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Representing District 9 (South Dallas and parts of Downtown Dallas, Pleasant Grove, Deep Ellum, Uptown, and East Dallas), Bernadette Nutall was elected to the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees in December 2009. Ms. Nutall earned a Bachelor of Arts in business management from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. She received a Certificate of Competence Training Program in instructional leadership from the University of North Texas in Denton. She also attended the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 Summer Changes Everything National Conference at Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning.
Ms. Nutall was a community liaison at Dallas ISD from 1995 to 2003. In this capacity, she coordinated and managed more than 95 volunteers from nonprofit agencies, churches, schools, and various corporations. She coordinated community events and fund-raising programs and worked with local media to highlight the achievements of the schools in which she served. As a community liaison, she developed innovative programming such as Running for Success and E-Mentoring and conducted educational workshops.
She also helped high school seniors obtain scholarships from various sources and collaborated with counselors on the coordination of college recruiters, student recruitment, and financial aid workshops for both students and parents. Ms. Nutall organized the National Take Our Daughters to Work: An Educational Mentoring Program for Minority Young Women at three Dallas ISD schools in conjunction with the City of Dallas.
Ms. Nutall is an active member of her community and in 1999 cofounded Circle of Support, Inc., a comprehensive academic and enrichment summer learning program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program provides summer educational programs for more than 250 boys and girls in math, science, art, and reading.
Ms. Nutall is married and has two daughters.
Awards and Certificates (Past and Present)
- The Dreamers, Doers and Unsung Hero Award from The Real Estate Council
- Dallas Junior Chamber Outstanding Young Dallasite
- Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award nominee
- James Cash Penny Award for Community Service
- Mobil Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- Southern Dallas Neighborhood Leadership Institute
- “Getting What We Want for Our Community” workshop series participant
- “Most Energetic” Award, Daniel “Chappie” James Learning Center
- “On The Move” Award, Daniel “Chappie” James Learning Center
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District
9 Schools |
Elementary
Schools
- W.A. Blair
- Rufus C. Burleson
- City Park
- Frederick Douglass
- Paul L. Dunbar
- Julia C. Frazier
- Frank Guzick
- John Ireland
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Eduardo Mata
- J.W. Ray
- Joseph J. Rhoads
- Charles Rice
- Oran M. Roberts
- Edna Rowe
- San Jacinto
- Ascher Silberstein
- H.S. Thompson
- William B. Travis Academy
- George W. Truett
- Phillis Wheatley
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Middle
Schools
- Pearl C. Anderson
- E.B. Comstock
- Billy Earl Dade
- John B. Hood
- Harold Wendell Lang Sr.
- J.L. Long
High
Schools
- Maya Angelou
- Evening Academy
- Otto M. Fridia Jr. Alternative
- Lincoln
- James Madison
- Barbara M. Manns
- Middle College
- Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership
- Skyline
- Booker T. Washington Arts
- Woodrow Wilson
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The Dallas Independent School District, as an equal opportunity educational provider and employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation and/or age in educational programs or activities that it operates or in employment decisions. The district is required by Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, as well as board policy not to discriminate in such a manner. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.)
If you suspect discrimination please contact: Mary McCants, Title IX, at (972) 925-3250; Nicki Willis, Section 504, at (972) 925-8050; Marita Hawkins, Americans with Disabilities Act, at (972) 925-4049; or Employee Relations at (972) 925-4200. General questions about the district should be directed to Customer Service at (972) 925-5555. |