District To Outline Successful Strategies Used By Schools To Improve Student Performance

24 Sep 2010

Fifteen Schools Will Share Steps Taken to Elevate Them to Academically Acceptable

DALLAS—Fifteen schools will outline successful strategies used to move their school from Academically Unacceptable to Academically Acceptable during community meetings scheduled throughout the district.

In 2009, the district had 21 Academically Unacceptable schools, and each was required by the Texas Education Agency to design and implement School Improvement Plans to raise student performance at their campuses.

Fifteen schools were successful in their efforts, elevating their school to Academically Acceptable. These schools will hold community meetings to present the strategies they used to improve academic performance and detail steps planned to continue moving their school toward exemplary status.

The meetings are as follows:

• Tuesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m., H. Grady Spruce High School, 9733 Old Seagoville Rd.
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• Thursday, Sept. 30, 6 p.m., L.G. Pinkston High School, 2200 Dennison St.
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• Monday, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m., Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 6920 Meadow Rd.
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• Tuesday, Oct. 5, 5:30 p.m., Seagoville High School, 15920 Seagoville Rd.
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• Tuesday, Oct. 5, 6 p.m., J.F. Kimball High School, 3606 S. Westmoreland Rd. and F.D. Roosevelt High School, 525 Bonnie View Rd.
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• Tuesday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., E.B. Comstock Middle School, 7044 Hodde St.
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• Thursday, Oct. 7, 5:30 p.m., Seagoville Middle School, 950 Woody Rd.
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• Tuesday, Oct. 12, 6 p.m., J.N. Ervin Elementary School, 3722 Black Oak Dr.
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• Wednesday, Oct. 13, 6 p.m., O.W. Holmes Middle School, 2001 E. Kiest Blvd.
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• Wednesday, Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m., T.W. Browne Middle School, 3333 Sprague Dr. and D.A. Hulcy Middle School, 9339 S. Polk
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• Wednesday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m., Robert Hill Middle School, 505 Easton Rd.
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• Thursday, Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary School, 7000 Holly Hill Dr.
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• Thursday, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m., Frederick Douglass Elementary School, 226 N. Jim Miller Rd.

Dallas ISD previously held community meetings to develop School Improvement Plans for 14 schools rated Academically Unacceptable for 2010.