News Briefs

The Dallas ISD Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Department has put out its first department newsletter, and it’s great! The newsletter, which you can see in full here, covers STEM Summer Camps, the Math Olympiad, the district science fair, robotics competition, and much more. Here’s what the front page looks like: The STEM Department will produce a newsletter next August and December. For more information on the STEM Department, go here.

Reminder: The Rotary Club of Dallas is accepting nominations for its annual Service Above Self Awards through April 15. The awards recognize teachers who strive to make a positive difference in the lives of others and who go above and beyond the call of duty. Teachers may self-nominate, and community members may nominate deserving teachers. Winners will share in more than $10,000 in cash awards to be presented at the organization’s Aug. 3 awards luncheon. Go here for more information, and go here for the application.

The Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Big “D” Band will host its annual Elegant Evening of Jazz, Saturday, April 16, as a gift to the community. The event will feature Townview’s award-winning Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensembles I and the Dean’s Latest Project (DLP) Combo. The jazz bands are under the direction of Dean Hill. An inspirational teacher and motivator, he has long fostered development of young musical talent within the Dallas community. In helping lead the performance bands, Hill is joined by one of his former student’s, Carlisa Washington. Hill contests jazz as an art is not as popular, as it once had…

Students from four Dallas ISD schools had a hand in piecing together a mosaic art sculpture to be on display in the Bishop Arts District. For their creative efforts, CW 33 featured the story as a Class Act segment. Schools that were represented in the art project were from: Sunset High School, W.H. Adamson High School,  Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School. Check out how these students were “Class Acts” in the full story here.