News Briefs

NFL Play Football and New Era Cap Co. donated $10,000 to the Sunset High School football program! Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb surprised the football program with the news during a March 8 Zoom call. The donation is part of a larger effort between the NFL and New Era Cap to support the youth football community throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. “This will ultimately help elevate all of you next season,” Lamb told the Sunset football players. “I’m pulling for you guys and I’m excited for what this will do for your team.” Sunset High School Football Coach O.J. Abanishe…

The America’s Language Working Group recognized Walnut Hill Elementary for their exceptional language-learning programs. The school teaches Mandarin Chinese to all their students and offers programs to develop bilingualism and biliteracy in English and in Spanish. The organization added Walnut Hill Elementary to their Guide To Exemplary Programs & Practices In U.S. Language Education, which  identifies exemplary programs that support language education and increase access to more effective learning. “There’s a tradition of teachers who stay here and get better at their craft, and work every year to refine and improve our language programs,”  Walnut Hill Elementary Principal Phillip Potter…

Parents of students at Franklin D. Roosevelt and O.W. Holmes Classical Academy are urged to attend a virtual parent meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, to discuss plans to relocate Roosevelt students to the Holmes campus to safeguard students and facilitate construction on the Roosevelt campus. Building crews are at work on a $61.7 million renovation at Roosevelt, with the goal of substantially completing the work in time for students to occupy the building next August. Plans for the temporary move were prompted by the pandemic, the recent snowstorm and other unforeseen circumstances that have affected the construction timeline.…

T.G. Terry, Adelle Turner and Martin Weiss elementary schools are considering adopting an alternative calendar to help ensure students don’t fall too far behind because of the pandemic. They are among the 42 Dallas ISD schools considering adopting an “intersession” calendar, which would extend the school year to start at the beginning of August and end in late June. Click here to see a list of schools considering the intersession calendar. This would create time for five additional intersession weeks spread throughout the year. During the intersession weeks, select students will have opportunities for more personalized attention in smaller groups,…