District 6 Recognized and Exemplary Schools

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

District 6 Recognized and Exemplary Schools

Birdie Alexander Elementary School did an outstanding job this year as they moved from Academically Unacceptable to Recognized status. Administrators, teachers, staff, and students came through with flying colors.

In addition, Adelle Turner Elementary School’s ranking moved past Recognized to earn the TEA designation of Exemplary.

Last year, no District 6 schools earned the Exemplary ranking; this year five achieved the top state ranking.

Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy (KGCA) achieved the Exemplary ranking in its first full year of operation.

Schools from District 6 making the exemplary list are:

•Jimmie Tyler Brashear
•Ronald E. McNair
•Erasmo Seguin
•Adelle Turner
•Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy (KGCA) (formerly Early College High School At Cedar Valley College)

District 6 recognized schools are:

•Birdie Alexander
•Leila P. Cowart
•Thomas L. Marsalis
•Maria Moreno
•Clinton P. Russell
•Leslie A. Stemmons
•T. G. Terry
•Thomas Tolbert
•Mark Twain
•Martin Weiss

Congratulations to these schools on their academic success.

Thanks to the Principals, teachers, staffs and students of all District 6 schools for their dedication and commitment to academic achievement.

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

District 6 Recognized and Exemplary Schools

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