By: Dallas ISD Trustee Joyce Foreman
Schools in the southwest quadrant of Dallas ISD are often recognized for their stellar basketball, football and track and field programs. But, thanks to a wave of high-performing student-athletes, District 6 is on the map in wrestling too. The Kimball High School boys wrestling team won the recent District Wrestling Championship and the following students competed in the State Wrestling tournament in Cypress, Texas:
- Destiny Miles, Justin F. Kimball HS
- Ki’Aundra Green, Justin F. Kimball HS
- Frederick Hardy, David W. Carter HS
- Dominique Ford, Justin F. Kimball HS
From the mat to the court, District 6 student-athletes are making big moves –Â Nothing shapes character and sportsmanship like healthy competition among peers. After a competitive game against Long Middle School, the Atwell Archers won the Dallas ISD Middle School Boys City Basketball Championship. These middle school ballers signal a bright road ahead for the high school teams in District 6. And I eagerly look forward to future wins both on and off the court.
Success beyond the courts and fields is a primary objective for Dallas ISD athletic programs – Coaches, teachers and parents partner across the district to ensure that athletic involvement complements each student’s education. I’m always encouraged to see the results of this type of collaboration in District 6 in students like Dayanara Chavez, a senior at Justin F. Kimball High School. Chavez is one of the five student-athletes in the district to win a $10,000 college scholarship from the Nancy Lieberman Charities. She will be honored at Nancy Lieberman’s 2019 Dream Ball Gala where Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Ice Cube will be the keynote guest.
Student-athletes aren’t the only ones benefiting from generous partners in education – The students at two District 6 schools are set to enjoy new classroom libraries, thanks to The Corporate Alliance Resource Exchange (CARE), an alliance of diverse North Texas corporations with a shared goal of creating greater community impact by combining funds, volunteers and other resources. Forty-seven hundred dollars were donated to provide more than 900 books to R. L. Thornton Elementary School, creating robust classroom libraries for the third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classrooms. Volunteers from the organizations also “refreshed” the school library by giving it a fresh coat of paint and worked with teachers to sort the books into bins for their classroom libraries.
At Barbara Jordan Elementary School, $4,200 were donated to purchase books for K-5 classroom libraries, totaling more than 1,200 books. The donated funds were also used to create a fairytale-themed reading area in the school library, complete with reading thrones, a beanstalk table, and a dragon-covered display case.
Read For Me – Finally, I’d like to encourage families to attend Read For Me, a free, interactive literacy event for all grade levels featuring activities, authors, guest speakers, and more. The fun-filled event will be Saturday, March 23 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at W.H. Adamson High School.
Learn more and register at:Â www.dallasisd.org/readforme.
