13 Apr 2007
John Eagle Dealerships to Sponsor Emmy Award-Winning Show
DALLASşuThe latest edition of Dallas Independent School District¡¯s student-hosted television show, School Zone Dallas, will air on WFAA-Channel 8, Thursday, April 19, courtesy of John Eagle Dealerships.
This multiple Emmy award-winning TV show will air at 6:30 p.m. in place of Entertainment Tonight.
Hosted from Eladio R. Martinez Learning Center in West Dallas, School Zone Dallas will take viewers inside Dallas ISD to learn more about the positive things happening throughout the school district. Stories include how students in the Marsh Middle School Leadership Cadet Corps are learning to be good citizens; how three former Skyline High School graduates have become big names in country music; how Dallas students will gain as a result of the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative; and learn just what it takes to participate in the high school mock trial competition.
Some of the district¡¯s top grads will be highlighted, as well as how Dallas is the only school district in North Texas to offer Russian as a foreign language. The program will conclude with a performance by a third grader from Phyllis Wheatley who performs a TAKS Rap.
This year¡¯s cast members include Hannah Guillory and Alvaro Ramalho, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts; Poojah Sarkar, School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center; Matthew George, Woodrow Wilson High School; Paula Teague, Skyline High School; Travon Brooks, Humanities/Communications Magnet at Lincoln High School; Jannet Ramos, W. T. White High School; Rudy Gutierrez, H. Grady Spruce High School; and Charlynda Henderson, A. Maceo Smith High School.