{"id":393662,"date":"2026-07-31T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:15:09","slug":"heres-where-fwisds-next-listening-session-will-be-hosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393662\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s where FWISD\u2019s next listening session will be hosted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fort Worth Independent School District Administration building at 7060 Camp Bowie Blvd on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n

Abigail Dollins<\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth ISD Board of Managers is hosting a community listening session next week to gather input from community members.<\/p>\n

The session will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at the Center for Transforming Lives campus, a nonprofit organization located at 3001 S. Riverside Drive in Fort Worth, Board Vice President Courtney Lewis announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

The session is part of an ongoing series to facilitate dialogue and feedback from students, families and staff that will inform the district\u2019s improvement goals as it enters its first full school year under state intervention.<\/p>\n

The board hosted five summer listening sessions<\/a> throughout June. At a session hosted at Benbrook Middle-High School<\/a>, community members called for less emphasis on testing and scripted curriculum and more emphasis on critical thinking, communication and literacy.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: Fort Worth ISD board chair Pete Geren is the president and chief executive officer of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, which is a funder of the Star-Telegram\u2019s Crossroads Lab. The Star-Telegram retains independence in all coverage decisions.<\/p>\n

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Lina Ruiz<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Lina Ruiz covers early childhood education in Tarrant County and North Texas for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A University of Florida graduate, she previously wrote about local government in South Florida for TCPalm and Treasure Coast Newspapers.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth Independent School District Administration building at 7060 Camp Bowie Blvd on Wednesday, April 22, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-393662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}