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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.”

Students at Dallas ISD’s J.J. Rhoads Learning Center were inspired and encouraged by a visit from Miss Texas Margana Wood on Thursday, May 10. She has also recently visited other district schools. Wood highlighted her anti-bullying platform by using the word “SMART” to teach students what to do when they see bullying. S is for speak up; M is for mean kids are not the cool kids; A is for apologize when you hurt someone’s feelings; R is for respecting differences; and T is for teamwork. Five teachers served as pageant contestants and answered mock interview questions, which Wood called…