Community of concerned citizens, parents and staff come out for Kimball Knights

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Community of concerned citizens, parents and staff come out for Kimball Knights

Thanks to the community of concerned citizens, parents and staff who attended the discussion at Justin F. Kimball High School this evening. Thank you for coming out on very short notice and showing that you care.

Dallas ISD administrators described the proposed instructional program, which includes:

9th Grade Academy
Science,Engineering and Math
Informational Technology
Partner: Texas Instruments
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Magnet Satellite)

There were numerous thoughtful questions. The audience was both anxious and patient as they listened to answers.

Staff stressed the importance of parent and community support, involvement and volunteers --all welcome and needed in schools at any academic level.

Gratitude to Dallas ISD administration for community meeting arrangements and presentation.

We all appreciated being greeted by the PTA and directed by the ROTC.

Finally, our thanks to interim principal Earl Jones, teachers and staff for the kind Kimball hospitality which contributed to this successful community meeting.

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, January 12, 2010

Community of concerned citizens, parents and staff come out for Kimball Knights

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