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Dallas ISD is hiring substitute teachers for the upcoming school year to help assist with in-person and virtual virtual learning. The district is looking for candidates who have a minimum of 60 college hours or a bachelor’s degree; however, they are not required to be certified. Interested potential candidates can go here to learn more and apply. Substitute teachers will receive the health and safety training provided by the district. The pay to work as a substitute teacher is: Dallas ISD Rate  Teacher Assistant $78 Teacher Non-Degreed $85 Teacher Degreed $100 Teacher Certified $110 Retired Dallas ISD Teacher* $120 Special Education…

More than 600 Dallas ISD educators on Monday attended a webinar on “Self-Care, Healing, & Equity-Responsive Practices When the World Feels Heavy” led by Dena Simmons, Ed.D., Assistant Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. This webinar was put on by SEL Dallas, a local collective between Dallas ISD, Big Thought, Dallas Afterschool and City of Dallas Parks & Recreation.  Simmons’ keynote talk explored self-care strategies to help staff cope with isolation, uncertainty, burnout, and the collective traumas of COVID-19 and America’s reckoning with race. She also shared practices to address Black trauma and ways to be an anti-racist…

Dallas ISD is providing extra math support in July to African-American students at 17 schools to help ensure they start the 2020–2021 school year on the right foot. The students will receive personalized, interactive virtual math instruction through Imagine Math for two hours a week in July. A pre- and post-test will diagnose where the learning gaps exist and lay out a blueprint on how to ensure the student succeeds. A live tutor is built into Imagine Math, and Dallas ISD mentor teachers will work as coaches and communicate with the students. “Our data shows that we need to provide…

With the launch of its new School Finder, Dallas ISD is providing families with a more effective tool to connect with a school that best meets the educational needs of their children. SchoolFinder makes it easier for families to navigate the school choice process and better understand their options. Dallas ISD’s SchoolFinder combines all the data about the district’s 230 schools into an easy-to-navigate, bilingual website where families can research schools by grade level, proximity, academic programs, school performance and other criteria to facilitate decision making. The new SchoolFinder replaces a system that limited families to searching for schools based…