Inside Dallas ISD

As part of the week-long celebration of NFL Play 60, the Dallas Cowboys Rookie Club and Essilor Vision Foundation teamed up to bring an NFL PLAY 60 / READ 20 clinic to James Bowie Elementary School in Dallas on Tuesday, September 26. Prior to the start of the clinic, Essilor Vision Foundation set up a vision event for the fifth-grade class. The vision event focused on vision as a driver of overall wellness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vision impairment is one of the most prevalent disabling conditions among children in the U.S. Good vision is crucial…

Dallas ISD’s ongoing “Super Heroes: Teaming for Success” initiative hit a major milestone on Sept. 26. The district hosted a schoolwide literacy celebration for more than 500 students at Paul L. Dunbar Learning Center in South Dallas. The initiative, which has the goal of fostering a lasting culture of literacy within the district, will increase access to books in both the classroom and in students’ homes. This event included the unveiling of classroom library makeovers for all pre-K – 5 classrooms at the elementary school, donated by Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company. Presenters and special guests…

To close out Education: Go Get it Week, C.A. Tatum Jr. Elementary School hosted a College Day Parade to help get students excited for their futures. Students held posters and signs of different colleges and universities they could attend, as parents and staff helped and cheered them on. Education: Go Get It Week was Sept. 18-22 and helped students districtwide learn about postsecondary opportunities.

When Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast region, 11-year-old Bianca Reynoso knew she wanted to help. So, the Alex Sanger Elementary School student did what she does best: she baked. For the next 12 hours, she stood tirelessly in her kitchen preparing goodies for a bake sale that would benefit students attending Dallas ISD who were impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Soon after, she sold various homemade treats to people whom she never met to benefit peers she never met. And on one Sunday afternoon, Reynoso raised nearly $500 for victims of Hurricane Harvey. On Sept. 21, the sixth-grader presented United Way…