Inside Dallas ISD

A $20 million investment by Dallas ISD will allow the district to deploy iPads to approximately 46,000 students in pre-K through 2nd grade and Chromebooks for 14,000 students in grades 3–5 prior to the start of school on Sept. 8. The Dallas ISD Technology Department will host technology deployment events at each elementary school campus in the weeks leading up to the start of school. Parents will receive a backpack of supplies for each student. Inside that backpack will be the assigned computing device, charger, earbuds, a mobile Internet hotspot if the student doesn’t have access to the Internet at…

Eric Hale, a Kindergarten and First Grade Teacher at David G. Burnet Elementary School, was named 2021 Region 10 Elementary Teacher of the Year at a special virtual celebration on July 30. The event, hosted by Region 10 Education Service Center, recognizes all teachers of the year from school districts in the north central Texas region. The Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the Texas Association of School Administrators, allows districts to submit one elementary and one secondary candidate to compete at the regional and state levels. This year, 113 teachers from across 63 school districts in Region 10,…

Dallas-based education nonprofit, United to Learn, shared that it will partner with an additional 25 Dallas ISD elementary schools. The new schools double the number of campuses benefitting from United to Learn’s work, which aims to eliminate resource gaps and accelerate student achievement—now across 52 Dallas ISD elementary schools. With a mission of changing lives by transforming the relationship between schools and community, United to Learn has proven its model for mobilizing community partners to support Dallas public schools. Beyond the 52 Dallas ISD elementary schools, the United to Learn network includes over 25 community partners, including private schools, faith-based organizations,…

The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees have called a meeting for this Thursday, July 23, to consider changes in the school year calendar as follows: – Start date moves from Aug. 17, 2020, to Sept. 8, 2020. – Removal of holidays in October due to State Fair Cancellation. – Addition of holiday on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. – Change from six-week grading periods to nine-week grading periods. – End date moves from May 27, 2021, to June 18, 2021. View the board agenda here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3eMo7wr This meeting will be shared via Facebook Live.