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Dallas ISD P-TECH industry partner Accenture Dallas grows internship program to prepare students for the 21st-century job marketplace
0As an industry partner with the Dallas ISD P-TECH initiative since 2016, Accenture Dallas has provided Seagoville High School P-TECH students with real world opportunities such as mentoring, resume writing sessions, mock interviews and back-to-school readiness kits. In 2018, Accenture Dallas offered one P-TECH student and seven other district high school students a valuable summer internship. Deanna Naugles, the local market lead for Accenture Dallas who leads the company’s corporate citizenship engagement in the DFW community, was so impressed by the interns that she helped grow the program to this summer’s total of 28 Dallas ISD P-TECH interns. “My absolute…
Dallas ISD elementary school educator is named the Texas Teacher of the Year
0David G. Burnet Elementary School teacher Eric Hale is the 2021 Texas Teacher of the Year! The announcement was made Sept. 30 during the virtual Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards Convention. He was one of six finalists across the state and will now represent Texas in the National Teacher of the Year program in the spring. Hale is the first Black male to be named Texas Teacher of the Year. Watch Eric Hale as he learns he is the Texas Teacher of the Year Each finalist was interviewed Sept.12 by a panel of judges…
New hiring initiative aims to increase presence of Black male educators in Dallas ISD
0As part of an initiative aimed at recruiting teachers who represent the students they serve, Dallas ISD has hired 12 Black male professionals and put them on the path toward becoming licensed teachers who will lead classrooms next semester. The Adjunct Teacher Dallas Residency Program is designed to recruit Black male teachers to serve in high-priority campuses. Black men interested in potentially applying to the program are encouraged to email their resume to futureteacher@dallasisd.org. “Evidence shows that Black students who have at least one Black educator in elementary school are more likely to graduate from high school, college and be…
Dallas ISD grad returns to invest in students at the North Dallas Career Institute
0Jonathan Lopez last year made a big switch from working in commercial refrigeration to teaching Dual Language Principles of Construction and HVAC 1 at the Dallas ISD North Dallas Career Institute. After graduating from Townview School of Business in 2014, Lopez attended a trade school and got his degree in air conditioning and then started his career in the field working in commercial refrigeration and residential HVAC. While Lopez loved the day-to-day variety of his commercial refrigeration job, he saw the opportunity to teach at a career institute as a no-brainer. “I wanted to give back to the community and…