News Briefs

Kindergarteners in J.P. Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard have written their own book, and CBS 11 has the full story. Each student in Mrs. Michelle Hodges class wrote a page and did an illustration for the book. Go here to see the CBS 11 story on the young published authors.

On March 2, schools across Dallas ISD will celebrate the late, great children’s author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel – best known as Dr. Seuss. Dallas ISD needs volunteers to participate and/or facilitate activities, storytelling, music and giveaways on this great day. Those who are interested can register to volunteer by going here.

Students from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Lincoln, Madison, Woodrow Wilson, and North Dallas high schools can apply for the State Fair of Texas’ Pete Schenkel Scholarships. Honoring its past Chairman Pete Schenkel each year, the State Fair of Texas awards multiple $6,000 college scholarships to selected applicants from Fair Park-area high schools in Dallas ISD. The application deadline is Feb. 15. Go here to learn more and apply.

Representing District 9 (South Dallas and parts of Downtown Dallas, Pleasant Grove, Deep Ellum, Uptown, and East Dallas), Bernadette Nutall was elected to the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees in December 2009. Nutall earned a Bachelor of Arts in business management from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. She received a Certificate of Competence Training Program in instructional leadership from the University of North Texas in Denton. She also attended the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 Summer Changes Everything National Conference at Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning. Nutall was a community liaison at Dallas ISD from…