Community Meetings at T. W. Browne Middle School and Justin F. Kimball High School

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Community Meetings at T. W. Browne Middle School and Justin F. Kimball High School

Justin F. Kimball High School - 9-8-11

District 6 parents and stakeholders joined teachers and staff at two community meetings this evening.

T. W. Browne Middle School

Principals at T.W. Browne Middle School and Justin F. Kimball High School

presented their respective School Improvement Plan (SIP) being implemented
this 2011-2012 school year.

Open House was another feature at both schools, providing the right combination for parents to learn about their children's school, teachers and the expectations for educational achievement.

Justin F. Kimball High School - 9-8-11

Community participants pledged their support to do one act every day to help students succeed academically, personally and socially.

Thanks to Principal Mary J. Fitzgibbon at T. W. Browne Middle School and Principal Leon Jones at Kimball High School.

Here's to a very good year!

Justin F. Kimball High School - 9-8-11

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, September 8, 2011

Community Meetings at T. W. Browne Middle School and Justin F. Kimball High School

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