Inside Dallas ISD

John Ireland Elementary School teacher Eboni Jones-Davis got the surprise of a lifetime at a school-wide pep-rally: all new materials for her classroom, including furniture and flexible seating, speakers and headphones. The North Texas Honda Dealers and Helpful Honda surprised Jones-Davis with the supplies as part of its Random Acts of Helpfulness campaign on May 10. The campaign honors the efforts of deserving local school teachers who double as role models for their students. Around Ireland Elementary School, Jones-Davis is known for integrating innovative, real-world applications when teaching math and reading to her students. For example, during a volume lesson,…

A Dallas ISD high school student will spend next school year living in Germany with a host family, attending a German high school, and participating in a four-week language and cultural immersion camp to gain a better understanding of German culture, language, and everyday life. Alina McSpadden, a rising junior at Booker T. Washington For the Visual & Performing Arts, is one of 250 American high school students from across the United States to be awarded the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. CBYX is a bi-lateral exchange program co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of…

At the age of 15, Joshua Suarez went from being an ordinary kid worrying about school to fighting for his life against stage four testicular cancer. Suarez, who will graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School later this month, still vividly remembers the day he received the diagnosis. “My heart sunk to the bottom of my chest when I heard the word ‘cancer.’ I didn’t know what to think, what to feel, or what to do,” Suarez said. “It was really heartbreaking to hear, and all I could ask was ‘why me?’” The cancer spread to his lungs, with approximately 22…

In a technological world propelled by how we think, interact and learn, digital classrooms are no longer the wave of the future, because the future is here and now. If schools are not on board already, they’re behind the curve. These futuristic classrooms are grabbing the attention of nonprofits like NewSchools Venture Fund, which amplifies the learning environment in innovative ways. Super powers ‘IGNITE’ middle schoolers Classrooms like those at IGNITE Middle School are ahead of the curve as educators follow a campus model that guides students to discover their own super power. NewSchools is helping each student find that…