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.