Inside Dallas ISD

Teachers and administrators from the seven Acellerating Campus Excellence (ACE) campuses were back in school a week early to participate in trainings designed to give them new strategies for classroom success. The sessions at Billy Earl Dade Middle School focused on new technologies, new skills to motivate students, and new tools to help close the achievement gap. The increased support for teachers in the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) schools is designed to bring the schools, all of which were designated as “Improvement Required” by the Texas Education Agency for several consecutive years prior to the start of the initiative, up to…

Dallas ISD will set up a back-to-school hotline to answer concerns and questions that arise during the first week of classes, starting Monday, Aug. 22, the first day of school. The parent hotline will address school-related concerns and ease the confusion often associated with the first week of school. Parents may call the hotline at (972) 925-5437 (KIDS) on Monday, Aug. 22, through Friday, Aug. 26, to receive information about enrollment, bus routes, immunization requirements, school location, hours of operation, and more. The hotline will operate in English and Spanish. Hotline hours are: 22–23: 7 a.m.–5 p.m. 24–26: 7:30 a.m.–5…

As students prepare to return to class on Monday, Aug. 22, Dallas ISD cafeterias will be hard at work to create recipes for success when it comes to school meals. “We are looking forward to welcoming students back to school to savor new and favorite flavors at breakfast, lunch and supper this year,” said Margaret Lopez, Executive Director of Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services. Once again, all students receive full meals at no charge under the Community Eligibility Provision. And those meals begin with Breakfast in the Classroom. Food Services personnel deliver meals to elementary and middle classrooms,…

Woodrow Wilson High School’s librarian, Valerie Tagoe, is pushing for library excellence. Tagoe was awarded the S. Janice Key Continuing Education Award from the Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Science this past April. The $500 award encourages professionals to continue education and development. The award helped Tagoe attend two state and national level librarian conferences as a presenter. She also had the pleasure of being selected to attend the first ever Texas Library Association Executive Leadership Program in Austin this August. Participants were selected to attend the Leadership Program through an application process that centered on a focus…