Inside Dallas ISD

Stephanie Escobar was a student at Marsh Middle School when the school’s Military Museum was founded by Cpl. David Bates, now an assistant superintendent in Dallas ISD. Fast forward and Escobar is now a Leadership Cadet Corps instructor at the renamed Marsh Preparatory Academy, leading the cadet program and the museum, which recently marked its tenth anniversary. “The military museum is an extension of our classroom,” Escobar said. “Our students consider it a second home, a place to learn about military background and terminology.” Although the museum was not open as frequently as its leaders would have liked this school…

Celebrate the start of summer at all Dallas Public Library locations! Families are invited to join Dallas ISD’s Language, Literacy, and Social Studies Department  (LLSS) for the annual Read for Me event in collaboration with Mayor Eric Johnson’s SMART Summer Reading Kickoff Celebration on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Kickoff parties will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at 25 Dallas Public library branches.  On this special day, the LLSS Department will be present to reiterate Mayor Johnson’s summer reading initiative, help families sign up for library cards, participate in kickoff activities, and hand out thousands of free books…

The Dallas ISD Career and Technical Education department, Hilltop Holdings and the Dallas Education Foundation recognized the winners of a monthslong entrepreneurship contest that took place at Dallas ISD Career Institutes. The first, second and third place winners at each of the three Career Institutes received awards and prizes for developing their own business idea, which involved creating an original product or service, coming up with a sound plan for launching the project and producing a Shark Tank-style video presentation for the judges. Hilltop Holdings, a Dallas-based financial services holding company, contacted the Dallas Education Foundation (DEF), the district’s direct…

When life gets tough for Thay Wah, a senior at Emmett J. Conrad High School, she relies on the two things she knows best: her passion for learning and the love she has for her family.  Her journey has been filled with ups and downs as she moved from Thailand to the U.S. at age 10, took on the daunting task of learning English in middle school and persevered through the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that she is ready to walk the graduation stage, she is looking ahead to how she will continue to grow at the University of Texas at…