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BEST OF: Dallas ISD teacher wins national award
0Editor’s note: During the Thanksgiving holiday, The Hub will take a look back at some of the best and most popular stories from our first semester. This story was originally published on Sept.19, 2014. Recently honored by Teach For America’s with the national Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching, Shirley Bolden feels teaching was what she was meant to do all along. Shirley teaches sixth-grade reading and writing at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Hailing from Detroit, Shirley graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism. She found her way into teaching through the Teach For America program. Of Shirley’s three sixth-grade classes, two…
BEST OF: Teacher draws from classroom experience to create comic-book hero
0Editor’s note: During the Thanksgiving holiday, The Hub will take a look back at some of the best and most popular stories from our first semester. This story was originally published on Oct. 10, 2014. Hector Rodriguez, a first-grade dual-language teacher at Jerry Junkins Elementary School, never imagined that his artistic endeavors and his teaching career would intersect. As it turned out, his teaching influenced his art. Rodriguez is the author and illustrator of El Peso Hero, a comic book featuring a fictional Mexican superhero who is the voice and hero of immigrants along the Texas-Mexico border. Being a teacher is what spurred Rodriguez…
BEST OF: Dallas ISD schools rank among nation’s best
0Editor’s note: During the Thanksgiving holiday, The Hub will take a look back at some of the best and most popular stories from our first semester. This story was originally published on Aug. 27, 2014. Two of the top 10 performing schools in the nation are in the Dallas Independent School District, according to a recent report released by The Daily Beast, a news reporting and opinion website The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center ranks No. 3 in the country and the School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center ranks No. 7. “These…
BEST OF: Dallas ISD celebrates the best day ever!
0Editor’s note: During the Thanksgiving holiday, The Hub will take a look back at some of the best and most popular stories from our first semester. This story was originally published on Sept. 15, 2014. Superintendent Mike Miles commended principals and teachers on their efforts in the classroom on The Best Day Ever, celebrated Sept. 15. The day was a concentrated push toward the district’s increased focus on student achievement. Below is Miles’ message to school staff. “Yesterday was a great instructional day in Dallas ISD – ‘the Best Day Ever.’ Academic facilitators, executive directors, assistant superintendents, Dr. Ann Smisko and I each visited…