Inside Dallas ISD

At a special ceremony at Gilley’s Dallas, Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas presented Dallas ISD with the Employer and Community Impact Award! Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas has provided great support for Dallas ISD Career and Technical Education (CTE) students across the district. “We appreciate our partnership with Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas to support students in Dallas ISD in their pursuit to engage in high tech, high wage, high skill employment,” said CTE Director Richard Grimsley. “We are thankful for this award that recognizes this great continued partnership.” Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas is focused on providing competitive solutions for employers through quality…

Four Dallas ISD educators have been selected for the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award, given yearly to educators who shape young minds in meaningful ways—thoughtfully approaching instruction, sharing an infectious love for learning, and caring for students inside and outside the classroom. The Dallas educators are: Cymone Lonon of the School for the Talented and Gifted Anaïs Childress of Hillcrest High School Claudia Simpkins of Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School Nate Smith of Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts This distinguished university award has existed for more than three decades. Each year,…

Students across Dallas ISD are receiving a powerful social and emotional learning (SEL) tool simply through a box.  Dallas ISD’s Social and Emotional Learning Department and Counseling Services Department are proud to partner with Tacky Box to provide students with a tool to help with the skills associated with social and emotional learning like kindness, empathy, compassion, and conflict-resolution that will benefit them in the classroom, home, and their communities.  Tacky Box was invented in January 2013 by Emma Phelps, a kindergartner at Lakewood Elementary, when she uttered a four-letter word to her mom. This ‘tacky’ language led Emma’s mom,…

When the world changed in the spring of 2020—and before mask-wearing became the trend—Girisha Siddappa sprang into action. He redirected his company, Fashion for Globe, Dallas based Fashion Tech Platform working with Fashion brands providing services from Design to manufacturing high-quality textiles and clothing, to immediately pivot and start making high-quality, comfortable cotton face masks, complete with insertable filters. The timing was critical as it was proven that mask-wearing limited the spread of COVID-19. Last week, he and his wife, Preeti, donated 3,500 face masks to Dallas ISD to be distributed to students, with many sized to fit younger kids.…