Inside Dallas ISD

In an effort to fill bilingual teaching positions that can help meet students’ needs, Dallas ISD has recruited approximately 50 teachers from Spain. Marco Antonio Iglesias Rodriguez, a fourth-grade teacher at Herbert Marcus Elementary, is one of those teachers. Watch the above video to learn how teaching in Dallas ISD differs from teaching in Spain, why he was drawn to teach in the district, and how Dallas as a city is different from North Spain.

Damien Gonzalez, an automotive student at W.H. Adamson High School, is standing in front of a Lamborghini Diablo, and he really wants the car. Gonzalez was one of about 45 automotive students from Adamson who went to a Mecum Auction held Sept. 17 at the Dallas Convention Center. The Dallas ISD students attended the auction thanks to donated tickets from Mecum Auctions, which bills itself as the world’s largest collector car auction. Timmy Martin, the automotive instructor at Adamson, said the event taught students about the car restoration process and gave them an inside look at a car auction. Students from…

Seventeen-year-old Alison Geason is a determined young woman who knows where she’s going and isn’t wasting time getting there. Geason, a senior at the School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, says she’s known since pre-school that she wanted to become a doctor. After serving a traditional internship with a local physician, she decided she was ready for the next level – a more intensive, hands-on medical internship. So she did what any resourceful, technology-savvy young person might do to find that opportunity: she did an Internet search and found a medical internship program halfway around the…

Learn how Dallas ISD’s Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School prepares first-time college students to succeed after graduation. Besides the core classes students take at any district high school, students learn how to fill out applications for college and for scholarships. One particular class, the Early College & Career Seminar, is designed to help students shed their dependency on others as students and become independent adults. Teacher Claudia Simpkins designed the program, which goes through registering with the Selective Service for male students and registers all eligible students to vote. She also helps them project a positive image through their…