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Superintendent thankful for community that supports students
0As we pause to reflect this Thanksgiving holiday, I want to express my appreciation to you, our community, for the countless ways you support our District. As superintendent of a school district that serves more than 160,000 students, I am thankful for the outpouring of support Dallas ISD receives from our community. Parents who entrust our schools with their children, businesses and organizations that invest in and contribute to the well-being of students, civic leaders who are engaged in the challenging issues facing education, volunteers who devote hours of service as tutors and mentors, and citizens whose investment in schools…
Students flex academic muscles at decathlon
0Think back to your days studying art history. Keep going—back a little farther. Now, see if you can recall an important event of the Northern Renaissance? Here are your choices: Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks Emergence of the Medici family as art patrons Rebuilding of Saint Peter’s Basilica Publication of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists Challenge to the Catholic Church by Martin Luther That was just one of the questions asked of Dallas ISD students the weekend of Nov. 15 as they competed in the Academic Decathlon. Students from 19 Dallas ISD high schools met for a day of…
VIDEO: See what makes Tiffany Huitt an outstanding principal
0Tiffany Huitt, principal of the School of Science and Engineering at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, was recently recognized at a special reception honoring Dallas ISD’s top principals. This year as part of the district’s new pay for performance initiative, Huitt was one of 184 principals who received an increase in pay under the new system that is based on a combination of performance measures and student achievement results. With the new compensation plan, the higher the principal effectiveness, the higher the salary. On average, principals received a $9,164 increase in pay. The average salary for the 2014-2015 school year is…
Career fairs offer teacher candidates introduction
0The freezing temperatures weren’t enough to dissuade soon-to-be-graduates of University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University from coming out to the recent Education Career Fair in Denton. Dallas ISD joined school districts from Texas and beyond at the event where they met with potential teacher recruits, collecting résumés and discussing opportunities in our schools. The talent acquisition group in Human Capital Management travels to job fairs as close as downtown Dallas, and as far as Spain and Puerto Rico in search of the best candidates to educate students. According to Talent Leader Jordan Carlton, the chance to meet with…