Dallas

• America SCORES Dallas serves 9 schools in the Dallas Independent School District.
• Big Thought/Thriving Minds, DISD’s after-school contractor, is partially funding 6 out of the 9 schools, enabling us to serve 288 students.
• We will have Open Mic Nights at Starbucks on 4/4.
  
• We will host our annual Shout on 5/11 and Jamboree on 5/12 (locations TBD).
• We will be working on our Community Service Projects all season.  Each school will choose a project that helps the community.  For instance,  a school clean up day, a recycling program, plant a tree day, etc.  We will have Starbucks volunteers come out and help our schools on their community day.
  
• We have 6 soccer game days scheduled. 2/24, 3/02, 3/23, 4/13, 4/20, 5/04
  

Teaching kids to write is equivalent to teaching kids to think; giving kids the tools to write is giving them the resources to be successful in life. Combining all of this with soccer is like putting peanut butter with chocolate. I am surprised every public school hasn’t adopted an America SCORES program.

-Stephen King, Author

Every boy and girl who has kicked a soccer ball, created a poem, and helped out with a community project through America SCORES has had a chance to learn lessons that reach far beyond these activities. Lessons like how to express themselves, how to recognize their innate worth, and how to develop the faith that they can make a positive difference in this world.

-James Earl Jones, Actor