Inside Dallas ISD

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,…

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…