Hillcrest E-TECH Newsletter

Our Hillcrest E-TECH students continue to demonstrate great success in their high school and college courses! Our failure rates are decreasing, and our juniors and seniors have a 100% completion rate for their grade checks. Thank you to our parents for ensuring your students keep up with their schoolwork, to our students for putting in the hard work, and to our teachers & counselors who serve as facilitators checking student progress on a weekly basis!

We are now officially entering the time of year when students will take many important exams. Here are the dates:

• 3/2/26 - TSIA - Select 11th & 12th graders who have already been notified (at Richland College)
• 3/3/26, 3/5/26, & 3/6/26 - TELPAS makeup testing - 9th & 10th grade (at Hillcrest)
• 3/4/26 - SAT - all 11th grade (at Hillcrest)
• 3/6/26 TELPAS makeup testing - 11th & 12th grade (at Hillcrest)
• 3/11/26 - TSIA - 11th & 12th grade (at Richland College)

Students will take EOC/STAAR exams in April (see flyer in this newsletter), and AP exams will take place May 4th through May 15th (more details to come soon).

Parents, we still need your support in helping your students attend all of their classes and study halls. Please emphasize how important it is to stay on top of their studies as we near Spring Break, and then encourage them to persevere through to the end of the year with strength and determination. Tutorials are available Monday-Thursday for any students who need extra support; they can see any E-TECH staff member for specific days/times.

We can do this together!

Ricardo DeJesus

Hillcrest High School

Assistant Principal

rdejesus@dallasisd.org

972-502-6839

Congratulations to our E-TECH seniors on getting accepted to amazing colleges!

Tai'Jon Goss - Texas Wesleyan University

Anderson Hewitt - University of Texas, Austin

Melisa Pooyadoost - East Texas A&M University

Ashley Quebrado - Tulane University

Lesly Zamora Esparza - Brandeis University

We want to give a HUGE thank you to our partners at Texas Exchange Bank for providing our students an opportunity to attend a Dallas Mavs game in style. It was an amazing experience that they could not have enjoyed without Texas Exchange Bank's help and generosity!

During our recent game vs Molina HS, our very own E-TECH student, Kamrynn Maritnez, reached 100 goals in her high school soccer career. Way to go, Kamrynn!

In the late fall, E-TECH seniors, Anderson Hewitt and Dezmen Lewis, taught HAK Camp to prepare our juniors for their spring EET classes.

We are so proud of our wrestlers for helping the Hillcrest boys and girls teams place 1st and 6th in the district, respectively.

The following E-TECH students wrestled for Hillcrest at the district level:

• Victor Ramirez - 1st
• Alejandro Moctezuma - 1st
• Allison Serrano - 1st
• Avril Flores - 1st
• Christian Moctezuma - 2nd
• Alexia Gonzalez Rojas- 3rd
• Jhosalyn Balderas - 6th
• Brayson Smith - 6th
• Ryan Flores- 6th

Victor, Alejandro, and Allison went on to compete at the state level, where Victor Ramirez placed 3rd. Way to go, Panthers!!!

Remind is the app we use in E-TECH to communicate important information to students and families. It is very important for ALL of our students to join, and we strongly encourage parents to join as well.

Parents, please ensure your student has the proper uniform attire each of the days. We want to have 100% of students following uniform guidelines.

Please be reminded:

MONDAYS (Business Casual) - Red or black E-TECH polo, khaki or black bottoms (NO JEANS, LEGGINGS, JEGGINGS, OR JEAN-LIKE MATERIAL)

WEDNESDAYS (Professional Wear) - White button up with E-TECH vest or blazer, khaki, or black bottoms (NO JEANS, LEGGINGS, JEGGINGS, OR JEAN-LIKE MATERIAL)

FRIDAYS - E-TECH spirit t-shirt (red - 9th grade, black - 10th grade), bottoms of choice (in accordance with school appropriate wear)