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Birdie Alexander Elementary School

1830 Goldwood Drive, Dallas, TX 75232

Phone: (972) 749-3100
Fax: (972) 749-3101

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School Scorecards Information 2008-2009

English

Roshonda Clayton-Brown
Principal

Grade levels:
PK-5

Motto/Mission:
We will come to school each day and work hard to prepare for success in the future.

Uniform colors

• Top:
  Light Blue, Red, and White
• Bottoms:
  Khaki

School colors: Columbian Blue and Red

Mascot: Eagle

Enrollment: 490

Number of teachers: 35

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

Trustee district: District 6

Learning Community:
Southwest Elementary -
Gilberto Gonzalez

Other Contacts

Librarian:
Vivian Hill (972) 749-3110

Counselor:
Karen Zachary (972) 749-3107

Clinic:
Elesa Johnson -Nurse, LaBrita Smith-Nurse Asst. (9

Programs and Activities

Special programs:
TAG, Pasta for Pennies - Leukemia Society, student support team. TC classes, Odyssey of the Mind, career day, Math Olymiad, MaST Fair, winter carnival, Environmental Eagles Club, student council

After-school programs:
PTA sponsored after-school care from 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

Extracurricular activities:
Track and basketball teams, cheerleaders, Girls Club for fourth-sixth grade students

Parent Involvement

PTA, SBDM, Parent Night Out every six weeks, family math and literacy nights

Birdie Alexander Elementary School is named after the district's first renowned music educator in the early 1900s. She received her education from Ward Seminary in Nashville. Alexander was the supervisor of music for the district. She organized and taught the first music education courses at The University of Texas at Austin and founded the original music section of the Texas State Teacher's Association. It was through Alexander's tireless dedication and dynamic personality that the public was shown the need for a music curriculum.

Alexander directed the first 300-voice operetta performed by Dallas students. She also was credited with organizing the first Dallas high school 12-piece orchestra and 40-voice high school male chorus to perform in concert. When the school board announced the positions of music and art supervisors were to be discontinued for lack of funds, she continued to pressed on. In 1913, Alexander had to resign due to illness.

She moved to El Paso and died in 1960 at the age of 90.