Inside Dallas ISD

Harry Stone Montessori Academy celebrate the Chinese New Year with a fantastic performance from the Chua Phap Quang Lion Dance Team. The dance team performed traditional Chinese New Year music dances to the delight of students. Harry Stone, an International Baccalaureate World School, spent the entire week building up to the performance, with traditional decorations from the Chinese New Year covering the campus. The Harry Stone PTA cosponsored the great event.

Teachers at David G. Burnet Elementary School were confused at first when students kept coming to them asking for extra assignments. Turns out, the students were part of the “100’s Club,” an after-school program at the campus that motivates students to get perfect scores on assignments, tests and attendance. “The club is having a noticeable positive impact on our students’ grades and performance,” said Mrs. Johnson, who runs the club along with Alejandra Romo, a recreation program specialist with the City of Dallas. Every month the students in the club set a goal for how many 100s they will get…

A new sensory room at Rosemont Primary is helping students with special needs unwind. With the support of Rosemont’s Parent Teacher Association and Dad’s Club, Special Education teacher Sarah Contreras helped make the sensory room a reality to benefit the students. “This is an outlet for our students to release some of that sensory overload or take in some of that sensory that they might need,” Contreras said. A ribbon cutting on Feb. 16 saw members of the PTA, Dad’s Club and Trustee Audrey Pinkerton celebrate the new sensory room. As students laughed and played in the ball pit, trampoline and…

With 269 teams competing at the Destination Imagination Regional Tournament this past weekend, 28 Dallas ISD teams qualified for the upcoming state competition. In order to qualify, teams had to place first or second in their category after performing a team challenge and an instant challenge. The winning teams are: Promoting creativity and teamwork to more than 100,000 schoolchildren across the United States, Destination Imagination is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended challenges and present their solutions at tournament competitions. Dallas ISD had 28 of the total 33 teams that qualified for the state tournament. Hosted in Mansfield,…