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Early Childhood Center
Mission
Cityscape Schools exists to work in an educational partnership with families. We desire to provide a distinctive environment of educational opportunity for all children and young people in our community. Cityscape students will have the opportunity to become well prepared, life-long learners possessing the character, knowledge, and wisdom necessary to succeed, lead, and contribute to their community and to society.
Vision
At ECC, our students receive quality, rigorous, and personalized instruction to meet the needs of our students’ diverse learning styles. Our school fosters an atmosphere of collaboration, curiosity, play, and learning fundamental for the social development of our young learners. Our school motto is: “Achieving Academic Success, One Student at a Time!” “We are the Foundation, Watch us SOAR!!”
Instructional Highlights
Preschool (Ages 3 & 4)
🏆 Points of Pride
14,000 square-foot playground and outdoor learning space.
The design for the playground carefully considered with easy accessibility.
The Native Bur Oak tree was selected for our outdoor learning space were carefully selected species that would spark curiosity with foliage shape and seed.
Parental engagement
Parent-Teacher Organization
Volunteer Opportunities
Coffee With Principal
Family Literacy
After School Program
VOLUNTEER!
Are you a parent, community or local business leader?
Volunteering opportunities include events such as field trips, reading days, school festivals, book fairs and many more fun and engaging activities.
Visit: cityscapeschools.voly.org to learn how you can impact a student’s life.
Partners & Supporters
Early Childhood Center is supported by a number of community partners who provide valuable resources that enrich and assist scholars, teachers and staff.
We thank the following current supporters for being part of our extended ECC family:
Cityscape Schools and Head Start of Greater Dallas are partnering to provide high-quality child-development services to families of 3 and 4-year old students, enrolled at Cityscape’s Early Childhood Center.
Cityscape is one of the few charter schools currently partnering with Head Start. As part of the collaboration, Head Start provides income eligible ...
Cityscape's Early Childhood Center had some special guests from the Dallas Fire Department... a Dalmatian puppet dog named Sparky alongside Officer Lewis.
The DFD's Rescue team showed our students what a fire alarm should look like and what sound it makes. Our students also learned what to do in case of a fire or if a person is on fire.
They ...
For the 2023-2024 academic school year, Cityscape’s Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) plan now covers all Reading, Math, Science, and Pre-K teachers, grades Pre-K through 8. Both certified and uncertified teachers are eligible to qualify for a TIA designation.
Cityscape’s district plan is comprised of:
Student Growth – 50 percent
Teacher ...
Attendance Awareness
Cityscape Schools acknowledges the importance of showing up every day! September is known as Attendance Awareness Month and we are dedicated to helping our families understand how being in class every day impacts their children’s learning.
Recent surveys have shown that some of the reasons that students are absent ...
Cityscape Schools and Head Start of Greater Dallas are partnering to provide high-quality child-development services to families of 3 and 4-year old students, enrolled at Cityscape’s Early Childhood Center.
Cityscape is one of the few charter schools currently partnering with Head Start. As part of the collaboration, Head Start provides income eligible ...
Our middle school students created memorable experiences and developed new skills through The Congressional Award summit as part of Cityscapes Foresight Summer Camp!
Cityscape is proud to bring this first-of-its kind leadership program to our middle school students. This program traditionally engages students starting high school but thanks ...
We celebrated the end of a journey at Cityscape for our East Grand Preparatory 8th grade students last Thursday night as they graduated from middle school. The ceremony, which was the beginning of a new path for these students, brought tears to our students, staff and those who were present.
With much excitement we celebrated the graduation ...
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Ms. Sol Acuña, has taught Pre-kindergarten classes for the district since for the past four years. Since last school year (2021-2022) was the first year of TIA eligibility for Cityscape Pre-kindergarten teachers, Ms. Acuña earned T-TESS scores and student growth percentages high enough to earn a pending TIA designation!
When ...
TIA Newsletter
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Ms. Margarita Esquivel, hails from Zacatecas, Mexico and came to the USA when she was 11 years old. She has been with Cityscape Schools since 2015, working first as a TA, then an IA, and after completing her bachelor’s degree and passing her required state certification exams, has been teaching ...
Mr. Carlos Cupido Pending TIA Designee for the 2021-2022 School Year!
One of our seven pending TIA designees, Mr. Carlos Cupido has been teaching at East Grand Preparatory since 2015. He currently teaches 8th grade mathematics. Before coming to Cityscape, Mr. Cupido taught for Dallas ISD for seven years and before that, taught university courses ...
National Leadership Day was created over 50 years ago and started as National Student Government Day. It wasn’t until 1979 that it was renamed “Student Leadership Day.”
In 1983 that the celebration was extended to a week, creating National Student Leadership Week to ensure all clubs and activities were included, such as student government ...
In February 2023, Mr. Angel Rodriguez was designated as Recognized status in TEA’s Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) program. Born and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Mr. Rodriguez was interviewed by Cityscape staff while living in Puerto Rico and came to Dallas for the sole purpose of teaching students at Cityscape Schools. He currently teaches ...
