More than 150 Dallas ISD schools will offer students free breakfast and/or lunch over the summer. The Summer Food Service Program kicked off June 3 and brings free meals to children and youth 18 years and younger at participating sites throughout Dallas. All families have to do is find a site, have their child show up for breakfast and/or lunch and enjoy a healthy meal – no registration is needed! The Dallas ISD Food and Child Nutrition Services Department will officially celebrate the summer meals kickoff at the Dallas Zoo on June 14. The first 1,000 online registrants will get…

Katherine Wooldridge has accumulated a lifetime of memories over her 44 years of teaching and working in schools. As the longest serving Dallas ISD campus-based team member to retire this summer, Wooldridge has dedicated her life to working with students with special needs. Before spending the past 20 years at Skyline High School, she worked at Spruce High School, served on the base staff that launched Multiple Careers Magnet, and worked at the district level supporting students with special needs. “This has been an amazing experience,” Wooldridge said. “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that every single kid wants you…

Dallas ISD Librarian of the Year Heather Hornor has one main goal at Skyline High School: ensure students know where the library is and how it can help them. Hornor has spent the past 18 years working in education, with the past seven of those as the Skyline librarian. As librarian at the city’s largest school, Hornor gets to positively impact a huge group of high school students. “I am most passionate about preparing our kids to succeed in the world as adults,” Hornor said. “I want to make sure every student can self-educate; discern between reliable and unreliable news…

Outstanding elementary school robotics team, fantastic partners and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings got shoutouts from the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees at the May 23 meeting. Trustees kicked off their presentation of board recognitions with a resolution honoring Rawlings, who they called “The Education Mayor.” The board then recognized these robotics teams for their accomplishments: The New Robolution of Alex Sanger Preparatory won the STEM Research Project Award at the U.S. Open National VEX Robotics Championship held in Iowa April 1-3. The “STEM Research Project” award is presented to the team that develops and delivers an effective research project presentation…