Inside Dallas ISD

Leading up to Veterans Day 2015, Dallas ISD is saluting district employees who are veterans of military service. Each day, the series will feature a video produced by Dallas Schools Television focusing on a veteran from one of the military’s five branches. Today’s video features U.S. Marine Corps veteran Willie Nimer, who is an instructor at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Go here to see the third story in the series: Honoring Our Veterans: U.S. Army veteran Edwin Dumas. Go here for the second story in the series: Honoring Our Veterans:  U.S. Coast Guard veteran Ben Dickerson. Go here for the first…

Dallas ISD’s Benjamin Franklin Middle School offers its students programs and activities to make them better students now and prepare them for the future. One of the offerings is the school’s first-year participation in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme. If approved, Franklin would join J.L. Long Middle School and Harry Stone Montessori and International Academy as IB middle schools. “It’s more rigorous,” said James Bryan, IB coordinator at Franklin. “And it allows for more inquiry-based learning, project-based learning.” Not available at every district middle school, Franklin also offers athletics for sixth-graders, which lets them play a variety of sports.…

Move over, Romeo and Juliet: Gary Griffith and Jackie Griffith overcame much more impressive star-crossed odds—they fell in love and later married, despite going to rival high schools. It was the ‘60s, and Gary was a Woodrow Wilson football player; Jackie was a Bryan Adams cheerleader. The schools, which are less than six miles from each other, were in the midst of a heated rivalry, each boasting a powerhouse, state-ranked varsity football team. But after seeing Jackie at a cheerleading camp held at SMU, Gary, who had dated several other girls from Bryan Adams, walked over to her and asked…

Leading up to Veterans Day 2015, Dallas ISD will salute district employees who are veterans of military service. Each day, the series will feature a video produced by Dallas Schools Television focusing on a veteran from one of the military’s five branches. Today’s video features U.S. Army veteran Edwin Dumas. Go here for the second story in the series: Honoring Our Veterans:  U.S. Coast Guard veteran Ben Dickerson. Go here for the first story in the series — Honoring Our Veterans: U.S. Air Force General Frank Gorenc