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District prepares for April 11 job fair to find effective classroom teachers
0Following on the heels of Dallas ISD’s record-breaking job fair held in March, the Human Capital Management (HCM) department is gearing up for another massive event to ensure all district classrooms start the 2015-2016 school year with an effective teacher at the helm. From 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 11, all 226 Dallas ISD schools will convene at Emmett J. Conrad High School in their search for highly qualified teacher candidates. Nearly 1,200 candidates attended the March job fair, and over 400 of them received job offers. “For this upcoming event, we have a goal of getting over 1,000 teacher candidates…
District Announces 2015-2016 ACE Principals
0Today, Dallas Independent School District announced the six principals, all selected from within the district, who will lead the 2015-2016 Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) schools. The new ACE principals are: ACE Campus Incoming Principal Incoming Principal’s Current Campus Annie Webb Blanton Elementary School Ms. Laura Garza Ascher Silberstein Elementary School Roger Q. Mills Elementary School Ms. Janeen Pantoja Current Division 2 Coordinator Elisha M. Pease Elementary School Ms. Angel McKoy Soto Elementary School Umphrey Lee Elementary School Ms. Roshonda Clayton-Brown Birdie Alexander Elementary Thomas A. Edison Middle Learning Center Mr. Luis Valdez Raul Quintanilla, Sr. Middle Sarah Zumwalt Middle School…
District launches ‘ACE’ plan to improve struggling schools
0The Dallas Independent School District is taking the first step today in launching the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) initiative, which aims to equip campuses where students are struggling academically with strong leaders and teams of highly effective teachers. Six schools that have previously been designated by the Texas Education Agency as Improvement Required schools have been selected to be part of the ACE program during the 2015-16 school year. The schools are: Annie Webb Blanton Elementary Roger Q. Mills Elementary Elisha M. Pease Elementary Umphrey Lee Elementary Thomas A. Edison Middle Learning Center Sarah Zumwalt Middle School. All six schools…
Career certifications skyrocket at Dallas ISD (video)
0Between 2009–10 and 2013–14, the number of career certifications received by district students rose from 177 to 1,683, an increase of more than 850 percent. And with increasing the number of Career and Technical Education (CTE) certifications a goal of Destination 2020, the district’s plan to raise student achievement for all students, Richard Grimsley, Dallas ISD director of career education and workforce partnerships, said the aim is that students earn 4,000 CTE certificates by 2020. Specialized CTE courses are offered at every Dallas ISD middle and high school. The courses, which range from horticulture to automotive tech and cosmetology, give student an opportunity…