Author: The Hub

En un salón de 30 niños con autismo, Theresa Shattuck, supervisora del programa de autismo de Dallas ISD, se apresuraría a señalar que el salón tiene a 30 individuos únicos, con personalidades y talentos particulares. Abril es el mes nacional para crear conciencia sobre el autismo, y Shattuck dijo que la temática está pasando de tratar de comprender las investigaciones y la información básica sobre el autismo, a aumentar el entendimiento de las habilidades que las personas con autismo aportan a la comunidad. “Uno no puede encasillar a las personas con autismo,” dijo. “Cada persona tiene tanto qué ofrecer, sin…

On Monday, teachers and staff at Central Elementary School prepared hand-written letters and a fun STAAR video for their third- through fifth- grade students. Their goal was to let the students know that they are proud of them and their growth over the past school year. You can view the STAAR video featuring the staff and teachers above.

Fernanda smiled widely as she got her hands on the big, white stuffed teddy bear on Monday, a little something to take the edge off of moving into a new country and entering the second grade at an unfamiliar school. The teddy bears were part of a donation delivered to the Margaret and Gilbert Herrera Student Intake Center this week by World Vision-North Texas. The organization delivered three pallets stacked with boxes of shoes sized for children of all ages and personal kits that include a blanket, hygiene items, school supplies and books. Since August, the intake center has welcomed about…

The Society of Women Engineers recently held an event to grow young women’s interest in engineering careers. Design Your World, which happened March 28 at Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Middle School, gave young women the opportunity to do hands-on experiments with engineers from across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Only 5 percent of women who enter college end up graduating with engineering degrees, and events such as Design Your World aim to increase that percentage. “The best way to get young women interested in engineering is to talk to them about it and allow them to see role models (who are engineers),” said Dr. Meagan…

Over the weekend, generations of students who attended W.T. White gathered together to celebrate the school’s 50-year anniversary. The Dallas Morning News was at the event and wrote a great story about what happened. Click here to read the full story. Photo courtesy Dallas Morning News.

Alexis Bocanegra volunteers on a daily basis at William Lipscomb Elementary where her son attends kindergarten. Bocanegra helps his teacher and assists with school events and Parent-Teacher Association meetings. Bocanegra says she volunteers because she has fun doing it.

The Dallas Morning News published an editorial in support of the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) plan, which incentivizes high-performing teachers to voluntarily transfer and work at one of six struggling schools in the district. Click here to read the full editorial.

Earlier this month, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban visited Medrano Middle School to talk to more than 100 business students. Mauricio Vazquez, a student at Medrano, followed up with Cuban and asked him a few questions as part of a Q&A for the school paper. Cuban said the interview, which featured such questions as “what word do you say too much” and “who was the last person that called or texted you,” featured the “best interview questions in a long, long time.” Click here to read more from Cuban about the interview.

Culinary students from across Dallas ISD participated in a healthy foods cook-off hosted by the Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute on April 9 at the Latino Cultural Center. The event promoted healthy ways of preparing food and featured high school students, college students and chefs at the professional level. One Dallas ISD high school that participated was Wilmer-Hutchins High School. The students at Wilmer-Hutchins are part of a culinary program that teaches students how to prepare for their future after they graduate by teaching them how to be chefs. The three Wilmer-Hutchins students that are competing made creative cupcakes using…

Rachel Harrah, a theatre art teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, at first thought the Distinguished Teacher Review Process would prove daunting. “I thought it was going to be a mountain I’d have to climb up by myself,” she said. However, now that she has gone through the DTR process, she said that support from other DTR-eligible teachers made the process “a collaborative community instead of one person out to prove themself.” “More importantly, it also showed that Dallas has the best teachers,” she said. “We have the teachers that are making a difference.” The Hub spoke with Harrah last…