News Briefs

Asking questions has always been part of Kacinda Crump’s DNA from an early age. Today, this Skyline High School graduate (1989), is putting that natural inclination to work as a producer for the 10 p.m. newscast at FOX 4. AlumNow, the Hub feature that profiles Dallas ISD alumni, checked in with Crump for an update. What are you doing now? I’m a television news producer with KDFW-TV FOX 4. Briefly list a few of your career and/or personal highlights. Alabama Associated Press Awards Best Newscast 1998 &1999 What was your favorite subject or activity/involvement in high school? Journalism (newspaper &…

Culinary arts students at Molina High School created Christmas trees out of wire hangers and tinsel garlands, and the Oak Cliff Advocate has the full story. The trees will be used as table toppers for a PTA meeting luncheon and be donated to residents at the Villa at Mountain View nursing home. Click here to read the story from the Advocate.

In a new article for Dallas Innovates, Alan Cohen, Dallas ISD executive director for early childhood early education, talks with Angela Pittman, the previous Dallas ISD Executive Director of Special Education, about how the district is addressing teaching shortages. Specifically, the conversation touches on how Dallas ISD is partnering with the University of Texas at Dallas to train and staff speech language pathologists inside district classrooms. Click here to read the full article.

Students and teachers at two Dallas ISD elementary schools got a surprise visit from the season’s Man in Red, along with gifts of books and classroom materials on Monday, Dec. 14. Santa Claus stopped by Roger Q. Mills Elementary and H.I. Holland Elementary at Lisbon to spread cheer and – along with community volunteers – distribute the gifts to classrooms. Coordinated by the Commit! Partnership and funded by an anonymous donor, the items were distributed to 234 kindergarten-second grade teachers in the South Oak Cliff and Molina feeder patterns and ACE schools. “This donation presented to the Dallas ISD by…