Inside Dallas ISD

Each Dallas ISD elementary school is receiving two copies of “The Little Boy and the Old Woman,” a book written by state Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), thanks to a donation from AT&T. The book chronicles a boy’s friendship with an old woman he meets in a park, which teaches him many lessons about making his way in the world. On Sept. 29, Villalba visited John J. Pershing Elementary School to read his book and celebrate the donation.

Do you have a student in a Dallas ISD elementary school? Have you signed them up for the Kids Teaching Kids 21-Day Healthy Eating Challenge? Well, what are you waiting for – you only have until Monday, Oct. 9! Medical City Children’s Hospital and the Dallas Restaurant Association have partnered with Dallas-area high school culinary students who participate in Texas ProStart to create a cookbook full of healthy snack options that elementary students can assemble on their own. The recipes, made with easily accessible healthy ingredients, are designed to get young students in the habit of reaching for healthy snack…

Woodrow Wilson High School student Mary Holt and Amari DeFrance, a student at the Seagoville Pathways to Technology Early College High School, are heading to a national competition for entreperenuers, and they need your help! The students are competing in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship National Business Competition this month in October in New York City. The public can vote on their business ideas to help them win the competition. Holt and her friend and former classmate, Hannah Wahl, have a business idea called Brownie Bar. The business would be a food stand, a la Chipotle, where customers could customize all-natural brownie orders…

The Junior League of Dallas (JLD), along with presenting sponsor Texas Instruments (TI), awarded 69 Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) educators with grants of up to $2,000 each through the Grants for Innovative Teaching (GFIT) program. Go here to see a full list of the awarded grants. This JLD Signature Project has awarded more than $1.7 million to Dallas ISD educators and is designed to encourage excellence in education by funding special projects addressing: reading and literacy enrichment; diversity; special education; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); or arts and culture enrichment across one or more grade levels. This year,…