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During the past week, officials from Dallas ISD’s Food and Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) visited five schools to present the department’s top honor to deserving cafeteria staff. The Heart of Child Nutrition Award is given to campus FCNS employees who go above and beyond the lunch line to positively impact their schools. This year’s winners are Solar Preparatory School for Girls, Seagoville Elementary School, Thomas Jefferson High School, Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School; and Everette L. DeGolyer Elementary School. At Thomas Jefferson, FCNS executive director Michael Rosenberger presented a certificate and trophy to the cafeteria staff, and the department…

The annual Dallas ISD Districtwide Chess Tournament on Saturday, May 5, brought together the best chess players among the more than 2,200 students enrolled in the districtwide chess program. There were 461 participating students from 17 high schools, 28 middle schools and 86 elementary schools. Only the top four players from each participating school were eligible to compete in the districtwide tournament. The winners are listed below. High School Individual Gold Medalists • Kristina Badrak, School of Business and Management • Zach Emery, School of Business and Management High School Team Winners • First, Sunset High School • Second, Woodrow…

Often, sports can carry a bigger purpose than what happens on the court or field. That’s the case this year when Spence Coach Scott Brothers’ futsal team dedicated its Disney Scholastic Futsal Tournament to his wife Diana, who is battling breast cancer. To show their support for Diana Brothers, the sixth-grade girls wore pink socks with their uniforms. And they won the futsal tournament in early March, going 4-0. Futsal is a modified form of soccer played with five players per side on a smaller indoor field. https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2018/03/19/two-dallas-isd-teams-heading-to-futsal-championships-this-summer/ Many of these girls will be going to North Dallas in a few years,…

The W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy boys baseball team are the middle school district champs! The Greiner team beat J.L. Long Middle School in the final. “This team would come to practice and work hard every day. We would work on mistakes we had made in the previous game in order to prepare us for the next game,” said Coach Wayne Pridgett. “The team understood that we all must be prepared and working together as a team, so they would put in the hard work every practice.”