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Eight neighborhood campuses celebrate selection as new innovation schools
0From the full-throated singing of uplifting songs to parades in the hall, each of the eight Dallas ISD campuses selected to become innovation schools celebrated in different ways. An innovation school offers a new academic model inside an existing neighborhood campus that keeps its traditional boundaries. As part of the Office of Transformation and Innovation (OTI) proposal process, leadership at each of the eight schools spent months designing new academic models. “These eight new innovation schools focus on our neighborhood campuses, bringing more educational choices into our families’ backyards,” said Angie Gaylord, Dallas ISD Deputy Chief of Transformation and Innovation.…
Students celebrate Black History Month with variety of activities
0From special performances to guest speakers, Dallas ISD schools are celebrating Black History Month in a variety of ways. At John Ireland Elementary School, students staged a special performance that reenacted momentous events from African American history and gave speeches from the perspective of black icons. CBS 11 reporter Steve Pickett served as the keynote speaker at a special Black History Month performance at Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy. At T.L. Marsalis Elementary School, the Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s dance ensemble brought its musical adaptation of “Peter and the Wolf” to the campus. Students also enjoyed the opportunity to learn…
Student-athletes commit to keep competing on National Signing Day
0About 130 student-athletes in Dallas ISD’s Class of 2019 participated in the 20th annual College Signing Day ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Ellis Davis Field House. The students publicly committed to accept college and university scholarship offers they have received to fund their educations while playing sports. See photos of students walking the red carpet here. The participating signees are: Bryan Adams High School Bryan Baldomero, football: Austin College DaQuon Bell, football: Texas College Dre Brown, football: Minnesota State Comm. and Technical College Angel Guzman, football: Texas College Zaki Henderson, football: Texas College Devin Jackson, football: ASA College-Miami Armani…
Collegiate academy sophomores get letters of intent to teach in Dallas ISD
0Seventy Dallas ISD collegiate academy sophomores received a letter of a lifetime on Feb. 5: after they get their college degree, they are guaranteed a teaching job in Dallas ISD with a starting salary of at least $52,000. District officials gave the letters of intent at a ceremony to the sophomores who attend the collegiate academies at Samuell, W.T. White, Bryan Adams and Sunset high schools. The Dallas ISD Human Capital Management (HCM) Department is an industry partner of the collegiate academies that have an emphasis on early childhood education. HCM Chief Cynthia Wilson called the new “homegrown teacher pipeline”…