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City Hall reception honors ACE teachers and leaders (video)
0A special reception at City Hall honored the teachers and leaders at Dallas ISD ACE campuses who have dramatically improved student learning over the past three years. The ACE program, which stands for Accelerating Campus Excellence, boosts student achievement by staffing struggling schools with strong leaders and high-performing teachers. The reception held March 27 showed appreciation to these teachers and campus leaders. “We are celebrating how we are closing the achievement gap and ensuring all students have excellent schools in Dallas ISD,” said Jolee Healey, the Dallas ISD assistant superintendent overseeing the ACE program. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings thanked the…
Read for Me brings books to life for hundreds of families
0More than 500 students attended an interactive reading event that brought books and learning to life. The Dallas ISD Reading and Language Arts Department hosted Read for Me at Adamson High School on Saturday, March 24. The event featured more than 40 different sessions for children of all ages and their parents and more than 10,000 books were given away. Special guests included renowned author and researcher, Dr. Alfred Tatum; authors and former NFL players, Nate Livings and Langston Moore; and book characters Cat in the Hat and Curious George. “We are so appreciative of all of the community partners…
District to expand ACE program to boost struggling schools
0Dallas ISD is expanding an initiative that helps boost student achievement by staffing struggling schools with strong leaders and high-performing teachers. The district launched the ACE program, which stands for Accelerating Campus Excellence, in the 2016–2017 school year at seven historically low-performing schools. Dallas ISD this school year added an additional six schools to the ACE program. With ACE campuses showing significant improvement in student achievement, the district is building on this success by bringing these additional six schools into the ACE program for the 2018–2019 school year: Cesar Chavez Learning Center Paul L. Dunbar Learning Center L.L Hotchkiss Elementary…
Two new transformation schools opening in August will mirror winning programs
0Dallas ISD trustees approved opening two new transformation schools in August with learning models that have been successful on other campuses. Students have until April 30 to go here and apply to these two new schools. Sam Houston Elementary will become a personalized learning campus that will mirror the successful model of Dan D. Rogers Elementary School. Students currently in grades 2–4 at Houston Elementary can stay at the campus under the same elementary school model as previous years, while students currently in grades pre-K-2 will start under the personalized learning model next school year. Meanwhile, Onesimo Hernandez Elementary will become…