News Briefs

Stonewall Jackson Elementary School hosted a deaf education reunion on March 24 to bring together 60 years of current and former deaf education students. Deaf education students shared stories and memories at the reunion. Leading up to the reunion, the school live livestreamed its announcements on March 23 with deaf education students providing sign language, including for the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge. Watch the announcements here.

Students and staff at Dallas ISD’s Victor H. Hexter Elementary School are using mindfulness strategies to reduce and avoid conflict in the classroom. Check out the video here.

Eric Schaefer, president of Dallas-based Southwest Media Group, can measure the rapid success of his company in several ways, but one in particular is special to him and his employees. They serve as “reading buddies” for 30 minutes once a week to second-graders at Dallas ISD’s William B. Miller Elementary School. Check out the WFFA-Channel 8 story here.

Four dancers from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts have been accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School. Three Dance seniors: Luke Qualls, Eleni Loving and Jada German, along with 2018 Booker T graduate Erin Brothers, were selected to attend the arts school in New York City. About 8 percent of applicants to Juilliard are accepted each year, and the school takes a limited number of students pursing each discipline. In 2017, five of the 12 male dancers accepted into the first-year program at Julliard were Booker T. Washington students.