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STEAM
What Does $2,500 Buy a Dallas ISD Teacher?
As Junior League of Dallas grant winners, Grace Lloyd and Virginia Ross have earned funds for a STEM Station and robotic sensors, respectively.
Voices
Understand ADHD To Find a Path Forward For Children, Families
Throughout my career, I have witnessed many families seeking guidance about lack of focus, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in their children.
Voices
Kill Your Lawn: Help Save the Planet And Some Money, Too
Quinn Olson: Your Lawn is ugly. It just doesn’t look good, even if it was sparkling emerald, devoid of dead patches and cropped to perfection, but it probably isn’t after 2023’s unprecedented summer.
‘Small School With a Lot of Heart’
There’s a new private school in Preston Hollow. The Compass School of Texas opened its doors at the start of this school year, serving pre-K through second grade.
Bring The World Home With Explorer Box
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people fantasized about traveling to escape their quarantine life.
Area Students Named 2024 National Merit Semifinalists
People Newspapers here recognizes the many semifinalists from the schools we cover for achieving a status earned by fewer than 1% of high school seniors nationwide.
Happenings on the Hill: Kennedy Assassination Docs, Photos
Sixty years ago, nearly 800 people from all over the world sent “Dear Dallas” letters or telegrams after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Hillcrest Student Embraces Entrepreneurship and Advocacy
Zachary Moskowitz, a budding entrepreneur, has seen his role as an intern with Israel supporting and antisemitism fighting StandWithUs take on added meaning since Oct. 7.
Districts Implement Law Meant to Improve Dyslexia Services
The Beckley Wilson Act includes new requirements for dyslexia evaluation, identification, and instruction.
Ursuline Names Current Principal as Next President
Dr. Andrea Shurley will be the school's eighth president, effective July 1, 2024.
SMU Professor Talks Kennedy Assassination Memoir
Darwin Payne, who was a 26-year-old reporter at the Dallas Times Herald at the time of the president's assassination, discussed his memoir during a Nov. 16 event at SMU.
‘Chicago: Teen Edition’ Gets Star Power
A Highland Park alumna with experience performing in the Broadway revival of Chicago returned to the Park Cities to prepare students for their recent run of Chicago: Teen Edition.
Ursuline Senior Builds Homes in Costa Rica Each Thanksgiving
Ursuline Academy senior Corinne Tinker will wake up on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in Costa Rica, put on job site clothes, and then take a 30-minute bus ride to Pavas, just like she has for the last five years.
Dallas ISD Celebrates Opening of Career Institute North
The former Walnut Hill Elementary School took a direct hit from the 2019 EF3 tornado. But last week, Dallas ISD officials, including Deputy Chief Oswaldo Alvarenga and Career Institute North Director Jean Laswell, showed off what it has become: the newest home of one of the district’s four career institutes.
Intermediate School Thespians Will Bring ‘Annie Jr.’ to HPMS Stage
“You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” so “Maybe” taking in a McCulloch Fine Arts Department musical can give you one before “Tomorrow,” even if “It’s The Hard Knock Life” for you.
Happenings on the Hill
SMU chemistry professor John Buynuck and his team have received a $3.5 million, 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to design and synthesize new antibiotics to fight drug-resistant strains of bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy.
Dallas Lutheran School Awarded $100K Grant
The grant from the Hillcrest Foundation will go toward the school's Arise & Build Campaign to rebuild the campus from the October 2019 tornado.
Good Shepherd Hosts UTA Movin’ Mavs
The basketball teams are composed of men and women in wheelchairs, who visited the Episcopal school Nov. 1 and 2 to raise awareness for people with disabilities and their capabilities playing sports.
Alcuin Culinary Arts Students Prepare Meals for 70 People
Alcuin middle schoolers gather once a week to eat a meal cooked by their seventh-grade peers.
Cuban Next for New Speaker Series
National environmental correspondent David Schechter regaled Highland Park families with stories from trips made to places as far as the glaciers of Norway as he reports on climate change.