DIRECT ORY
The PTO School Directory is a special opportunity for you to showcase your business to the DIS community. If you wish to place an ad in next year’s directory, please check the PTO website for instructions and to download the contract. The deadline for submission will be 8/1/2007. Please feel free to contact Albert Chia at albertchia@ti.com for any questions .

DIRECT ORY
The PTO School Directory is a special opportunity for you to showcase your business to the DIS community. If you wish to place an ad in next year’s directory, please check the PTO website for instructions and to download the contract. The deadline for submission will be 8/1/2007. Please feel free to contact Albert Chia at albertchia@ti.com for any questions. 

Business card ads for $ 50 only
Only for DIS parents, staff and teachers.

Click on the Icon to download the contract…..

Advertiser Provides:
Digital photos (resolution 300 dpi or greater) or
camera-ready art
PDF or JPEG preferred
 (email directly to
albertchia@ti.com)
Payment must be made before printing is
authorized
Checks payable to DIS-PTO
Company/Merchant:  _______________________________________________________
Point of Contac (e-mail address)t:____________________________ _______________________________________________________
Phone: _______________________  Fax#_____________________
Address:              _______________________________________________________
City: __________        State: __________        Zip:         __________ 
 

April 11, 2007

Tracy Kozah, Public Relations Director

(Dallas) — The Dallas International School hosted its “A Passage to India” Gala and Auction, Saturday, March 31st at the Dallas World Trade Center.  Featuring Indian Fusion cuisine, sari-draped guests and Bollywood music, the event raised $200,000 that will go towards a new library software system, and academic, educational and sports equipment for the 3 year old through 12^th grade school. Each year, the multi-lingual school chooses a different country to study throughout the school year. The arts, history, and culture of the country are explored throughout all grade levels as part of the school’s mission to promote understanding of other cultures.

At the event the school’s “Prix d’Amitié” was awarded to Jean-Pierre Villain, Director General of the school’s parent organization, Mission Laïque Française, a 100 year old non- profit organization in Paris that has a network of schools around the world devoted to multilingual education. The award is given to individuals who have supported the school’s goals in providing a highly academic, multilingual education to children of all nationalities. Previous recipients have been Gilles Delfassy of Texas Instruments, James Falk of the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Arlette Douffiagues-Galland, retired Honorary Consul of France and Hubert Sagnieres of Essilor of America.

Sponsors of the event were:

Maharajah - $10,000
American Airlines, AT&T and The Honorable Will Hartnett and Tammy Cotton-Hartnett.

Rajah  - $5,000

American Eurocopter, Essilor of America, Erika and Michael McFadden, Naylor Commercial Interiors, Inc., and TLC Child Development Centers.
Guru - $3,000
Air Liquide, Capstone Underwriters, Inc., Tracy and Ghassan Kozah, Pasquinelli Portrait Homes, Rediform, Inc., and Toni & Guy.

Rishi - $1,750

Accor North America, Arlette –Douffiagues-Galland, Retired Honorary Consul of France with the Communities Foundation of Texas; The French American Chamber of Commerce, Jackson Walker, LLP, Texas Instruments, Turbomeca USA, and Elizabeth and Jeff Zucker.

Special Friends - $2,500 - Mission Laïque Française
Underwriters - Dr. Jeffrey and Marlo Caddedu, Soussan and Stone Evans. Laura and Steve Freeland, Beatriz and Harry Gray, Marilyn and Josh Naylor and Marielba and Larry Reisman.

Highest bidders, at over $12,000 each, were Laurence and Alain Mutricy and Louise and Harolde Savoy.

The Dallas International School currently has 460 students from 25 nationalities.  The school is the only multi-lingual curriculum in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex which focuses on early childhood mastery of foreign languages with advanced science and math.

The preschool children attend classes on alternating days in French and English, and one half day a week in Spanish.  Starting in 2007, at the 6th grade level, the students can choose to add Chinese to their language course load.  The upper school currently offers the prestigious French Baccalaureate Diploma and is in the process of acquiring the International Baccalaureate of Geneva Diploma Program. 

For more information about the Dallas International School Gala and programs, contact Tracy Kozah at 972.991.6379.

Do you love to talk about DIS?  The Newcomers Committee is recruiting volunteers.  You will be calling new families in August to welcome them to DIS and answer their questions.  If interested in joining this committee, please contact Sharon Mawet at  sharon.mawet@grandecom.net.

Please contact Vèronique Fally if you would like to donate any of the following items for next year’s new teachers.

Tables, Chairs, Desks, Sofas, Armchairs, Coffee tables, Lamps in working order, Vacuum cleaners in working order.

- Irons and iron boards in working order, Microwave in working order, Coffee machines in working order

A Global Test Gains Ground

The rigorous International Baccalaureate is rapidly growing in popularity in schools across the country.

May 28, 2007 issue - When people conjure up an image of Hyannis, Mass., they think: wealthy seaside resort town, home of the Kennedy compound, and they assume the local public schools are filled with rich kids. But the people who reside in the fancy houses come only in the summer. The families who live here all year long tend to be ordinary, middle-class people, many of them in service industries. The test scores coming out of area schools tend to be pretty ordinary, too…more

By STACI HUPP / The Dallas Morning News
shupp@dallasnews.com  The PTA was a popularity contest when Joy Weinstein’s youngest child started first grade two decades ago.

Women campaigned for coveted titles such as room mom, membership chairman and president.

“People would fight one another,” said Mrs. Weinstein, a Richardson mother of five. “It was like, ‘Yeah, we have 15 people who want that position.’ ”

Today’s Parent Teacher Association faces flagging numbers and a different kind of fight: Sell PTA to a new generation of parents who have little time or interest in a volunteer group known for cliques and cookie sales.

PTA membership has fallen 15 percent – almost 115,000 people – over the past decade in Texas, which traditionally has set trends for parent-teacher associations nationwide….more

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