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The greater Dallas community plays a vital role in supporting Dallas ISD. And with school starting Aug. 24, many businesses, churches, and community groups are stepping up to help ensure students have the supplies and haircuts they need. Below are some of the events scheduled for this weekend, some of which still offer free school supplies and backpacks. Please note: Most of these events require registering online. Saturday, August 15 For Oak Cliff School supplies will be given away to up to 5,000 students that live in select zip codes. Students must be registered online to receive supplies. The event will…

Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities and Belk, the retail department store, are teaming up to donate 1,600 uniforms to Dallas ISD students this Thursday at Roger Q. Mills Elementary School and Billy Earl Dade Middle School. “Education is the cornerstone to achieve what you want in life,” said Emmitt Smith, the Dallas Cowboys’ legend. “Pat and I are honored that Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities has been able to help students in the North Texas community obtain the uniforms they need while instilling the confidence and enthusiasm to attend school.” This is the second year Belk has supported the Pat and…

Dallas ISD now has an alum in the NFL Hall of Fame. Tim Brown, the retired NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner who graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday in Ohio. During his speech, Brown looked back at his career that has its origins on the playground of Mount Auburn Elementary School. “It’s been a lot of work, but it’s been incredible work,” Brown said of his football career. “I can’t wait to enjoy this (Hall of Fame honor) for the rest of my life.” In his Hall of Fame induction…

Seniors who have completed the requirements for graduation this summer will have their moment of pomp and circumstance on Thursday, Aug. 13. Commencement exercises for seniors from all district high schools are scheduled at 6 p.m. Thursday at Ellis Davis Field House, 9191 S. Polk St. Graduating seniors are encouraged to participate in the commencement rehearsal set from 10 a.m.–noon, Wednesday, Aug. 12, also at Ellis Davis Field House. Students and families can go here for rehearsal guidelines and information about appropriate attire for the ceremony. Relatives and friends of graduates who are unable to attend the ceremony in person can…

Starting Aug. 11, almost all Dallas ISD new and returning students can be enrolled in school online. By utilizing online enrollment, parents don’t have to wait in lines to fill out paper forms at the campus to enroll their child. “Additionally, online enrollment helps Dallas ISD reduce paper waste, while creating a convenient, fast, and accurate online enrollment experience at your fingertips,” the online enrollment stats. Online enrollment is not mandatory. Parents can still enroll their child using the traditional paper forms. Parents with a child who attends a Dallas ISD magnet school, school or choice, or other special enrollment…

Parents are encouraged to resolve student immunizations as early as possible to avoid the inevitable back-to-school rush in clinics, doctor’s offices and medical facilities throughout the city. Students enrolling in Dallas ISD for the first time must provide evidence of required immunizations.

 This school year, the Texas Department of State Health Service has added the following updates to the immunization requirements: Adding the Hepatitis A as a requirement for sixth graders
; Two doses of Varicella are now required for all grades
; Two doses of MMR added as a requirement for sixth graders (Students in grades 7-12 are required to have two doses of a…

New Dallas ISD teacher Samuel Cross is looking forward to teaching choir at T.W. Browne Middle School. Cross was one of approximately 1,600 new teachers that attended a New Teacher Academy orientation event at Fair Park to learn about the district. Cross said he’s pumped and ready to start the 2015 school year. “I’m excited about inspiring students to achieve their goals in life and in music,” he said. Cross said that thanks to the training he received from the Alternative Certification program, he’s confident that he’s ready to successfully re-enter the classroom. Inexperience in classroom management plagued his first teaching experience…

Dallas ISD welcomed new teachers to the district as part of a New Teacher Academy event held Aug. 6 at Fair Park. At the event, teachers new to Dallas ISD heard from district leaders and learned about initiatives such as the Teacher Excellence Initiative and Destination 2020. Watch the above video to learn more and to hear from teachers as they go into their first year with Dallas ISD.

Thousands of families took advantage of free health and dental screenings, immunizations, hair cuts and community resources at the 19th Annual Mayor’s Back to School Fair on Friday, Aug. 7, at Fair Park. Scroll through the above photos to get a look inside the event.

More than 245 Dallas ISD teachers applied for the opportunity to attend a district-funded training at the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education at Southern Methodist University. Dallas ISD paid $3,000 per teacher for teachers to attend this three week-long intensive training at SMU’s Simmons School of Education. The curriculum focused on increasing classroom effectiveness and improving classroom instructional practice. “The idea is that this is differentiated support for teachers that takes them from where they are, what they know, and what they do well, and builds on those strengths so they can see themselves growing,” Dr. David Chard, dean of the…