News Briefs

PFAD Blog features blogs written by participants in the most recent Principal for a Day event. Guest blogger Miranda Bond, a manager for the Patient Assistance Office, shares her thoughts from this year’s event. Having heard about Principal for a Day before, but regretfully missing the deadline to apply in previous years, when I read the post about Dallas ISD’s Principal for a Day Program 2015, I risked blindness while squinting to complete the application on my cell phone. I would not miss out again this year. As a Dallas transplant, when I moved here from Oklahoma nine years ago, I…

WFAA 8 reported on the district’s effort to get younger students to speak in complete sentences. Research shows that by six years old, the oral language skills of a child from a low-income family is often far behind a child from a middle- or upper-income family. Alan Cohen, who oversees early childhood education for the district, said that encouraging young students to speak in in complete sentences is part of a larger effort to close that achievement gap. Click here to view the WFAA report. Photo courtesy WFAA

Dallas ISD and the Dallas community are encouraged to rally behind Bryan Adams High School Football Coach Hank Willis and Cougar football player Nathan Stewart in online contests today. WFAA 8 has a poll for Player of the Week every week during football season. Stewart, a Bryan Adams wide receiver who hauled in seven catches, 231 yards and two touchdowns in Week 7, is in the running for Player of the Week. Voting ends at 1 p.m. today. You can vote here. Meanwhile, Bryan Adams football Coach Hank Willis is competing for the Dallas Cowboys/Whataburger Coach of the Week against…

Today’s episode of Ed Talk with Dr. Bob Bravo talks about how Dallas ISD schools can form partnerships with the community and involve volunteers with school activities. Dr. Robert Bravo, the Dallas ISD Chief of School Leadership, talks with Tom Hayden and Imelda Alcala of the Dallas ISD Volunteer and Partnership Services department about the benefits of volunteering with the district. The discussion also goes through what steps a school needs to take to get connected with helpful volunteers. Click here to listen to the podcast.