Editor’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…

Editor’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…

Editor’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. 25, 2014. Efforts to fill teaching vacancies prior to the school year are paying dividends during the Dallas Independent School District’s annual review of school staffing. Less than 1 percent of the district’s 10,000 teachers are expected to be impacted by the review. Through a process called staff leveling, teachers are transferred from a school with lower enrollment than projected to a campus that needs additional teachers. The transfer process is…