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Watch a brief video of Arthur Kramer Elementary School’s Principal for a Day. Scott Frechette of Trane visited the school and spoke to several classes at the school during the districtwide event on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The annual event is designed to give Dallas community and business leaders a firsthand look at Dallas ISD schools from the inside.

PFAD Blog features blogs written by participants in the most recent Principal for a Day event. Guest blogger Dr. Judith Allen-Bazemore, president and CEO of Communities in Schools of the Dallas Region, shares her thoughts of the event. There are moments in your life when you are set in your routine – comforted by the sense that you know what you are doing and why. When my staffer approached me and recommended I sign up for this year’s Dallas ISD Principal for a Day Project, I did so, but not with a whole heart. Why would I? Communities In Schools is…

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