News Briefs

Through the Visual and Performing Arts Department, elementary students are given a unique opportunity to experience world class artistic performances every year in grades 2–5. In the 2017-2018 school year, 47,589 Dallas ISD students experienced an inspiring performance and exhibit. The Elementary Experience Partners are: Dallas Children’s Theater – 2nd grade Texas Ballet Theater – 3rd grade Dallas Museum of Art – 4th grade Crow Collection of Asian Art – 4th grade Nasher Sculpture Center – 4th grade Dallas Contemporary – 4th grade Meadows Museum – 4th grade Dallas Symphony Orchestra – 5th grade Dallas Winds – 5th grade

On Monday, Oct. 1, M.B. Henderson Elementary School—along with 10 community partners from the Federal Reserve Bank and four parent volunteers from the community—joined together in the library media center to read aloud to students from books written and/or illustrated by Hispanic Americans. This yearly event organized by librarian Ms. Dowell reinforced the importance of literacy as a skill that requires mastery, as well as showcased the cultural and literary contributions of Hispanic Americans to the development of the United States. Every student, teacher, and staff member attended this schoolwide literacy event. https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2018/09/18/dallas-isd-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month/ Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15–Oct. 15.

L.V. Stockard Middle School closed out its Education Go Get It Week with a fun hallway decorating competition. The school’s sixth-grade hallways were decorated with local colleges, seventh-grade hallways with state colleges, and eight-grade with Ive League schools. The students all helped and, during the judging, came out in graduation caps and gowns to celebrate what they will be doing after high school.

Dallas ISD and Out Teach, formerly known as REAL School Gardens, celebrated the 40th school garden planted together on Friday, Sept. 28. Thanks to support from Boston Consulting Group and Sprouts, employees and volunteers came together to build the outdoor learning garden at Henry B. Gonzalez Elementary School. As a special surprise, Boston Consulting Group presented a $1,000 check to Gonzalez Elementary Principal Reymundo Cervantes.