Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog: District 6 Community Forum

Thursday, April 14, 2011

District 6 Community Forum - Justin F. Kimball High School

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 6:30 P.M.

Vision: Dallas ISD seeks to be a premier urban school district

Mission: Educating Students for Success

District 6

Community Forum

Hosted By

Trustee Carla Ranger

District 6 Dallas ISD Trustee Carla Ranger is hosting a community forum to inform and engage parents, teachers and community members in discussions about the impact of the state budget deficit on school district operations. The meeting will include an update on the 2008 bond program and focus on the following and other questions:

What is the potential impact of the state budget deficit on Dallas schools?
How can community members express their concerns?
When will Dallas ISD officials know if schools stand to lose teachers and staff based on the projected budget deficit?
How will district officials make decisions about cuts to staff and programs?

District 6 Community Forum

Date and Time:

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

6:30 p.m.

Justin F. Kimball High School

3606 S. Westmoreland Road • Dallas, TX 75233

Please contact 972-925-3700 for additional information

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

Thursday, April 14, 2011

District 6 Community Forum - Justin F. Kimball High School

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