News Briefs

Spend the next 101 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more. Feeling Blue Three Dallas ISD schools have earned the national 2017 Blue Ribbon Schools award, one of the highest honors for a campus (see the schools). Training with Dallas Cowboys  The Dallas Cowboys Rookie Club and Essilor Vision Foundation celebrated the NFL’s PLAY 60/READ 20 initiative this week at James Bowie Elementary School (watch this). Read this Paul Dunbar Learning Center hosted a schoolwide literacy celebration on Tuesday. Scholastic donated books to…

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) launches October 1, 2017 for high school seniors. National and local reports show that students who complete the FAFSA are more likely to attend college, and the sooner they complete the application the better their chances are for receiving all eligible aid. To help build momentum around the FAFSA launch date, the district’s college access partners and high school counselors will wear green FAFSA T-shirts on Friday, Sept. 29. Students and parents can turn to these campus staff members for assistance with financial aid applications for college. There are several myths about…

Woodrow Wilson High School student Mary Holt and Amari DeFrance, a student at the Seagoville Pathways to Technology Early College High School, appeared on Good Day Texas to talk about their accomplishments as entrepreneurs. The students will compete in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship National Business Competition in October in New York City. Go here to see the full story!

Two chess clubs at Dallas ISD elementary schools are having winning ways under the direction of coach Yolanda Peña at Louise Wolff Kahn and Arcadia Park. In April, both clubs competed in the UIL chess puzzle competition. The Kahn fifth-graders took first and second place, and fourth-graders placed third and fourth. Third-graders, who were new to chess club last year, placed first, second and third. Arcadia Park’s fifth-graders placed fourth and second. A chess puzzle requires players to know the chess pieces and rules to solve chess-related problems, often finding the very best move or series of moves as a…