Inside Dallas ISD

Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, visited the Young Women’s Leadership Academy at Rangel Middle School on March 10th in celebration of School Breakfast Week, Women’s History Month, National Nutrition Month and the Farm to School Program at Dallas ISD. Rangel Middle School student ambassadors exchanged their thoughts about the importance of school food and nutrition with the visitors from USDA. One of the students said she is very grateful to the cafeteria staff for reminding her to eat fruits and vegetables. This student also mentioned that, thanks to the exposure to new fruits and…

Dallas ISD’s Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program is a home-based home visitation program that focuses on parent-involved early learning and provides solutions that strengthen families. HIPPY aims to help parents prepare their children for success in school and beyond and empower parents as their child’s first and most influential teacher. One goal of the program is to increase father engagement by strengthening the father-child bond. Research shows that children do better when dads are involved. So, in 2020, HIPPY joined forces with Dallas ISD’s Pre-K Partnerships and All Pro Dads to broaden their approach in working…

Quick! Let me hear the speech you’d give if you’d just won an Oscar, or what you’d say if you met the president. Tell me the winning words a coach would use to rally his losing team. Answer a few questions to land the job of your dreams, or give me your best pitch for a children’s vitamin commercial. These are some of the pop challenges faced by fourth and fifth graders at  Truett Elementary School, who competed in the school’s Amazing Shake Competition on Feb. 19. “The contest places an emphasis on teaching students manners, discipline, respect and professional…

Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts won first place at the 43rd Annual Texas High School Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, March 5, at a competition held in person at the George Allen Courthouse. The win marks back-to-back championship titles for the team, as they also took home the win for the 2021 competition. The competition included more than 20 high school teams from across the state, to argue a hypothetical civil court case written by local attorneys with the Dallas Bar Association. These teams, which have emerged as the best among their school districts…