Inside Dallas ISD

Under the approved Dallas ISD 2019–2020 calendar, the school year will start for students on Aug. 19, include a full week off for Thanksgiving, and end for students on May 27. Important dates for the Dallas ISD calendar for 2019-2020 include: First Day For Students: Aug. 19 Staff/Student Holiday: Sept. 2 Elementary Fair Day/Secondary Professional Development Day: Oct. 11 Secondary Fair Day/Elementary Professional Development Day: Oct. 18 Dallas ISD Thanksgiving Break 2019: Nov. 25–29 Dallas ISD Winter Break 2019: Dec. 23-Jan. 3 Student/Staff Holiday: Jan. 20 Student/Staff Holiday: Feb. 17 Dallas ISD Spring Break 2020: March 16–20 Student/Staff Holiday: April…

Henry W. Longfellow Career Exploration Academy is a magnet middle school that challenges students academically while encouraging them to identify and explore career options. Longfellow offers the same middle school academic curriculum available in all Dallas ISD middle schools, and also helps students prepare for the future with pre-AP classes, courses for high school credit, career and technical opportunities, internships, project-based learning, computer science, and more.   The Longfellow staff invites families to bring their students and their questions to a special application open house from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7, at the campus at 5314 Boaz…

The Margaret Hunt-Hill Bridge never tasted so good. Well, at least that’s possibly true of the miniature structure made out of gingerbread, marshmallows and icing by students at Dallas ISD’s Multiple Career Magnet Center (MCMC). It’s part of a baked and candy-bedazzled cityscape that includes a rendition of the school, a skyscraper and will eventually feature Big Tex and the Cotton Bowl. Chef Stephen Drake, who leads the culinary cluster at the school, has used the gingerbread-building lesson when he taught culinary arts at Roosevelt, Lincoln and Townview Center. Students bake the gingerbread, help plan the structures and then assemble…

Principal Onjaleke Brown found orange peels everywhere in the classroom. Normally, such as mess would be frustrating, but the fruity remains were evidence that first-graders at N.W. Harllee Early Childhood Center enjoyed tasting the fresh satsuma mandarin oranges trucked in this morning from Sturdivant Farms near the Texas coast. The “Harvest of the Month” is an ongoing program by Dallas ISD Food and Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) that highlights a locally grown produce item. Students get to sample the produce and learn facts about it and, in the case of Harllee, sometimes meet the farmers behind the food. Christopher Sturdivant…