Browsing: Inside Dallas ISD
There’s nothing quite like having one of your own in the limelight. When retired NFL great Tim Brown is formally inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend, lots of local fans will share the pride of his accomplishment, not the least of them being Dallas ISD, which is where Brown got his start. Many in Dallas ISD praise Brown—an alum of Woodrow Wilson High School, graduate of Notre Dame University, Heisman Trophy winner, and NFL record-holder—as a hometown success story. In an extensive Dallas Morning News profile, Brown, the first and only Dallas ISD grad to go into…
With a new school year on the horizon, Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services has been hard at work to find new ways to help fuel student success by offering breakfast, lunch and in some cases dinner at district schools. For the third year, Dallas ISD will provide school meals at no charge to all district students. Families are not required to complete the free or reduce lunch application to receive free meals. Breakfast in the Classroom is expected to expand to all Dallas ISD high schools by the end of the year. Unlike elementary and middle schools, where…
In just three days, many students at the inaugural Cheer Camp held at Billy Earl Dade Middle School went from never cheerleading at all to performing a detailed routine that involved dancing, cheers, and throwing a fellow cheerleader in the air before safely catching them. Vonda Pipkin and Brittney Scott, two Distinguished Teacher Review-eligible teachers who voluntarily transferred to Dade Middle School as part of the district’s Accelerating Campus Excellence Initiative, started the cheer camp as a way to promote team building and leadership skills. The camp featured more than 20 cheerleaders-in-training from schools across the district. “It gives these students something…
More than 280 Dallas ISD high school juniors and seniors are gaining real world experience thanks to the Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program, which kicked off June 15. The Hub is spotlighting some of these Dallas ISD students participating in the program. Today, meet Chandler Thomas, a Booker T. Washington senior.