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Dallas ISD is recruiting qualified teachers from Oklahoma City to join our team. OKC’s News 9 spoke with Meredyth Hudson, executive director of Human Capital Management, on why our efforts will benefit Dallas ISD students. LINK: http://www.news9.com/story/31953099/dallas-schools-recruiting-oklahoma-teachers 

This week, Dallas ISD cafeterias have celebrated Fresh Attitude Week by serving a new fresh fruit or vegetable each day and celebrating a daily theme. On Thursday, May 12, Wilmer-Hutchins High School students had the chance to eat an award-winning menu created by culinary arts students Paloma Quiroga and Jeremy Tezano. The chicken parmesan sandwich, Texas green beans and grape tomatoes with banana dipped bites was the winning combination for the students in the recent Cooking up Change Dallas competition, which advances them to the June 6 national contest in Washington, D.C. Wilmer-Hutchins culinary arts students helped prepare and serve…

More than 1,000 teacher candidates came to Conrad High School this past Saturday to meet with elementary, middle and high school principals in the hopes of joining Dallas ISD. Taylon Owens from Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy greeted elementary candidates in the morning. Conrad High School’s own robotics team, the #3005 Robochargers, spoke to elementary and secondary candidates about their experience at the Robotics World Championships just a few weeks ago where they placed second in their division. A few afternoon teacher prospects even got the chance to try and catch a ball tossed by the team’s practice robot.

Talley Dunn Gallery was the perfect setting to showcase some of the student artwork from Young Women’s Preparatory Network’s (YWPN) Respect Starts Here—Listen, Learn and Act (RSH) program on May 4. The two art exhibitions at the gallery coincidentally featured female artists: Natasha Bowdoin’s “Spelboken” and Linda Ridgway’s “With or Without.” Donors, supporters and students attended while enjoying light bites and beverages. Some of those in attendance included Sally Posey (she and her husband Lee Posey founded YWPN), Claire and Dwight Emanuelson, Joyce and Larry Lacerte, Laura Estrada, Trustee Bernadette Nutall, Margaret Keliher, Beth Thoele, Emy Lou Baldridge, Tierney Kaufman…