Dream Team Fitness opened in Denton in early January and offers fitness classes for women and personal training for everyone, owner Jennifer Evans said.

The overview: The classes include a bootcamp, where guests work with weights, do cardio and do activities such as flip and drag a 150-pound tire as fast as they can for 45 minutes.

Evans said she plans to implement a hip-hop fitness class in April, where the instructor will develop and teach choreographed workout routines to hip-hop music. The classes are for women, but men can book personal trainings, as well, she said.

Dream Team Fitness also provides meal prep services, with meals prepared by Chef Zeke Mims, Evans’ fiancé. Guests pick their protein, carb and vegetable, and Mims prepares meals for them based on their fitness goals.

Some background: Evans, a Denton native and mother of three athletes, coached youth basketball and track for seven years before opening the gym. She wanted to create a space where “beginners can come here and feel completely confident,” she said.

• Intersection of Loop 288 & East McKinney Street, Denton

Texas’ newest state park is opening its gates for a soft opening at the beginning of March, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news release.

The details: The March 1 opening of Palo Pinto Mountains State Park gives early park access to guests ahead of the grand opening, which will be announced at a later date. The park’s website states “final touches are ongoing” and guests might see some construction. 

The park is roughly 75 miles west of Dallas-Fort Worth and encompasses 4,871 acres of former ranch land to hike, bike and fish. Trails lead to remote areas of the park with vista views, lakeside experiences and a variety of campsites, including RV sites, according to previous reporting.

The backstory: Land for the park was purchased in 2011 after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department partnered with The Nature Conservancy to buy land for a new state park, according to previous reporting.

• 100 Park Road #77, Strawn

A zoning change could convert 37 acres to an apartment community in McKinney. Meanwhile, 15 North Texas spring festivals are happening soon.

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Dozens of Texans shared their feedback Feb. 25 on the current phase of a lengthy revision of the state’s social studies curriculum standards. Parents, educators and students urged the State Board of Education to slow the revision process down and give those drafting the new curriculum more time to work.

The overview: The state is currently overhauling the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for social studies, which are the standards dictating what public school students should learn at each grade level. The board is expected to adopt the new standards this summer before they are rolled out to classrooms in 2030.

“We have one opportunity to get this right for an entire generation of students,” said Meghan Dougherty, an Austin-area social studies specialist involved in the revision process.

Zooming in: Several educators involved in drafting the new curriculum plan said current proposals included "too much content" with a heavy emphasis on Texas history, while some appointed content advisers and SBOE members argued schools should teach lessons focused on "American exceptionalism [and] Texan exceptionalism."