News Briefs

WFAA ran a great story on the Solar Preparatory School for Girls, a single-gender choice school opening this year. The school will be a socioeconomic and racially-diverse school campus, said Mike Koprowski, chief of transformation and innovation. Led by Principal Nancy Bernardino, the campus will open in August to nearly 200 female scholars in grades K-2 and will add one grade level, each year through eighth-grade. Go here for the full story.

About 40 interns from Protiviti, a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For award-winner, spent a recent afternoon painting walls at George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School. Protiviti has plans to return to support the campus in reading activities this school year.

The Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program gives 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 Taylor Griffin, a student at Skyline High School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Summer Learning and Extended Day Service Department. What is your role as an intern? To provide a helping hand to the summer learning and extended day services program. What do you hope to accomplish through the internship? I want to know more about the business environment and whether it’s for…

For the second consecutive year, Dallas Independent School District partnered with the Annette Caldwell Simmons School at Southern Methodist University (SMU) to provide targeted professional development academies and courses for district teachers. The academies were tiered to support specific teacher needs based on each teacher’s most recent Teacher Excellence Initiative evaluation. The partnership’s goal is to improve district teachers’ classroom instruction. Led by SMU professors, the academies and courses were designed to strengthen teachers’ understanding of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and incorporated effective use of lesson objectives, demonstrations of learning, purposeful and aligned instruction, and the use of…