Inside Dallas ISD

The Dallas ISD Parent Services Department would like to recognize the Trustee District Champion School winners for September Attendance Awareness Month. The schools gained this recognition districtwide by maintaining the best overall attendance rate in the month of September. Throughout the month of December, each school was honored and awarded a Trustee Champion Banner. Trustee District 1 – George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Academy Trustee District 2 – Sudie L. Williams Talented and Gifted Academy Trustee District 3 – L. L. Hotchkiss Elementary Trustee District 4 – School for Talented and Gifted in Pleasant Grove Trustee District 5 – School…

Twenty years ago, Martha Mouret arrived in Texas from Mexico City, not knowing any English. In just one year, she learned English while attending Texas Tech University. She graduated with a triple major and went on to work as an assistant director in the Diversity and Community Engagement Department at Texas Tech. “I was able to see firsthand the discrepancy between the numbers of minority students in K-12 and the number of students in higher education,” she said. “Those numbers do not match. There are a lot of students, especially Hispanic students, who do not make it to college or…

It’s often said that Vickery Meadow is a melting pot of people and cultures in Dallas, and if that is so, Lee A. McShan Jr. Elementary School is a pot within a melting pot.  Students from around the world – many of them immigrants or refugees – attend the school, said fourth-grade teacher Arianna Zeb, who is helping her students learn about their heritage and envision their future. “Many families at McShan are from countries such as Burma, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, and Nepal,” Zeb said.   Zeb was recently awarded her second Innovative Teaching Grant from the Junior…

More than 800 students from 42 schools competed in the UIL A+ Middle School Hybrid Academic Competition held on December 11. The academic events included in the online competition were calculator applications, chess, dictionary skills, listening, maps-graphs-charts, math, number sense, science and social studies, and spelling.  The in-person events were oral reading, ready writing, editorial writing, modern oratory, and impromptu speaking.  Top students will receive ribbons for each event.  Ribbons will be sent via district mail. The top-performing schools from each group are listed in the chart below. The campuses that had the most students ranked first or second on…