Inside Dallas ISD

Each summer since 2008, hundreds of Dallas ISD middle and high school students have the chance to attend an intensive, weeklong band camp conducted by the Dallas Winds. This year’s camp was staged this week at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The camp culminates with performances in front of family and friends at the Meyerson Symphony Center at the end of the week. Check out a photo gallery of today’s activities above.

Enroll your child in the Ronald E. McNair Elementary School Summer Science and Enrichment camp through June 16 available to students in select schools in District 6. Students will receive breakfast and lunch at no cost and participate in weekly fieldtrips in addition to social/emotional development activities each afternoon. Register for he McNair SSEC here. Or, if your family is looking to (ad)venture around the city the summer, there is still time to take advantage of the Dallas City of Learning which connects students to in-person and online educational experiences all summer long. K-12 students and families can access summer…

After 44 years of working at Elisha M. Pease Elementary School, Burea Shelley celebrated her last day at work last week. Shelley, a teacher assistant, was the longest active serving Dallas ISD employee to retire this month. Affectionately known as “Momma Pease,”Shelley has been a positive presence at the school her entire career. “I love working with these kids and the parents, and I love this school,” she said. “Seeing the students come through here, graduate college, have families and then come back to see me has been a blessing.” Shelley is one of the approximately 300 district employees who retired this month.…

Later this week, Susi Parks Grissom will turn off the lights and lock the door of the library at William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted for the last time after 16 years as the school’s librarian. She is retiring on a high note, though, as Dallas ISD’s Librarian of the Year. Grissom’s mission was to support teachers and the curriculum they teach by reinforcing and enhancing those lessons in the library. That included helping with research projects, among other things. At times, the library was simply a place to gather for students, staff and parents. “It…