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Celebrating National School Nurse Day
0Nurse Emily Geeslin, or “Nurse G” as her students call her, is passionate about bringing health promotion and disease prevention to North Dallas High School. Not only has she successfully pushed vaccination events, screened students for vision and hearing problems and provided emergency care to students in need, but she has also fostered community relationships that are transforming lives every day. For all those reasons and more, Principal Katherine Wanserski Eska jumped at the opportunity to nominate Geeslin as the 2021-2022 Health Services Employee of the Year, a title Geeslin earned just in time to celebrate National School Nurse Day…
Starting teacher salary of $60,000 and hiring incentives included in proposed 2022-2023 budget
0Dallas ISD’s proposed 2022-2023 budget includes an increase in the starting salaries for teachers who are new to the district in addition to thousands of dollars in hiring incentives. If the budget is approved, novice teachers who are new to the district would earn a starting salary of $60,000. The increase in base salary for new teachers combined with the $2,000 hiring incentive—available for both experienced and novice teachers —will help Dallas ISD be more competitive and overcome a national and state teacher shortage that has been made worse by the pandemic. The hiring incentive applies to all certification areas…
Join Us to Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
0May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and Dallas ISD is proud to celebrate all students, staff, families, and community members who identify as a part of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French…
Three Dallas ISD schools named the best high schools in Texas and among the best in the nation
0Three Dallas ISD schools earned top spots on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best High Schools state and national rankings. Dallas ISD’s School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center (TAG) has been named the best high school in Texas, with Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School coming in second place, and the School of Science and Engineering (SEM) at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center in third. The three schools also secured top honors among the national rankings, coming in at No. 11, No. 20 and No. 22, respectively. Additionally, both SEM and TAG also…