Congratulations goes out to both the Dallas ISD and the Highland Park ISD!!

Two Dallas ISD schools have received the U.S. Department of Education's coveted Blue Ribbon Award. H.S. Thompson Learning Center and James B. Bonham Elementary School were awarded the 2010 Blue Ribbon Schools Award. This national award honors both private and public schools that have achieved academic excellence or made significant progress in closing the achievement gap. The H.S. Thompson Learning Center and James B. Bonham Elementary School are among only 25 schools in Texas named as Blue Ribbon Schools this year. Horray!!

Congratulations also goes out to the Highland Park ISD. Highland Park High School has had 30 seniors named as commended students in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awesome students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2011 competition by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Highland Park High School is also proud to announce four HPHS students who have been named as Hispanic Scholars by the College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program. This program identifies nearly 5,000 of the highest-scoring students from a nationwide total of more than 200,000 high school juniors in the United States and U.S. Territories who take the PSAT/NMSQT and designate themselves as Hispanic/Latino.

Way to go Highland Park High School!!

When reading this quote by George M. Adams it said, “There are low spots in our lives, but there are also high spots, and most of them have come through encouragement from someone else.” I could not help but think about Laurie Gaines. Laurie and I have known one another for several years. When we first met, it was through Diagnostic Learning Services, http://www.diagnosticlearningservices.com/ where she evaluated students to determine the IQ and Ability level of the student.

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I cannot believe what a wonderful job Eric did in just one hour. My daughter came downstairs so excited to take the test tomorrow and went to bed for the first time in 2 weeks before 11 pm! She is so fired up, she cannot wait for her next tutoring session. As she put it, “He put the pieces of the puzzle together in plain English that a 14 year old can understand."