Two Dallas ISD girls basketball teams have punched their tickets to the first-ever state tournament in San Antonio this year. Skyline’s Lady Raiders and Bryan Adams’ Lady Cougars are slated to be among the teams competing in the Texas UIL Girls’ State Basketball Tournament on March 7. 6A Action Skyline’s Lady Raiders powered past Spring DeKaney 45-42 this past weekend. Senior Dai’ja Thomas, an SMU signee, led the team with 14 points. The team’s state tournament berth is the first for head coach Cassandra McCurdy, who has worked toward this milestone for the past 28 years at Skyline. The Lady Raiders…
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On Friday, North American Spine donated 50 free yoga mats to Pre-K students at Robert E. Lee Elementary School. North American Spine also helped put on free yoga classes for the students. CW 33 covered the event and captured great footage of the little yogis in action. Click here to view the video.
Staff and students at Dallas ISD’s Benjamin Franklin Middle School took to the school’s auditorium stage to celebrate African-American History Month on Thursday, Feb. 26. The program began with an interpretive pantomime performance of the African-American experience by drama students, from living in Africa, to being used as slaves, to the civil rights movement in the 1960s and ultimately the swearing-in of President Barack Obama. Students’ faces were covered so that their movements were the sole method of telling the story. A performance by the girls choir rounded out student participation. Clarice Tinsley, news anchor at KDFW-FOX 4, encouraged students…
A news story from CBS DFW details a proposed bridge plan that would help meet the most pressing needs at nine Dallas ISD campuses. The story, which you can read here, describes the bridge plan as “an opportunity on the horizon” to finance $137 million in necessary improvement at the district schools. If approved by the Board of Trustees, improvements at the facilities could begin this Spring.
The Dallas Morning News editorial board had high praise for Irma De La Guardia, a third-grade dual-language teacher at Harry C. Withers Elementary School who was named the 2015 Teacher of the Year by the National Association for Bilingual Education. The editorial, which you can read here, details De La Guardia’s background and the importance of a bilingual education. The Hub will feature De La Guardia and her important work in a video next week.
A report from the Texas Education Agency finds that Dallas ISD is now in compliance with state fingerprinting and background check laws. The report, issued Feb. 25, states that Dallas ISD successfully addressed issues of concern raised last fall. The report also recommends that TEA continue to work with Dallas ISD by providing a monitor to ensure the district remains in full compliance with fingerprinting and background check laws. “While the district has taken significant strides to come into compliance with state fingerprinting laws, this is an area that needs constant vigilance,” Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles said. “The safety of…
Citing the benefits to both students and the business community, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings urged local business leaders to help expand a program that provides paid internships to high school students. Since its inception in 2008, the Mayor’s Intern Fellows program has provided summer internships to 1,048 students in such fields as healthcare, law, engineering, and the non-profit sector. While the program, which is open to high school students who attend Dallas ISD and public charter schools, provided 300 internships last summer, Rawlings set a goal of 400 student internships for the upcoming summer. “Businesses ask me all the time,…
When leaders, community members and students gather March 6 at 10 a.m. for the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jose “Joe” May Elementary School, they will mark the construction on the final new school in Dallas ISD’s 2008 Bond Program. Scheduled to open in August 2016, the 99,811-square-foot facility will have the capacity to serve 821 students in grades Pre-K through five. May Elementary School, which will be at 9818 Brockbank Dr. in the Bachman Lake area of northwest Dallas, will feature 33 classrooms, two computer labs, a library, performing arts classrooms, gymnasium, and four classrooms dedicated to a Head Start…
Estudiantes de temas como el ADN, derechos de animales e inmigración, se reúnen en la biblioteca de la escuela Anne Frank. Estos estudiantes comparten sus conocimientos en temas como el daño causado por la crueldad contra los animales y la importancia del sistema nervioso central. Y en este caso, los estudiantes son alumnos de Anne Frank Elementary que se especializaron en los temas durante la Feria anual de Investigaciones para Talentosos y Superdotados. “Siempre me impresiona lo que los estudiantes aprenden y concluyen,” dijo Jeni Baldwin, maestra de alumnos talentosos y superdotados de Anne Frank Elementary. La feria de investigaciones…