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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…

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 Galilea Hernandez, a student at Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Summer Learning and Extended Day Service Department. What is your role as an intern? I assist with the departmental organization for the summer program that is taking place, draft agendas for meetings, as well as help with the organizations of Excel documents and other small tasks that I am asked…

Eleven graduating seniors received a total of $10,000 in scholarships from the Metropolitan Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Through a lengthly application process, recipients were awarded based on academic merit and need. During the celebration honoring the graduates across Dallas County, students received scholarship monies to go to the college of their choice. The top recipients were awarded $1,500. To read more about the event, read an article written by the Dallas Examiner on the scholarship ceremony here.

Recent Emmett J. Conrad High School graduate, David Kapuku, earned his spot as the 2016 salutatorian, but not without challenges to adjusting to life in a new country. Hear his story of academic achievement, which led him to being accepted to the University of Texas at Austin. He plans to study petroleum engineering in the fall. LINK:  For This Student, The Road From Africa Leads To Austin