News Briefs

Volunteers from City Year and AT&T this week completed a service project at H. Grady Spruce High School. Volunteer helped build two outdoor classrooms and some picnic tables in the large courtyard and painted murals in the performing arts hallway. Other projects included painting bulletin boards that student groups will utilize next year to broadcast their projects, achievements and news.

On Saturday, April 30, the Adamson High School Alumni Association will hold its 16th Annual All-Class Reunion at the school from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. The program will include a number of activities for former students and friends of the school. Located at 309 E. Ninth in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, the institution is the oldest continuously-active high school in the Dallas Independent School District. The reunion program starts in the school auditorium at 1 p.m. and will include induction of outstanding graduates and faculty into the Adamson Hall of Honor and a luncheon in the new school cafeteria. Prior…

Take this time during School Library Month and nominate your school librarian for Librarian of the Year for Dallas ISD.   Each year Dallas ISD librarians promote and support reading, research, and academic excellence through lifelong learning. In support of their contributions to the district, and in partnership with the local professional organization of the Dallas Association of School Librarians and the Library and Media Services Department, please help select an outstanding librarian to represent the district as Librarian of the Year. If you wish to nominate a librarian from your campus, please use these guidelines for the nomination. The guidelines…

On Thursday, April 21, about 400 fifth-grade students from the Hillcrest Feeder Pattern representing Pershing, Dan D. Rogers, Preston Hollow, Kramer, and Anne Frank elementary schools joined together for team building activities at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The trip was partially sponsored by generous donors from around the metroplex and was designed as an opportunity to bring all the fifth-graders from across the feeder pattern to meet each other and to ease the transition from elementary school to middle school. Students took part in team-building activities with Group Dynamix, where they engaged in fun activities and were grouped with…