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College and career readiness drives facility planning (video)
0Dallas ISD’s Future Facilities Task Force was presented the first draft on Tuesday of recommendations regarding how the district’s facilities can be utilized and enhanced to best prepare students for college and the workplace. Check out this video to learn more.
VIDEO: Freedom Writer reaches back to help students
0Manny Scott, one of the original Freedom Writers, went from being a dropout to earning his Ph.D, thanks to the help of an inspiring student teacher. In presentations around the country he shares his experience with students to help them take responsibility for their lives. He works to eliminate bullying and encourages students to spread a philosophy of compassion and understanding. In this video, Scott brings his message of empowerment to students at T.W. Browne Middle School.
Playing her song: Music teacher bids farewell after 45-year journey
0The walls that were once covered with music notes and faces of composers were bare. Various trophies and accolades collected over the last four and a half decades were boxed. The dry erase board is how students would learn the notes Do, Re and Me, but at the end of this day it was permanently erased. Betty J. Bush took one last look at her classroom before her last day of her career. Looking back over her empty classroom, tears began to fill her eyes. “I think I’ll mostly miss the children,” Bush said days into her retirement. A few…
It’s show time for Lincoln High film students
0Thanks to their visionary work and knack for visual storytelling, the bright lights of recognition are shining on nearly 60 students in the film program at Lincoln High School. Fresh off a third-place finish in the Irving Black Arts Council Holiday Film Fest in December 2014, the students are looking to take center stage with two entries in the 2015 Dallas International Film Festival. Tony Boone, film teacher at Lincoln High, termed the students’ participation as a winning proposition for his young cinematographers. “It’s great publicity for our program. It’s also great for the students to be in a competitive…