News Briefs

Ford Motor Company Fund helped launch their Ford Driving Dreams Tour today at Molina and Spruce High School today. This is the second year of the partnership which encourages staying in school while energizing our students about their career after high school. Scholarships from the N. Texas Ford dealers fund will be administered by the Stars on the Rise program. The deadline is March 27 and students can apply at www.gdhcc.com.

Shareefah Nadfir Mason, an eighth-grade U.S. History teacher at Boude Storey Middle School, has earned The Tom and Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award from The Sons of the American Revolution. She received the award and a $300 prize during a ceremony on Jan. 10 at the Presbyterian Village North Retirement Center.   The Tom and Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award recognizes an individual whose outstanding instruction on the era of the Revolutionary War demonstrates exceptional accomplishments in the classroom. The winner receives a trip to Freedoms Foundation Summer Teacher Graduate Workshop at Valley Forge, Penn.

As part of Destination 2020, the district’s strategic plan to raise achievement, the Imagine 2020 initiative provides an additional layer of support to campuses that are expected to accelerate their level of achievement. Since its implementation, more than two years ago, the program has already seen great success in raising that level of academic achievement in feeder patterns, who for years, had been struggling to meet standard requirements. The Dallas Morning News found stories of that success around the district. Read the positive gains and feedback both students and school administrators give in the article below. LINK: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20150124-extra-teachers-tutors-pay-off-for-schools-in-dallas-isds-imagine-2020.ece