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The C.A. Tatum Jr. Elementary School Titans are celebrating Thanksgiving by fighting hunger. A canned-food drive sponsored by the school’s Character Education Club yielded 779 pounds of food recently donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Tatum Counselor and club sponsor Katrina Woods worked alongside students in their mission to help others. Thanking the students for their donation, a spokeswoman for North Texas Food Bank estimated the donation would help provide access to 649 meals for chronically hungry children, families and seniors in North Texas. The agency invites schools, individuals and community groups to get involved in the battle against…

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and this week is a great time to reinforce the GO, SLOW, WHOA message.  Have you embraced this message at home? Remember, CATCH Eat Right and Be Active! Each week the Dallas ISD Coordinated School Health initiative reminds you to check in for recipes, hints to being active and how your family can make small changes at home. This week’s tip is an easy one, get out and play! Keep moving for 60 minutes a day. Go for a run, play with friends or ride your bike! It’s that easy. Looking for more ways to help…

For today’s Throwback Thursday feature, we are taking you back down memory lane with one of our DallasISD alumni, Courtney Thomas. She is a proud graduate of the Bryan Adams High School, Class of 1984. She also attended George W. Truett Elementary School and W.H. Gaston Middle School. Her Dallas ISD pride is true because now, just 30 years later, she currently serves as a Dallas ISD principal at Thelma Richardson Elementary. Beyond the academic side of things, Principal Thomas was truly a social butterfly. As a student, she loved the social aspect of school because she met some of…