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Henry W. Longfellow Career Exploration Academy

5314 Boaz Street Dallas, TX 75209

Phone: (972) 749-5400
Fax: (972) 749-5401
htewolde@dallasisd.org

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School Scorecards Information 2008-2009

English

Shannon Tovar
Principal

John C. Calicchio
Assistant Principal(s)

Grade levels:
6-8

Motto/Mission:
Our mission is to provide an environment in which students are motivated to excel both academically and socially in a climate of mutual respect.

Uniform colors

• Top:
  white, navy
• Bottoms:
  khaki, navy

School colors: Orange and White

Mascot: The Longhorn

Enrollment: 433

Number of teachers: 30

Hours/Bell schedule: 8:30 a.m-3:35 p.m.

Regular Bell, Assembly Bell, and Advisory Bell

Trustee district: District 2

Learning Community:
West Secondary -
Cynthia Goodsell

Other Contacts

Librarian:
(972) 749-5411 Marcella Folks

Counselor:
(972) 749-5409 Carol Goodwin

Clinic:
(972) 749-5409 Debra Swick RN

Programs and Activities

Special programs:
Advanced Computer Courses, Business Ventures Expo, Career Exploration & Career Day, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Sixth Grade Garden, Synergistics Lab

After-school programs:
After-school Tutoring, School Dances

Extracurricular activities:
Band, Choir, Dentistry Club, Eighth Grade Week, National Junior Honor Society, School Newspaper, Student Council, Yearbook

Parent Involvement

PTA, Field Trip Chaperones

Major Awards and Honors

2007 Blue Ribbon School; 2007 TBEC Honor Roll; 2008-2009 Character Counts! School of Character; 2009 Vote for the Float Top Ten; Top secondary DISD Digital Extravaganza (computer), three years; Regional winner, Exploravision Award, sponsored by Toshiba and NSTA (computer); Rated Exemplary and Recognized by TEA, 12 years

The school is named for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), a poet born in Portland, Maine. After graduation from Bowdoin College in1825, Longfellow studied languages in Europe until 1829. He then held positions as professor and librarian at Bowdoin until1835. Following further study in Europe, he served as professor of French and Spanish at Harvard University from 1836 to 1854.

A collection of his poetry, Voices in the Night , contained the poems "A Psalm Life," "Hymn to the Night," and "The Light of the Stars," which became widely known. Ballads and Other Poems (1841), including such immensely popular works as "Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "Excelsior," as well as his longer narrative "Evangeline" (1847), "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855), and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858) served to make him the best known American poet of the century.

His Tales of a Wayside Inn opens with "Paul Revere's Ride," which has ever since been a national favorite. The wide knowledge of these works and their inclusion in school curriculum throughout the country did not establish the popular notion of poetry in the United States well into the Twentieth Century. For spiritual solace at the time of the accidental death of his second wife in 1861, he translated The Devine Comedy of Dante (1865-67) and produced a series of six sonnets, "Divina Commedia," which are among his finest. Although his work later came to be regarded as saccharine and didactic, there is no denying that he played one of the traditional roles of a poet.