News Briefs

Magellan Healthcare, Dallas ISD’s mental health provider, has some helpful advice on how parents can reduce anxiety for them and their child. Share positive stories If a child expresses hesitancy about the upcoming year, he or she may get reassurance from one of the many age-appropriate books showing children overcoming their fears. Also, describe for your child how you once felt scared when starting something new. Explain how most children have these feelings, yet everything turns out fine. Promote resilience When saying goodbye to a young child each day, use a fun phrase or gesture you can share. Repeated use of…

With the first day of school less than 12 days away, events such as the New Teacher Academy and Mayor’s Back to School Fair are laying the groundwork for a successful school year. A look inside those events, and much more, are included in this week’s roundup of great district news. Watch the above video—or read below—to learn more! Student athletes score college scholarships Recently released data shows that Dallas ISD’s 2016 high school graduates earned an impressive amount of academic-athletic scholarships. See the amount of scholarships here. Mayor’s Back to School Fair Thousands of students and family members showed…

The Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program has given Dallas ISD high school juniors and seniors real world experience in a professional field. The Hub is spotlighting some of these Dallas ISD students participating in the program. Today, meet Daniel Akwei, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Communications Department. What is your role as an intern? As an intern with the Dallas ISD Communications Department, I mostly organize articles, news, and do research for the annual reports of schools. I also help create content for Dallas ISD’s social media pages. What do you hope to accomplish through the internship?…

Twenty soon-to-be 6th graders packed into the Dallas City of Learning Mobile Tech XPerience, the super cool retrofitted RV filled with laptop computers, 3D printers, and Lego sumo robotics. It’s DCoL Tech Day at Billy Earl Dade Middle School and we have a healthy crowd of 145 kids. It’s a good thing the MTXP is air conditioned, as August 4 in Dallas is always a scorcher. But it was the churning of ideas, the sizzling vibrations of learning opportunities that truly generated the heat during the 6-hour day. Armed with a bank of 40 DCoL laptops, these students found a…