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Event provides HBCU Experience/pep rally for 500 Dallas ISD students (video)
0Earlier this month, the HBCU Experience cranked up at Hulcy STEAM Middle School to highlight historically black colleges and universities. The atmosphere felt a lot like a pep rally thanks to performances by the Lincoln, Sunset, Wilmer-Hutchins and South Oak Cliff high school bands, cheerleaders and dancers. About 500 students participated and more than 250 band students performed at the event, which was coordinated by the Dallas ISD African American Success Initiative, on Sept. 22. Each student who attended received a book – “The HBCU Experience” – to help reinforce the importance of developing personal home libraries. Between band performances,…
School Time-Capsule Project looks to future to boost parental involvement today
0Walk into T.W. Browne Middle School and you will notice a 5-foot-tall steel safe in the entry lobby. The safe might not have gold or money, but it’s still filled with valuables: letters that students wrote to themselves about their future goals. The safe also has some parent-written letters detailing their dreams for their child’s future. Similar safes are currently in 11 other Dallas ISD schools as part of the School Time-Capsule Project organized by Bill Betzen, a retired Dallas ISD teacher who now volunteers with the district. Betzen started the School Time-Capsule Project as a way to help students…
Seagoville High welcomes Lt. Gov. Patrick’s P-TECH state council during workshop
0Dallas ISD this week hosted Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s State of Texas P-TECH Advisory Council during a conference at Seagoville High School. The workshops featured discussions on design, planning, implementation and partnership development for this initiative. The group selected by Lt. Governor Patrick is the first of its kind in Texas. Israel Cordero, deputy of School Leadership for Dallas ISD, welcomed nearly 50 participants and served as a panelist. Seagoville High School Principal Angela West also sat on various panel discussions during the conference and provided updates on opening the first P-TECH campus in the state. The second half of the workshop…
Annual event focuses on State of Public Education in Dallas area
0The Dallas Regional Chamber welcomed business and civic leaders to downtown Dallas at the Sheraton Hotel for the district’s State of Public Education Address. Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Morath provided the keynote speech at the event. “We have to provide a system that is a common public education system that works for all of our young people,” Morath said. In addition to Morath’s address, the Dallas Regional Chamber hosted a roundtable of educational leaders. The panelists discussed current issues and best practices in public education today. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa joined Desoto ISD Superintendent Dr. David Harris and Yasmin Bhatia,…