Inside Dallas ISD

Volunteers who helped tutor Dallas ISD students via a computer throughout the school year met with the students face-to-face at end-of-year celebrations across the district. TutorMate is an online tutoring program that connects volunteers with first-grade students learning to read. Multiple Dallas-area businesses volunteered with Dallas ISD schools through TutorMate. “TutorMate has successfully merged technology and tutoring to improve reading at some of our most at-need schools,” said Tom Hayden of Dallas ISD’s Volunteer and Partnership Services. “We are grateful to our TutorMate Business Volunteers for making this support available to the Dallas ISD.” At an end-of-year celebration at T.G.…

Thomas C. Marsh Preparatory Academy is Dallas ISD’s first Personalized Learning middle school, and its innovative programs make the campus a fantastic choice for families. The school’s mission is to provide students the tools they need to be leaders and overcome future challenges. This is done through personalized instruction and by offering a variety of quality extracurricular opportunities. Marsh serves its community as a neighborhood school, but students may also transfer to the school from elsewhere in the district.

Bryan Adams High School students won third place in the Destination Imagination Global Competition held in Tennessee! Meanwhile, Rosemont Elementary was the DaVinci Recipient at the competition. Destination Imagination is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. Participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem-solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at a tournament.

Elsy Morales was recently selected as one of three 2017 Sulentic Family Foundation Scholarship winners. She credits her teachers at H. Grady Spruce High School for helping her achieve academic success. “I’ve had so many problems, and I didn’t have anybody to talk to,” Morales said. “So the only people I could turn to were my teachers.” After attending a community college for two years and earning a four-year degree at a university, she said she hopes to return to her community to help others. Watch the video to hear her story.