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Birdville High’s Dance & Drill Team Dominates Crowd Pleasers Central Dallas Showcase

Congratulations to Birdville High School’s dance and drill team for their outstanding performances at the Crowd Pleasers Central Dallas Showcase at The Colony High School. The Golden Motion Drill Team (GMDT) officers won first place for their category. The Golden Motion Drill Team won first place being named the contest’s “Showcase Elite Team.” Honors went to McKenna Fairbanks, first runner-up Solo; Haley Whitney, third runner-up Solo; GMDT officers, first place for contemporary, lyrical and open; GMDT, first place for contemporary, hip hop, pom and modern; and GMDT, highest-scoring pom dance for the entire Showcase.

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Congratulations to both Haltom and Birdville High Schools’ Dance Departments

Congratulations to both Haltom and Birdville high schools’ dance departments on their recent success at the Texas Dance Educators Association DEAL (Dance Assessment of Education and Learning) event. This assessment asks each school to select 12–20 students from their Dance 1 classes who are then given a limited time to learn and reproduce a series of movement combinations based on the state’s Dance 1 curriculum. Both the Haltom and Birdville groups received a Division I rating which is the highest score possible. Thanks to BHS dance instructors Allie Hudak and Katie Perdue, as well as HHS dance instructors Dieca Jones and Emily Robison for helping these students to succeed.

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Texas Public Schools Week – Thursday, March 10 Activities

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Birdville ISD’s 23,000-plus students will join more than four million others across the state in celebrating Texas Public Schools Week in March.  This year’s theme, “Public Education: A Texas Tradition,” spotlights the host of educational opportunities available to students attending Texas public schools.

As part of the week-long festivities, local campuses will distribute special invitations to parents and community members to visit classrooms and observe the positive activities and programs occurring in public education.  Highlights of activities planned across BISD March 7‒10 follow.  Please check with individual campuses for their complete list of events.

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

Elementary Activities

  • ACFT:  Open House 5:30–7 p.m.
  • Binion: (4&5) Grandparents Lunch during students’ regular lunch time; Last day for Scholastic Book Fair
  • Cheney: School spirit T–shirt classroom contest
  • Foster Village: Open House 6–6:30 p.m.  Parents/Guardians visit classrooms to view student projects; PTA program 6:30 p.m. Book Fair 6 p.m.
  • Francisco: Awards Assemblies (K–2) 8:30 a.m. in the cafeteria, (3–5) 2:45 p.m. in the cafeteria
  • Green Valley: Living Museum in the Library (call school for more details/times); CORE Value Movie Night 7 p.m. in the cafeteria
  • Holiday Heights: PTA Movies under the Stars 6–8 p.m.
  • Snow Heights: Donuts with Dads 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria
  • Watauga: Celebrating Fine Arts Cliburn visit 1:30 p.m.
  • West Birdville: (3–5) Open House 8:10–9:10 a.m.

Middle School Activities

  • North Richland: Community Breakfast, 8 a.m., Library
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Texas Public Schools Week – Wednesday, March 9 Activities

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Birdville ISD’s 23,000-plus students will join more than four million others across the state in celebrating Texas Public Schools Week in March.  This year’s theme, “Public Education: A Texas Tradition,” spotlights the host of educational opportunities available to students attending Texas public schools.

As part of the week-long festivities, local campuses will distribute special invitations to parents and community members to visit classrooms and observe the positive activities and programs occurring in public education.  Highlights of activities planned across BISD March 7‒10 follow.  Please check with individual campuses for their complete list of events.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
  • BCTAL: CTE Spring School-to-Work Coalition Luncheon 11:30 a.m.
  • Birdville High School: Community Reception in the library 3–4 p.m. 
Elementary Activities
  • Binion: (2 & 3) Grandparents Lunch during regular lunch time.
  • Birdville: College Spirit Day
  • Cheney:  College Day–students wear favorite college attire to school.
  • Francisco: Parents invited to breakfast 7:45 a.m. in the gym.
  • Green Valley: Living Museum in the library (call school for more details/times).
  • Spicer: Muffins with Mom 7:30–8 a.m. in cafeteria
  • Stowe: Open House 8–8:45 a.m.
  • Walker Creek: Celebration of Kids
  • Watauga: Celebrating Academic Achievements; Dog Tag Day/College Shirt Day all day

Middle School Activities

  • Richland: Community Breakfast 8 a.m. in the library
  • Watauga: Community Breakfast 8:30–9:30 a.m. 
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Texas Public Schools Week – Tuesday, March 8 Activities

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Birdville ISD’s 23,000-plus students will join more than four million others across the state in celebrating Texas Public Schools Week in March.  This year’s theme, “Public Education: A Texas Tradition,” spotlights the host of educational opportunities available to students attending Texas public schools.

As part of the week-long festivities, local campuses will distribute special invitations to parents and community members to visit classrooms and observe the positive activities and programs occurring in public education.  Highlights of activities planned across BISD March 7‒10 follow.  Please check with individual campuses for their complete list of events.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

  • Haltom High: Freshman Expo 5–7 p.m. (Guests to enter front doors and exit from gym doors)

Elementary Activities

  • Binion:  (1) Grandparents Lunch during regular lunch time; Open House 6–7 p.m.; “Books are Groovy” at the Book Fair 6–7 p.m.; Awards Assemblies (1) 8:30–9 a.m.; (K) 9:30–10 a.m.; (4) 11–11:30 a.m.; (3 Bilingual) 1–1:30 p.m. (2) 1:30–2 p.m.
  • Birdville: Sports Jersey Day, “NFL Night” (Night of Family Literacy) 5:30–7 p.m., Food truck service begins at 5 p.m.
  • Cheney:  Parents invited for coffee and donuts.  Classroom visits 8:10–9 a.m.   
  • Francisco: Open House 6 p.m.
  • Hardeman: Open House 6–7 p.m.
  • Mullendore: PTA meeting and second-grade performance 6:30 p.m.  
  • Richland: Open House 5:30–6:30 p.m.
  • Smith: Open House 5:30–6:30 p.m.
  • Smithfield: Open House 5:30–6:30 p.m.; first-grade program 6:30 p.m.
  • Snow Heights: PTA meeting and second-grade program 6:30 p.m. in cafeteria
  • Spicer: Donuts with Dad 7:30–8 a.m. in cafeteria
  • Stowe: PTA meeting 6:30 p.m., second-grade musical 6:45 p.m.
  • Walker Creek: Open House 6–7 p.m.
  • Watauga: Celebrating Our Cup Stacking skills demonstration 12:00 p.m.
  • West Birdville: (K–2) Open House 8:10–9:10 a.m.

Middle School Activities

  • Haltom Middle:  Community Breakfast in the library 7:30–8:30 p.m.
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March 2016 Notes from Superintendent, Dr. Darrell Brown

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It is hard to believe there are only three months left in the 2015–16 school year. A lot has happened since school began on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Students and staff continue to achieve great things, both academically and personally.

I hope you will join me in telling others Birdville ISD’s focus is excellence, integrity and service. The District has created the social media campaign #WeAreBirdvilleISD for the purpose of sharing the pride of BISD.

Listed below are a few of the points of pride that illustrate why #WeAreBirdvilleISD.

  • BISD has three National Merit Finalists, 13 National Merit Commended Scholars and one National Hispanic Scholar for the 2015–16 school year.
  • BISD was named a finalist for the $5 million Raise Your Hand Texas Blended Learning Initiative.
  • Sixteen BISD high school band and choir members were selected as Texas All-State musicians.
  • Smithfield Middle School was named to the 2016 Texas Schools to Watch® program by the Texas Middle School Association.
  • The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning’s (BCTAL) robotics team recently advanced to the Regional competition.
  • Two Birdville ISD eighth-grade social studies teachers were accepted to attend a week of learning at George Washington’s Mount Vernon home.
  • Birdville ISD’s Audio/Video Production Department announced that Birdville High School senior Ian Chapoy’s short film “The Ambition Song” was accepted into the Texas High School Shorts Program at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival.
  • Hafsa Syed from North Ridge Middle School won BISD’s 2016 Spelling Bee. Adriana Fackender from Holiday Heights Elementary was the runner-up.
  • Richland Elementary’s choir was the only BISD choir invited to perform with the North Texas Children’s Choir at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.
  • Six BISD aspiring middle school and high school playwrights were named winners of the Stage West Theatre’s Neighborhood Play Contest.
  • Binion and Smithfield elementary schools tied for first place in BISD’s 2016 Battle of the Books competition.
  • BISD celebrated with a groundbreaking for the new North Richland Middle School campus on Jan. 15. Thank you BISD voters for your support of the 2014 Bond.

This list might seem long, but it doesn’t begin to touch on all of the accolades I could share about our students, staff and community.

I want to invite you to join me in showing your BISD pride by posting your pictures on social media with a sign or caption containing the hashtag #WeAreBirdvilleISD. Show the world why they should want to be part of the great things happening in Birdville ISD.

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