Inside Dallas ISD

As part of the ongoing Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations, the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas donated 60 collections of Mexican textbooks to be displayed at school libraries and Dallas ISD’s Margaret and Gilbert Herrera Intake Center. Each set contains books on every core subject for grades one through six. In a joint ceremony with the district’s Parent Advocacy, Family and Community Engagement, Bilingual and Dual Language departments, and the intake center, Francisco de la Torre, Consul General of Mexico in Dallas, highlighted the importance of languages as working tools for future students. “Dallas ISD is a key and permanent…

Skyline High School student Noe Peralta was born and raised in Dallas, to parents originally from San Luis Potosi and Coahuila, Mexico, so Spanish is the language he grew up with at home.  “I am proud to be bilingual, as it connects me to my heritage,” said Noe. Noe is part of the World Languages Cluster at Skyline Career Development Center, where students learn to communicate in the language they choose by using a variety of oral proficiency-based materials. Skills include acquiring new vocabulary and grammar for everyday living, exposure to the spoken and written language, and activities that enable…

Enrique Rodriguez came to the U.S. from Cuba with his mother at the young age of 12. But life in his home country had already made a lasting impression on him.   “If you were to walk the streets of Havana, you’d see racial harmony. To be black is to be Cuban. To be brown is to be Cuban. To be white is to be Cuban. We have a strong sense of community, a common background and culture that unites us regardless of whether we’re in Cuba itself or any diaspora around the world.” To this day, as he leads C.A. Tatum…

September is Attendance Awareness Month for schools across the country. We know that when students are absent from school, they miss important instruction and may fall further behind on their path to completing their grade level or graduating. Dallas ISD provides support and encouragement to students to attend school every day, through its Attendance for Credit Program at each campus.  Beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 22, parents will begin to receive school messenger notification if their student has missed excessive days of instruction since the beginning of the school year. Dallas ISD’s Attendance for Credit program is based upon Texas Education Code 25.092, which states in…