4.5 percent raise on average. More than 35 percent of returning teachers will receive a raise of $4,000–$5,000. Hinojosa’s presentation to trustees came after teachers received…