Catholic schools to close for rally
Dallas Diocese giving students, teachers a day to lobby for vouchers
09:04 AM CST on Wednesday, December 20, 2006By JOSHUA BENTON / The Dallas Morning News Dallas Catholic school students will get a day off Feb. 7 – and not for an early Ash Wednesday.
Schools will shut down so students and teachers can go to Austin for a rally in favor of school vouchers, which use public dollars to send students to private and religious schools. Other Catholic schools around the state are joining the effort.
After all the presents are opened and half the toys don’t work anymore and you are wondering what to do to keep them happy…Take em on the train…We will be running on our regular 1 P.M. Grapevine departure times and the 3:30 P.M.departure times for the Trinity River Run Tuesday the 26th. Tickets for Tuesday the 26 can be ordered on the Special Events Page
Tickets for Wednesday - Sunday can be ordered on the Schedule and Rates Page
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The Grapevine Vintage Railroad travels along the historic Cotton Belt Route between Grapevine and the Fort Worth Stockyards. The Railroad is serviced by two vintage locomotives which include “Puffy” the 1896 Steam locomotive and oldest continously operating steam engine in the South, and a 1953 GP-7 diesel locomotive. Passengers enjoy riding in authentic 1920s and 1930s Victorian - style coaches as they take a step back in time and experience train travel as it was in the glory days of the expanding West. Pull into the Fort Worth Stockyards Station and you’ll be right in the middle of the Stockyards National Historic District where the Old West comes alive. Have fun at this outstanding retail and entertainment district.
The train runs: September - December Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There will not be regular train service the first three Fridays in December due to the Public School North Pole Express. 12/1, 12/8, 12/15. The train is closed 12/24 and 12/25 for the holidays.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that American kids are watching too much TV. The AAP recommends that parents limit screen time (including computer, video game, and TV use) to no more than an hour or two of quality programming daily. But if your child is flopped in front of the tube for hours every day, cutting back might seem like a monumental task.
To find out more about how much TV kids are really watching and what stands in parents’ way of enforcing TV rules, researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, RTI International, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) interviewed 180 kids and their parents in 2004…more
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Using elastic cords to suspend a backpack from a rigid frame reduces the energy needed to carry the load, easing the stress on shoulders and joints, its developer reports in the journal Nature this week.
A conventional backpack is attached tightly to the wearer’s body, and therefore moves up and down with the walker’s footsteps.
Dr. Lawrence C. Rome of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, designed a backpack that’s suspended on a frame by bungee cords. This allows the backpack to remain in a fairly constant position instead of moving up and down while the wearer walks or runs…more
Oakville, Ontario (PRWEB) December 18, 2006 — Enrollment is now open for international soccer camp programs offering professional soccer training and cultural immersion in six European countries for students 10 to 19 years old. Students experience foreign culture and learn languages while training with internationally renowned coaching staff in camps offered by EduKick, a leading soccer camp touring company.
Soccer camp students are matched with coaching staff from teams in their host country. “In France we’re associated with the professional coaching staff of Michel Hidalgo, former French National Team head coach,” said Joseph Bilotta, EduKick vice president, “In Spain our directors are the family of the current coach of the Spanish National Team, Luis Aragones and in England our summer soccer camp is hosted by the Bolton Wanderers Football Club….”
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Earlier is Better
Do You Want Your Children To Learn a Second Language? Start Them Before Puberty!
BY LINDA FOUST
© COPYRIGHT 2003 BY PARENTS’ PRESS
These stages provide an example of how students acquire a new language, however, it is important to keep in mind that different children may enter school at different stages, and that all children may not pass through all stages at the same rate or even in the same sequence. Regardless of how your student progresses through these stages, your continued support and encouragement will help him or her with the very difficult task of learning a new language. …more
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com
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| SHEILA GRADY/Special to The Acorn STATE OF THE ART—Teachers from Las Virgenes Unified School District are learning the ropes of new technology for their classrooms. The multimedia projection systems will connect classrooms to the outside world and will revolutionize the way subjects are taught to students. |
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In the form of technology, new life is taking hold in classrooms in the Las Virgenes Unified School District.
Greg Bostrom’s seventh-grade science class at A.E. Wright Middle School is a model of how technology is changing education. Bostrom’s students have the ability to see video clips of an actual beating heart with a new multimedia projection system that broadcasts Internet video onto an overhead screen.
“(Students) see the action of the valve and the heart, the blood flowing through chambers,” Bostrom said.
Seeing the living organ on the screen is just half the story. The new subwoofer speaker system installed in Bostrom’s classroom allows students to feel the vibrations of the beating heart.
Bostrom said the system’s remote control allows him to interact with students rather than being stuck at the front of the classroom.
The feature is especially helpful for English language learners and special education students, he said. “I literally look over their shoulder,” Bostrom said. The remote clicker gives him the ability to move around the room, allowing for better pacing of instruction and more efficient classroom management, he added.
The new multimedia projection systems are being rolled out in classrooms at every school in the district, said Donald Zimring, deputy superintendent. Within two years, every classroom at every school will be hightech, and teachers will be trained to customize lessons according to needs, curriculum and interests…more
Cynthia Liu
Friday, March 11, 2005
If you are what you eat, the students at the International School of the Peninsula in Palo Alto are truly multicultural. With around 480 students from about two dozen countries of origin, the school, which offers immersion programs in Chinese and French, puts a strong focus on expanding the palates of the children, as well as their minds.
This year the school has begun an innovative lunch program that offers a choice of Asian or Western menus daily. The menu rotation is repeated every three weeks, but each day, one of the two menus is vegetarian. Fish is surprisingly popular, and the students’ favorite preparations include lemon sauce fish, salmon teriyaki and poached sole with spinach…more
2006 GRADUATING ALUMNI
This year sixty-four International School of the Peninsula alumni graduated from their respective high schools. It’s hard to believe it’s been at least four years since we last saw them walk the halls of our school. To the right is a list of alumni and the universities that they will be attending. If you know of a member of the class of 2006 who is not listed, please encourage them to visit our alumni website at: www.istp.org/alumni to update their information.
San Jose State University
Stanford University
University of Colorado
Georgetown
Trinity University
University of British Colombia
UC Santa Cruz
UC Berkeley
University of Puget Sound
Hampshire College
University of Iowa
Willamette University
McGill University
Lewis & Clark College
John Hopkins University
UC Santa Barbara
UC Los Angeles
Humboldt State University
UC Davis
MBA Institute
Silton Sonoma State University
Duke Univers
Welcome to France
Interview with Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States
Jean-David Levitte is the French Ambassador to the U.S. since December 2002. Read More…
By Tracy Kozah
Dallas International School opened its doors to grandparents, aunts, uncles and other special friends of its students Nov. 21 in
celebration of Thanksgiving. The event took place when many people would be in town visiting their families.
Visitors to the school attended classes and experienced first-hand the multilingual teaching at the school…..more
Also Online Video: Circus kids
12:35 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 17, 2006
By NANCY CHURNIN / The Dallas Morning News What does it take to swing on a trapeze, contort your feet over your head and spin plates on sticks? For five good friends, it took more than three years of circus training apiece. Considering that the oldest girl is 13, that’s a good chunk of their lives!
Now, the girls will show their skills at Vive Le Cirque on Saturday at the Granville Arts Center in Garland. “I think it will really amaze people, because they don’t see this every day,” says Emmanuella Mascolo, 11, who will do contortion in one act and spin in the air with Meghane Poulet, 11, in another. ..more
By Paul Culp
When the regular school day ends, the learning doesn’t stop at Dallas International School, a private multilingual school for students in pre-kindergarten through high school. The school is located off Preston Road on Churchill Way in North Dallas. During school hours the students are taught in French, English and Spanish all the academic subjects for advancement to higher education. It even prepares its students to earn the French Baccalaureate diploma. About half the students are from French families living in Dallas. After school, the learning continues in a fun way. From 4 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, students can select instruction in chess, fencing, yoga, circus acrobatics, magic, piano, art, pottery, acrobatics, Kung Fu and many others. Each of the activities is designed to enhance the child’s development in many ways. Abou 200 students of the school’s 435 children chose to attend these classes. The instructors are all experts in their field…more
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — For one group of graduate business students at Yale, next month’s lessons will take place on pineapple, banana and coffee plantations in Costa Rica. Other Master of Business Administration students are checking out investment prospects in Tanzania and what’s sizzling in Singapore.
Yale this year became the first major university to require its MBA students to study abroad. The Ivy League school also replaced finance and marketing courses that have been the mainstay of business education for 50 years with courses structured to mimic the way business managers operate. “We are at the beginning of what over the next five years will be tremendous change in business education,” said Joel M. Podolny, dean of Yale’s School of Management…more
By CLAUDIA WALLIS, SONJA STEPTOE
“…This public elementary school has taken the idea of global education and run with it. All students take some classes in either Japanese or Spanish. Other subjects are taught in English, but the content has an international flavor. The school pulls its 393 students from the surrounding highly diverse neighborhood and by lottery from other parts of the city. Generally, its scores on state tests are at or above average, although those exams barely scratch the surface of what Stanford students learn.
Before opening the school seven years ago, principal Karen Kodama surveyed 1,500 business leaders on which languages to teach (plans for Mandarin were dropped for lack of classroom space) and which skills and disciplines. “No. 1 was technology,” she recalls. Even first-graders at Stanford begin to use PowerPoint and Internet tools. “Exposure to world cultures was also an important trait cited by the executives,” says Kodama, so that instead of circling back to the Pilgrims and Indians every autumn, children at Stanford do social-studies units on Asia, Africa, Australia, Mexico and South America. Students actively apply the lessons in foreign language and culture by video-conferencing with sister schools in Japan, Africa and Mexico, by exchanging messages, gifts and joining in charity projects…more“
Based on the award-winning Classical Kids recording, this concert tells the story of young Christoph and the”madman” who lives upstairs. Beethoven’s music is magically woven into drama as two actors share incidents from the composer’s life. Selections include Moonlight Sonata, Für Elise, the Fifth and Ninth Symphonies and music Beethoven wrote especially for children. Danail Rachev, conductor When: Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.
Where: Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center ,
2301 Flora Street, Dallas
Cost: $18 - $99
Age limit: All ages
Interactive Online Versions
The Student Assessment Division has developed online versions of the released TAKS™, exit-level TAAS™ tests, end-of-course examinations, 2006 RPTE tests, and the 2005 SDAA II™ tests. In the development of the online tests, every effort was made to ensure that each test question is identical to the test questions in the printed test booklets. Slight differences in formatting and appearance are possible depending on the configuration of your computer and browser. To properly view and evaluate the test you need a browser version 4.0 or later. If you are using such browser and still receive an error message, you need to enable your JavaScript. You will also need to disable any pop-up blocker you may have in place as the scoring function uses a pop-up window.
The results of the online versions of the released tests and end-of-course examinations are intended for personal use only. TEA will not collect or use the scores from the online versions of the released tests for any purpose. The scores received on these tests are NOT official test scores. Meeting minimum expectations on TAAS and Met Standard or Commended Performance on TAKS does NOT satisfy the requirements set forth in Texas Education Code, Chapter 39, Subchapter B or the exit level requirements for a high school diploma in Section 39.025.
The Student Assessment Division has worked on making the online versions of the released tests and end-of-course examinations accessible to the visually-impaired. The reading and writing portions of the online released tests have embedded descriptive links that connect to a text file for each reading passage and an html file for each writing passage. Similar enhancements have been added for the mathematics, social studies, and science tests and the end-of-course examinations.
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A BIG Dallas International School Welcome to all the new families who have joined us since the beginning of the 2006 school year.
Dubois Family
Sakouhi Family
Doherty Family
El Markhi Family
Scaillet Family
Baumann Family
Castellanos Family
Le Gaudiet Family
Batteux Family
Lung Family
Martinez Family
Russel Family
Baudon de Mony Family
Pathak Family
Reyes Family
Soong Family
Trochu Family
Gaston Family
Keyaerts Family
Di Tecco Family
Danforth Family
Jacques Family
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Thank You for all your hard work ladies!
