Innovation and Collaboration News
2025
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SMU Professor Presents to Lower School
Candace Walkington, an Annette and Harold Simmons Centennial Chair, Professor, in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southern Methodist University, presented to our Lower School faculty about teaching Hockaday's new math curriculum, and data around the four outcomes in Lower School: wonder, agency, collaboration, and resilience!Read More -
Teacher Partners with Smithsonian
Upper School teacher Kristen Blevins spoke at the Smithsonian National Education Summit in Washington D.C. this summer in collaboration with an ongoing partnership she has developed with the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.Read More -
Student Spends Summer Studying Radiation Therapy
This summer, Haley M. (Class of 2027) completed a research internship at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she contributed to clinical trials in radiation oncology.Read More -
Students Use Coding Skills For Good
This summer, Lily Fagelman (Class of 2026) and Anusha Chowdhary (Class of 2027) worked together to create a database that will be used by social impact partner United to Learn!Read More -
Student Wins Oratory Category in Great Debate Tournament for the National Hispanic Institute
Read MoreGrecia Tarin (Class of 2028) placed first in the Oratory category at the national competition. -
Teachers Honored with Inaugural Award for Innovative Teaching and Instruction
Emily Dutcher, Mackenzie Miller '03, and Karen Sanchez received the new award.Read More -
Fourth Grade CCI
Fourth Graders presented their culminating CCI projects to Lower School students this week!Read More -
DECA Success
Seven Hockaday students competed at DECA’s ICDC (an international business competition) in Orlando, FL, last week.Read More -
Student Pitch Competition Winners
Last week, the Biology, Impact, and the Zoo class, a Social Impact class taught by Brandi Finazzo and Laura Day, held the seventh annual BIZ Shark Tank Pitch Contest.Read More -
Hockaday Welcomes Allman Fellows
This week, Hockaday welcomed the 2024–25 Allman Fellows, Dr. Twila Moon, Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, Glaciologist, Speaker, and Author, to campus.Read More -
First Grade Field Studies
Read MoreLower School’s Field Studies class worked with Upper School’s Conservation Biology class to identify native plants in our Blackland Prairie area near the softball field. -
Fourth Grade Snap Circuits
Read MoreVolunteers from High Tech High Heels worked on snap circuits with Fourth Grade students yesterday! -
Alumne Spotlight: Kenya Roy '15
Kenya Roy '15 is working on a Master in Dat Science degree at SMU.Read More -
Taylor Hall '08 Visits Campus
Taylor is the VP of Operations at Crossroads, a food distribution service that employs a collaborative approach to revolutionize the pantry distribution model through food equity research, client-centered services, and community partner engagement.Read More -
Alumnae Spotlight: Grace Embrey '17
Grace Embrey '17 works as a Data and Performance Associate at Goldman Sachs.Read More -
Alumnae Spotlight: Jialu Wang '13
Since graduating from Hockaday, Jialu (Lulu) Wang ’13 is now a senior research associate at ReCode Therapeutics, a California-based company with an office at BioLabs in Dallas dedicated to developing medicine for genetic diseases with no existing treatment options.Read More -
Building BioLabs
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Elena Zeballos '24 Attends First-Time Voters Summit
In 2024, Close Up, the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University (DDL), Helena, the Generation Lab, and the Neely Center at the University of Southern California hosted America in One Room: The Youth Vote in Washington, D.C.Read More -
Lower School Dream Lab
The Lower School Dream Lab has become a hub of creativity, collaboration, and hands-on learning.Read More -
The Power of Synthesis
Thinking beyond boundaries at Hockaday.Read More -
Hockaday Celebrates Engineering Week
Lower School welcomed some amazing women for Engineer Week!Read More -
Students Hear from Entrepreneurs
Students in Breaking the Glass Ceiling visited Hari Mari to hear from the founders about their journey in social entrepreneurship.Read More -
Middle School Robotics
Three Middle School Robotics teams competed in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Division, where they worked together starting in August to develop both an autonomous LEGO robot design that could earn points in up to 15 different missions and an independent innovation project that solves a real-world problem of their choice.Read More -
Robotics Team Wins INSPIRE award
Congratulations to the Upper School Robotics Team, the Hockabots, which competed in the FIRST Robotics FTC Semi-Area Championship held at Woodrow Wilson High School.Read More -
Refurbishing Technology
Members of the Computer Science Club worked with our Tech department to learn how to refurbish gently used technology.Read More -
Brittani Hite '05 Works With Middle School Students
Fifth Grade students have been working with Texas Trees Foundation on a special project to plant 3,500 trees in South Dallas through the South Dallas Greening Initiative!Read More -
Hockaday Computer Science Program Honored
Hockaday was one of 237 schools to earn the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science.Read More -
Neuroscience Students Create "Pop Up" Brain Fair
Form IV Neuroscience students partnered with Foster Elementary’s after-school program to teach elementary students about the brain.Read More -
Third Grade and Food Insecurity
Third Graders were visited by Susan Hoffman of United Way yesterday, who came by to discuss food insecurity in Dallas.Read More -
Finance Expert Visits Investment Club
Debra Tagg, president of BFS Advisory Group and a member of Hockaday’s Investment Committee, spoke with members of the Upper School Investment Club this week about her industry.Read More -
Crocheting for Good
Ava Hollins (Class of 2030) is a budding entrepreneur, with products that sell out in the Hockaday bookstore!Read More -
Student Named Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar
Congratulations to Aimee Guo (Class of 2025) who was named a Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar, one of only 300 in the nation!Read More
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The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.