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Winnetka Elementary School kicked off a week-long celebration of the building’s 80th year anniversary and 106 years of providing exemplary education to children from Oak Cliff and surrounding communities. The anniversary started Nov. 1 with a Fall Carnival where Trustee Ben Mackey and State Representative Jessica Gonzalez presented a special recognition to students, coaches and the building. The W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy mariachi band performed and ROTC presented the colors. This week’s anniversary events include an alumni mixer, dance, movie night and time capsule ceremony. Winnetka Elementary first opened in 1913 as a four-room frame structure on pasture land…
As she won a national entrepreneurship competition in New York City this month at the age of 18, Jasmine Benton–a recent graduate of Dallas ISD’s Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA) at James W. Fannin– thought of those who helped set her on her path. At age 11, Benton started her business–Precious Designs–that today refurbishes and reupholsters housewares. In addition to the strong influence of her grandmother and mother, Benton credits her education at IDEA for helping set her on the path toward becoming a successful entrepreneur. “My teachers at IDEA invested in me and made sure I was able to…
Dallas ISD Stories is a new Hub series where district students, teachers and staff share their own stories. “I like my school because it gives me a head start on my future, and I get the college experience while I’m in high school. I should graduate high school with 60 hours of college credit, which is good, because I want to be an OBGYN, which requires a lot of school. I want to be an OBGYN because I like helping people, and when I heard what my sister went through when she delivered her child, I wanted to be in…
While strolling through Hobby Lobby, a creative idea came to Central Elementary School Counselor Ashley Williams: transform an empty locker at her school into a mailbox where student could anonymously drop notes expressing how they feel. “I noticed there were a lot of students who needed that extra person they could come to,” Williams said. “The emotional and mental state of kids is something that we are really focusing on, so I wanted to give my kids the opportunity to know that’s what I’m here for.” The locker-turned-mailbox allows students to easily tell Williams how they are feeling about a…