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In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week happening May 4–8, Dallas ISD educators can enjoy free bottomless coffee, discounts on shoes, and a free month-long fitness boot camp. Designer Shoe Warehouse is offering 20 percent off regular priced items and 10 percent off clearance items for Dallas ISD teachers. The offer is going on today, May 5, from 4–9 p.m. DSW is located at Prestonwood Town Center, 5301 Belt Line Road, and DSW Preston Center Pavilion, 8335 Westchester Drive. Camp Gladiator, an outdoor fitness company, is offering teachers a free four-week adult fitness boot camp. The boot camp “promises a motivating…

Tim Brown, an NFL Hall of Famer and Woodrow Wilson alum, is hosting the 2015 Tim Brown/Woodrow Wilson Golf Tournament benefitting the Woodrow Wilson High School Athletics Program. The event is set to open at 11 a.m. today at the Tenison Park Highlands Course and is open to individuals, teams or groups competing in four-person Florida Scramble. The $200 entry fee covers cart fees, range balls, lunch, refreshments and prizes, a chance at a $10,000 hole-in-one contest, and an awards reception and auction. Enter online at http://timbrowntourney.eventzilla.net/. For more information, contact Chris Kurzner at 214-442-0801 or Emily Whitzel  at 214-695-1716…

WFAA 8 did a report on the interest being shown in the two new Dallas ISD Choice Schools. Students can apply to attend either D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle School or the Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy High School. The application period is open from April 24–May 15. Click here to view the WFAA 8 report. Click here to learn more and apply to a Choice School. Photo courtesy WFAA 8

Bryan Adams student Guadalupe Serrato wrote this article. Dominique Nicole James this week became the first ever Bryan Adams High School student to be awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to 1,000 students nationwide each year and will cover her entire tuition at any university in which she is accepted. “I set myself up to be prepared in case I didn’t get it, so I was totally surprised when I learned that I had been awarded the scholarship,”James said. James is involved in multiple extracurricular activities at Bryan Adams, including serving as the Bryan Adams Belles Drill Team…