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Welcome to Talking TEI
0Anyone who has attended a Dallas ISD school will likely agree that the district has some of the best and most dedicated teachers in the country. Those who personally know a Dallas ISD teacher have likely seen firsthand how much work goes into being an effective teacher. Whether it is staying into the evening to help a struggling student, grading assignments on the weekend or getting excited over the summer about a new lesson idea, great teachers don’t have the privilege of ever really taking a day off. It’s not lip service to say that being an effective teacher can…
ACE school parents feel the change at Thomas A. Edison Middle Learning Center
0At the start of the school year, some parents were feeling a bit anxious about trying to understand the new changes coming to Edison as part of the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) initiative, which aims to boost student achievement by staffing identified schools with high-performing principals and teachers. Later, after Edison’s open house was held, parents and students began to feel the change and the new “you can do it” environment after watching the new group of teachers and the new principal interacting with the students with a high level of excitement. “Students are feeling good about themselves and are embracing…
Two new choice schools putting innovation into practice
0Imagine starting a completely new kind of school where the experiences will be unprecedented for both students and teachers. Even after only one week, the two new Dallas ISD Choice Schools—the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy at James W. Fannin and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) Middle School at D.A. Hulcy—are making it work. Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Academy at James W. Fannin It’s the first Friday morning of the school year at the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Academy at James W. Fannin, and the ninth-graders are quietly moving from one class to the next. Instead of a bell…
Two Dallas ISD schools ranked among nation’s best in college readiness
0Two Dallas Independent School District campuses are among the nation’s 500 best high school schools for college readiness, according to Newsweek. The School for the Talented and Gifted was ranked No. 36, while the School of Science and Engineering was listed as No. 229. Both campuses, housed at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, earned high marks for the percentage of students that demonstrate college readiness, as well as graduation rate and the percentage of students that are college bound. According to the magazine, Newsweek “evaluates schools on a broad range of criteria in order to identify schools that excel…