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District is seeking first students at the new Hulcy STEAM Middle School (video)
0The D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle School, opening in Fall 2015, will add a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics to its traditional curriculum. Listen as Principal Jonica Lockwood explains how the new Choice School will emphasize techology-based 21st-century learning. Initially, the school will open with up to 150 sixth-graders. Applicants who live within 3.5 miles of the campus, located at 9339 S. Polk St., will be given priority. There are no academic requirements to attend. Find information and apply at www.dallasisd.org/applychoice.
Help us celebrate teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week
0This week, May 4-8, is Teacher Appreciation Week! We want to know about the teachers who have positively impacted your life and also give you an opportunity to say thanks. Make a brief video (cell-phone video is fine) of yourself thanking your favorite teachers and telling why they mean so much you. Submit a photo or selfie with you and your favorite teacher. Send submissions via email to thehub@dallasisd.org, and we will share them here. If you post about your favorite teachers to social media, please tag with #DallasISD and #ThankATeacher. We will celebrating teachers and the hard work they…
Expanded technology infrastructure benefits students, teachers
0A significant increase in wireless and broadband capacity at Dallas ISD has connected students and teachers with new ways to learn. Internet usage by students and staff at Dallas ISD has increased by approximately 3,000 percent since 2011. The increase is largely due to wireless and broadband improvements completed by the Dallas ISD Information Technology Services department during the past three years. “Learning can be more personalized through technology and that couldn’t happen without a strong wireless infrastructure in place,” said Frank Tyminski, Assistant Superintendent of Information Technology. “Without the hardware and broadband and wireless infrastructure, we’d be stuck in the…
Dallas ISD tops TEA list of high-performing and high-progress Title I schools
0Dallas ISD has the most high-performing and high-progress low-income schools in Texas, according to a report issued Thursday by the Texas Education Agency. The TEA report listed 25 Dallas ISD schools among the top 400 high-performing and high-progress Title I schools in Texas for 2014–15. Title I schools are campuses with a student population of at least 40 percent low-income. “While we talk of the need to close the education achievement gap, the real work in accomplishing that goal is already taking place on these campuses,” Commissioner of Education Michael Williams said in a statement. “Whether identified as high-performing, high-progress…