Board of Trustees (Redistricting) Workshop Tuesday

Monday, August 22, 2011

Board of Trustees (Redistricting) Workshop Tuesday

Important Meeting Notices

Friday we learned that another Board Workshop on redistricting will be held on Tuesday.

I do not know what prompted this additional workshop.

Mark your calendar to attend the following important meetings this week:

1. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. –Board of Trustees (Redistricting) Workshop

           Agenda Items
   Discussion of Illustrative Maps Posted for Public Viewing

Discussion of Possible Map(s) Drawing Session to Consider and Adjust Proposed Redistricting Plans

2. Thursday, August 25, 2011 – 5:30 p.m -- Dallas ISD Board Meeting

Several important Agenda items. You may sign-up to speak - (972) 925-3720 before 5 P.M. Wednesday.

Both meetings will be held at Dallas ISD headquarters, 3700 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204.

You may access the agendas by clicking on the links below.

Board of Trustees Workshop, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. – Board Room or the Ada L. Williams Auditorium

http://sire.dallasisd.org/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=420&doctype=AGENDA

Board Meeting, Thursday, August 25, 2011 – 5:30 p.m. – Board Room or the Ada L. Williams Auditorium

http://sire.dallasisd.org/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=418&doctype=AGENDA

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

Monday, August 22, 2011

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