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Grad Goals: From Sunset Bisonettes to Boomer Sooner
0Grad Goals: From Sunset Bisonettes to Boomer Sooner! Meet Diego A., Sunset High School’s first male drill team captain in all of its 70-year history. Diego will be attending The University of Oklahoma after graduation as a modern dance major and hopes to be part of a professional dance company someday. Congrats, Diego! To share your unique graduation story, visit our website and stay tuned on our social media channels to see other Dallas ISD students we are highlighting throughout May. You can also share your grad’s story by: Posting your grad’s story on social media and tagging Dallas ISD…
AAPI Heritage Month Spotlight: Estrellita Perez Richter
0Since she was recruited from the Philippines 27 years ago, Estrellita Perez Richter, a gifted and talented program teacher at Julius Dorsey Leadership Academy, has made Dallas ISD home. Perez Richter came to the United States in 1995 to be a teacher as part of the district’s worldwide recruitment efforts of experienced teachers in response to teacher shortages here. She had been a teacher in the Philippines since 1978 and was teaching English as a second language to Chinese refugees—from 5 to 60 years old—before coming to Dallas. Even though Perez Richter spoke fluent English when she emigrated to the…
Grad Goals: From Skyline to stitching a future in the community, Rosalynn C.’s story
0Growing up in a household where some topics were taboo, Skyline High School senior Rosalynn C. decided to be the change she wanted to see in her community. When she first stepped onto one of the largest high school campuses in Texas, it was a bit overwhelming for someone who had just left a middle school with fewer than 40 students in her eighth-grade class. “Coming from a school that small to Skyline where there are at least 1,000 students in each grade was scary, and I had to go through a lot of transitions,” Rosalynn said. But after gaining…
Teaching, evolving, learning, and parenting together: The Hernandez Story
0Years before Angel and Christine Hernandez earned recognition for being the Campus Teachers of the Year at Solar Preparatory for Boys and Solar Preparatory for Girls, respectively, they were two new educators trying to figure out how to navigate the profession. Now they are married with a young son, constantly pushing each other to grow and partnering through it all. As fate would have it, they unknowingly attended rival high schools in northern Virginia and connected in Dallas ISD after college while working with Teach Across America. “Angel helped me get acclimated to Dallas and the district when I first…