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Hillcrest High School community to receive bond program updates on Jan. 10
0On Tuesday, January 10, parents and community members served by Hillcrest High School will have another opportunity to review the bond program improvements planned for their school. A community meeting is set for the campus at 6 p.m., Jan. 10, as a follow up to an initial feedback session held in August. Bond program architects and project managers are holding similar meetings at schools across the district to check in with stakeholders. The Construction Services department is working to ensure that improvements meet the needs identified as most important by staff and community members. Architects, principals and parents are walking campuses…
January is School Board Recognition Month!
0January is School Board Recognition Month, a time to thank local leaders for their dedication and willingness to serve as advocates for children and public schools. Dallas ISD joins other districts across the state in recognizing the work of its board. School boards are charged with establishing a vision for a district’s education program, designing a structure to achieve that vision, ensuring that schools are accountable to the community, and strongly advocating continuous improvement in student learning. Each school year, Dallas ISD asks nine busy professionals to collaboratively manage a school system with more than 156,000 students and a billion…
Data shows Dallas ISD retaining a strong majority of its highly effective teachers
0New data shows that Dallas ISD is retaining a strong majority of its highly effective teachers. The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) identifies, supports and rewards effective teaching. There are seven current effectiveness levels under TEI: Unsatisfactory, No Level, Progressing I and II, Proficient I, II, and III, and Exemplary I and II. Data shows that the teachers who earned a 2016-2017 effectiveness level of Proficient II or above, 93 percent were still with the district as of Sept. 1. Every Exemplary II teacher is still teaching in a Dallas ISD classroom. Eric Hale, an Exemplary I teacher at Burnet Elementary,…
Dallas ISD and Big Thought receive $400,000 planning grant to help students develop social and emotional skills
0The Wallace Foundation has awarded Dallas ISD and out-of-school-time partner Big Thought with a joint planning grant of $400,000 to develop students’ social and emotional intelligence skills that link to success in school, career and life. Meanwhile, Dallas ISD announced it has identified the 12 schools that will serve as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) pilot campuses. Trustees in 2016 adopted a policy requiring all Dallas ISD schools to implement SEL districtwide by 2025. The pilot schools will help the district develop a systemic SEL implementation plan that can be used districtwide. All pilot sites and their partnering out-of-school time providers…