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Cheryl Nevels: 25 years advocating for Dallas children
0A deep desire to advocate for children, a family legacy in education, and a lifetime of support in the classroom and at home are a few attributes which led Cheryl Nevels to join Dallas ISD almost 25 years ago. Cheryl started her distinguished career as a teacher within a struggling community, where she received recognition for consistently prioritizing her students. Throughout the positions she has held, the driving force that keeps her going is the students, many of whom experienced similar challenges as the ones she once faced growing up. After stepping into her first classroom at Ronald Erwin McNair…
See the Dallas ISD 2021–2022 school year calendars
0There are three different Dallas ISD 2021-2022 school year calendars. The majority of campuses will have a base calendar, where school starts Aug. 16 and ends May 27. See the base calendar here. Forty-one schools will have an intersession calendar, where school starts Aug. 9 and ends June 23. This creates time for five additional intersession weeks spread throughout the year. Not all students will be asked to attend the extra intersession weeks. Click here to see the list of schools adopting the intersession calendar, and click here to see the intersession calendar. Five schools–Maple Lawn Elementary, H.I. Holland Elementary…
Pre-K Registration Coming Near YOU!
0Dallas ISD is now registering pre-k students for the 2021-2022 school year. To help families with face-to-face support completing the online registration, drive-thru enrollment events will take place every Saturday during May, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in several schools throughout the district. To enroll in pre-k a child must be 3-or 4-years old by September 1. All new and returning students enrolling to pre-k during these events will receive a free backpack and school supplies. Families will stay in their cars as while driving through the enrollment lanes and receive help to complete the online registration, in English…
It’s Volunteer Appreciation Week (and Dallas ISD has much to appreciate)
0This volunteer appreciation week is the perfect time for Dallas ISD to say thank you to individuals and organizations of all stripes—agencies, businesses, public, private and higher education, faith-based, PTAs and parent organizations—who have stepped up to aid us in a year like no other. Thanks to your generosity, the district’s 150,000 students have received support ranging from uniforms and unique learning experiences to sports and higher education opportunities. Although the COVID-19 pandemic placed severe limits on volunteer involvement over the past year—resulting in scaled-back activities and drastic drops of in-person support, many of our volunteers and partners persisted in…