Friday, June 13, 2008
Dallas Town Hall meetings scheduled
The community is invited to participate in town hall meetings scheduled next week at three Dallas schools that may be rated Academically Unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency for the fourth consecutive year.
The schools that may be rated Academically Unacceptable are H. Grady Spruce High School, W.W. Samuell High School and E.B. Comstock Middle School.
A rating of Academically Unacceptable indicates that the campus did not meet state passing standards on defined indicators including TAKS passing rate, dropout rate and/or graduation rate.
As a result of this rating, the district is required to submit a contingency plan to the Texas Education Agency that provides details on how the district will improve the learning conditions at the campus and maintain compliance with the state mandate.
The district will host meetings for parents/guardians, students, staff and community members to provide information about the contingency plans and gather input about those plans.
The meetings will be held as follows:
- Tuesday, June 17 - Spruce High School Auditorium - 6:30 p.m. - 9733 Old Seagoville Road
- Wednesday, June 18 - Samuell High School Auditorium - 6:30 p.m. - 8928 Palisade Drive
- Thursday, June 19 - Comstock Middle School Auditorium 6:30 p.m. - 7044 Hodde Street
Source: Dallas ISD
Bill Betzen, says:
All three of these schools should start Archive Projects. This is a project to focus students onto their own futures and their plans for that future. It is a simple 10-year time-capsule and class reunion project wherein students write letters to themselves documenting their pasts and their plans for the future. These letters are placed into a 350-pound vault bolted to the floor of each schools lobby. In the middle school this will be for the 8th graders to place a letter in before they go on to high school. In high schools this will be for seniors who will write letters before graduation for the vault. The letters stay in the vault until the class 10-year reunion. At that reunion volunteers are solicited to speak with the current students in the school about their recommendations for success. Would they do anything differently if they were 13 again? See project details at www.studentmotivation.org
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Bill Betzen, says:
I forgot to mention that at Quintanilla we have used this project now for 4 years. The 10th grade classes at the two high schools our students attend are now over 10% larger than they were before we started this project in 2005. It costs almost nothing, is popular with both students and teachers, and it appears to make a significant difference.
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