With forks stretching toward the Oklahoma border, and portions snaking into Dallas, Fort Worth, and south to the gulf, the Trinity River flows an expansive 710 miles across the Lone Star State. As the river reaches North Texas, its Elm Fork travels toward the campus of Cistercian Preparatory School. There, high school students — at times laden with glass jars and nets, clipboards and aquatic robots — have been conducting hands-on research as part of the Irving school’s newfound educational partnership with the Trinity Park Conservancy.
Schools
With pom-poms waving and thank you signs held high, students, faculty, and administrators at St. Philip & St. Augustine Catholic Academy welcomed a busload of members of The Crystal Charity Ball on Feb. 19. Joined by school board members and Diocese of Dallas Catholic schools Superintendent Jeannette Lambert, the special guests toured the southeast Dallas campus as SPSA celebrated its selection as one of eight nonprofits chosen as a 2026 The Crystal Charity Ball beneficiary.
Several parishes and schools across western Washington have shut down operations due to historic flooding in the state.
Recipients were awarded grants this fall totaling almost $1 million from The Catholic Foundation on Nov. 14 during a ceremony at Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Vietnamese Church in Carrollton.
Catholic education, which has changed over the centuries, must continue to evolve to help young people face the challenges not only of technology but of confusion about the meaning and purpose of life, Pope Leo XIV said.
Colleges stand on the front lines of the artificial intelligence debate, balancing how to address students that rely on chatbots to write papers and weighing how to best prepare students to enter a new workforce supported by AI.
If I were a prospective elementary school parent, the first question I would ask a principal or teacher would be: What is your mission?
With handmade signs, chants of “Keegan! Keegan!” and a blur of flags and pom poms, students of the Notre Dame School of Dallas lined their school’s hallways Aug. 13 to give a warm send-off to their classmate Keegan Harrison as he prepared to represent Team USA at the World Transplant Games in Dresden, Germany, Aug. 17-24.
A smile never left the face of Sister Lois Castillon, O.S.U., as she spoke to coaches, teammates, alumni, and family on Feb. 20 as part of a celebration for a new boat for Ursuline Academy of Dallas’ rowing team.