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HPISD Teacher Elected To State Leadership Role
HPISD seventh-grade math teacher Jean Streepey was elected to serve as vice-chair of the State Board for Educator Certification and appointed chair of the Education Preparation Program.
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Back To School Sign Up Open For HPISD
Back to school sign up for 2021-2022 is open for Highland Park ISD until 4 p.m. Aug. 6.
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Coronavirus
Are You Ready for Back to School?
As the school year approaches and health experts warily watch new, more virulent COVID variants come to the forefront, we want to ask parents: How do you feel about sending your child to school?
Greenhill Celebrates Class of 2021’s ‘Toil and Sweat’
Greenhill’s graduation ceremony didn’t go exactly as originally planned, but then again, maybe that was apropos of a year and a half where nothing really went as originally envisioned by the class of 2021.
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Sports, Band, Academics Power HPHS to 12th Lone Star Cup
Highland Park High clinched its 12th University Interscholastic League Lone Star Cup, the most in UIL history.
Work On SMU’s New Moody Hall Ready to Get Underway
Construction on the new four-story Frances Anne Moody Hall building is expected to be well underway by the end of the year.
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Coronavirus
COVID Surge Shaping Back-to-School Discussions
In less than a week, some Dallas schools will open their doors and begin welcoming students — just in time for what many health experts say could be a resurgence of COVID-19 thanks to newer, more contagious variants.
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Greenhill Student Selected as North Texas Regional Winner for Essay Challenge
Greenhill rising senior Josh Rubel was selected as the North Texas Regional Winner for the Dear Evan Hansen "You Will Be Found" essay challenge. (Read time: 1.7 minutes)
White, Jefferson, Hillcrest Graduates Celebrate Resiliency in a Hard Year
After a challenging year for graduating seniors, the prevailing theme at commencement ceremonies for Hillcrest High School, Thomas Jefferson High School, and W.T. White High School was resilience.
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Greenhill Announces 2021 Distinguished Alumni
The Greenhill School Alumni Board announced this summer that it had chosen to honor a lawyer, a novelist and scholar, and a noteworthy current alumnus who helped guide the school through a pandemic as recipients of the group’s annual alumni awards.
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W.T. White P-Tech Students May Return as Teachers
Before the school year ended, 12 W.T. White High School P-Techj students received Letters of Intent as part of Dallas ISD's effort to "grow their own" teachers.
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Retired! Donna Pierce Stars in Her Final Planetarium Show
Astronomy teacher Donna C. Pierce, wearing a periwinkle spacesuit and signature red lipstick, greeted every attendee personally before her final starry sky show in her namesake planetarium.
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In Case You Missed It
School of the Future
It may look like a game, but when students "walk" into the new Dallas Hybrid Preparatory at Stephen J. Hay this August, they'll be stepping into a responsive virtual world that mimics the feel of going to school.
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Robotics Expanding Beyond High School
Thanks to a $10,000 gift from the Park Cities Talented and Gifted (PC-TAG) parent organization, robotics in Highland Park ISD won’t be just for the high school students much longer.
Hillcrest Senior Credits School for Opening Doors
Paolaenid Rodney-Hernandez has been on the path to study neuroscience since she was in ninth grade, and has not missed a single academic or athletic opportunity that has presented itself along the way.
W.T. White Senior Excelled Academically, Athletically, and at Motherhood
Kaiyah Jones spent her senior year excelling academically, at work, at track and at motherhood.
Student Documentary Explores What It Is To Be #BlackAtSMU
Students in SMU’s Meadows School of The Arts turned five tweets shared by students using the #BlackAtSMU hashtag into a documentary.
Can You Graduate From The School Board?
In 12 years as a trustee, former school board president Jim Hitzelberger helped see Highland Park ISD through two bond elections plus facilities overhauls, rezoning, the opening of a fifth elementary school, and a global pandemic.
Student Achievements: Five To Celebrate
Collin Chon, a fifth-grader at Greenhill School, won Best of Show in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) annual Student Art Contest. This year’s theme: Everyday Heroes Ride DART.
For the First Time, And the Last Time
The graduation ceremony for Hillcrest High School started with a poignant -- and a little startling -- pronouncement by principal Joseph Sotello.