Inside Dallas ISD

Spend the next 63 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more. Principal for a Day Principal for a Day brought more than 175 business and community leaders from the private sector into Dallas ISD schools (learn more). Books for elementary schools Thanks to a donation from AT&T, each Dallas ISD elementary school will receive two copies of a children’s book written by state Rep. Jason Villalba (learn more). Thanks to custodial workers! National Custodial Workers’ Recognition Day was this week, and it was…

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…