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Dallas ISD’s Special Education Department coordinated a free conference on Friday, April 27, to share information and resources with parents and district staff. Sessions included information about talking to your student about disabilities; teaching your student social interactions; finding support for Autism Spectrum Disorder; and understanding bilingual and special education services. Dallas ISD students who receive special ed services performed for attendees, and an exhibit showcased student artwork and projects.

Four projects from students at Dallas ISD’s Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School are finalists in the 2018 NASA Goddard OPSARC contest and need your vote to win. Their challenge was to identify a product created with NASA spinoff technology that we use in our everyday lives, then creating their own product using that technology. The top 10 projects from across the country were picked as finalists, and all four of the Dallas projects are by eighth-grade Astronomy students at Rangel. Students used online tool Glogster to create “glogs,” which are virtual, interactive graphic posters. The project that receives the…

Students from Wilmer-Hutchins, Lincoln, James Madison, and Franklin D. Roosevelt were given the opportunity to learn first-hand about Florida A&M University’s academic and extracurricular offerings through the FAMU: Next Generation Connect with Dallas ISD Day. Dallas ISD Trustee Lew Blackburn and the Dallas/Fort Worth FAMU Alumni Association hosted the event. This information session was a way of bringing the college experience to the high school level. FAMU faculty and alumni were available to provide students with information about academic qualifications for admission, prerequisites for academic programs, and professional career paths. Armed with such knowledge, students will be able to make…

The Dallas ISD Office of Racial Equity has been established to eliminate inequitable practices that inherently negatively impact student achievement. The goal of this office is the management, execution and facilitation of the programmatic ideology expressed in the Board of Trustees approved Racial, Socio-Economic and Educational Equity Resolution. Dallas ISD Office of Racial Equity hosted its inaugural meeting with School Leadership, which included Executive Directors, Principals, Instructional Coaches and Academic Facilitators. The goal of the meeting included the following: Provide opportunities for school leaders to offer input regarding goals of the Office of Racial Equity Begin the collaborative process of…