The Mayor’s Back to School Fair—a one-stop shop for free school supplies and services—is happening Friday, Aug. 3, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Centennial Building at Fair Park. All Dallas ISD families can still register at the fair for free school supplies and services. Dallas ISD families can register by providing a student ID number and by showing one of the following documents: Most recent student report card Letter from student’s school stating the student attends a Dallas ISD school Student ID card Printout from the online Parent Portal that shows student’s ID number With approximately 35,000 expected to…

Analyzing brain scans and MRI data, coordinating professional sports press conferences, exploring airfield operations, witnessing a baby’s birth and working side-by-side with architects and engineers. These are just a handful of the life-changing opportunities that hundreds of high school students—many of whom attend Dallas ISD schools— experienced this summer as part of the 11th-annual Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program. To celebrate, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and more than 1,000 students and supporters gathered at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on July 27 for a luncheon to honor the interns and thank the hundreds of businesses and nonprofits…

Dallas ISD will kick off the 2018-2019 school year on Monday, Aug. 20. To help parents have a smooth first day of school, the district has set up two hotlines to answer questions and provide Back-to-School information such as: enrollment, bus routes, immunization requirements, school locations, school hours, and more. The hotlines are a one-stop shop, which allows parents to call one number and get quick and reliable information in English or Spanish. Parents may call the Dallas ISD Parent Hotline to ask questions prior to the first day of school by calling the Parent Hotline at (972) 925-5555. Hours are…

It’s Monday morning, and a group of Dallas ISD teachers are learning how to use a Mood Meter, which will help them recognize their own—and their students’—emotions. One of the summer professional learning sessions happening July 23 at W.H. Adamson High School is part of a continued district focus on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), which helps students develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to be successful in school, work and life. Through the Mood Meter, for example, students can reflect, name, and label their emotions in an effort to practice self-awareness, social awareness, and self-management. This helps the students…