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From teaching about diseases and holding health screenings to helping get gum out of students’ hair, César Chávez Learning Center school nurse Heidi Frumkin does it all. Frumkin says she loves the diversity of what she does for work every day. “I also really love my coworkers, we pull together and help each other,” Frumkin said. “This really is a great place to work.”

Twenty clinical teachers in Dallas ISD toured multiple schools to see for themselves why they should work for the innovative school district. Clinical teachers, also known as student teachers, are educators-in-training in Dallas ISD who are getting their teacher certifications from different programs. Clinical teachers go to a Dallas ISD school and work with a mentor teacher to get in-classroom experience. “Our goal is for the high-quality clinical teachers to then become teachers in Dallas ISD,” said Jill Peeples, Dallas ISD coordinator of clinical teaching. The clinical teachers visited Francisco “Pancho” Medrano Middle School, where they learned about social and…

Harry Stone Montessori students got acquainted with a moody oasis, powerful ocean, the earth from space, living plants, and a colorful pumpkin patch thanks to a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum. All elementary students attended the field trip on Oct. 18, and Principal Niki Jones called it an eye-opening experience for students and teachers alike. “I think it was life changing because the students expressed their desire to have more outdoor learning opportunities,” Jones said. “Our goal with both our school’s Montessori and International Baccalaureate programs are to develop global students that are prepared to engage in the world.…

The Dallas Morning News ran a great story over the weekend about how family and community engagement at Robert T. Hill Middle School are making great thing happen. More and more families are embracing the school, which has a STEM program, among other offerings. As the Dallas Morning News points out, the school has “also added more courses for the general student population, such as Spanish, algebra and astronomy. And it introduced a program to help underrepresented high school students get into college.” Read the full Dallas Morning News story here.