Announcements

	Dallas ISD College Fair scheduled for Feb. 27 College representatives will provide information on how to prepare for college, submit college applications, and complete a financial aid application at the "Las Llaves del Éƒxito" (Keys to Success) College Fair on Saturday, Feb. 27. The free fair is open to Dallas ISD 11th- and 12th-graders and their parents. It will be held at North Lake College, 5001 N. McArthur Blvd., from 8 a.m. to noon. For more information, call (214) 378-1771 or, for assistance in Spanish, call (214) 378-1713. Information also is available at www.dcccd.edu/keystosuccess.
	Child Find If you know of a child who lives in a Dallas ISD attendance zone and may need special education services, please call one of the district’s 24-hour Child Find referral phone numbers. Free services are available to all eligible individuals from birth through 21 years of age regardless of the severity of their disability. The Child Find referral phone numbers are (972) 581-4765 for English and (972) 581-4764 for Spanish.
	GradeSpeed.Net The product saves the teachers’ valuable time allowing them to devote more time to their students and less to administrative tasks. Access to the district’s new electronic grade book application, GradeSpeed.NET, will be phased in based on the number of requests received from the schools. Principals are required to sign up their campus, name their campus GradeSpeed administrators, and ensure that the administrators receive training. Training on the use of the application will begin in November. Principals, please click this link http://inet.dallasisd.org/depts/mis/signup.cfm (you must be on the Dallas ISD network to access this link) to fill out the sign-up form. To signup for use of the GradeSpeed.NET product you will be asked: School name Principal’s name Deployment phase in which your school would like to participate. Name your Campus GradeSpeed Administrators for the product (two to three people). We suggest it be a professional employee that has an understanding of technology. The person will be responsible to assist with passwords at your campus, do some basic training for the other teachers at your campus, and communicate with the district administrators on the product. We are using the train the trainer model. Your administrators’ training dates. Number of teachers expecting to use the product. Once you have selected your preferred phase and supplied the required information we will follow up to confirm your requested start date. Refer all questions to GradeSpeedInfo@dallasisd.org. Click here for online tutorial: http://www.gradespeed.net/dallas. Click here to access Gradespeed.net: http://dallas.gradespeed.net/gs/
	Enrollment of middle and high school immigrant students and refugee students of all ages begins at Student Intake Center Middle and high school immigrant students new to the district and refugee students of all ages enroll at the district’s Margaret and Gilbert Herrera Student Intake Center on the campus of James B. Bonham Elementary School. The center, located at 2617 N. Henderson, is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Birth certificate, immunization records, and proof of residency in the district are required to enroll new students. For more information, call (972) 749-5760. Informational Flyer