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DTR applicant builds a collaborative community (video)
0Rachel Harrah, a theatre art teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, at first thought the Distinguished Teacher Review Process would prove daunting. “I thought it was going to be a mountain I’d have to climb up by myself,” she said. However, now that she has gone through the DTR process, she said that support from other DTR-eligible teachers made the process “a collaborative community instead of one person out to prove themself.” “More importantly, it also showed that Dallas has the best teachers,” she said. “We have the teachers that are making a difference.” The Hub spoke with Harrah last…
W.T White to celebrate its 50-year anniversary
0W.T. White students, teachers, and alumni will commemorate 50 years of memories at this weekend’s anniversary celebration. Or, as W.T. White Principal Michelle Thompson laughingly put it, the alumni will come back to the school and fondly remember the bathroom they cried in after they broke up with their significant other, the gym where they competed for high school glory, and the classroom that set them on a path of lifelong learning. “It will be great to see our alumni come back and relive their memories from when they went here,” she said. “This weekend will be a lot of…
Map details district pre-K expansion plans
0On March 27, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees approved a plan that will invest approximately $129.5 million into addressing critical needs at district schools. A portion of the Bridge Plan, as it is called, will add more pre-K classrooms throughout the district. Alan Cohen, executive director of Dallas ISD’s Early Childhood and Community Partnership Program, said expanding pre-K options is critical since research shows that 85 percent of a child’s brain development occurs in their first five years. “If we don’t reach children in that window of opportunity when they’re learning at a rate that they’re never going to…
Recruitment fair connects high-performing teachers with ACE principals
0A recruitment fair Wednesday evening marked a significant step towards staffing the six schools identified in the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) plan with highly effective teachers. The fair connected approximately 180 high-performing district teachers with principals at the six ACE schools. The ACE plan, which the district launched last week, aims to equip campuses where students are struggling academically with strong leaders and teams of highly effective teachers. “The recruitment fair was an opportunity to honor our DTR-eligible teachers for their work in the classroom and also to encourage them to consider taking their talent to an ACE campus in 2015-16,”…