August 22, 2016
Delaware News
Hockessin Community News
St. Elizabeth School to screen documentary on education
The documentary, “Most Likely to Succeed,” will be screened at 4 p.m. Aug. 24 in the Benedictine Performing Arts Center at St. Elizabeth High School, 1500 Cedar St., Wilmington. Directed by Greg Whiteley, the film focuses on an education system that was created at the beginning of the Industrial Age and has seen minimal changes since, although the marketplace has witnessed radical changes.
Rodel Blog
Why Quality Public Schools Benefit Us All
It’s not just kids, parents, and teachers who feel the impact of our public schools. If you’re a citizen of Delaware, then you are—in one way or another—affected by our state’s education system. Scroll below for more on how supporting students today can lead to a brighter tomorrow for everyone.
How Teachers *Really* Spend Summer Break
It’s a common misconception that all teachers spend their summers sipping iced tea by the pool. In reality, many of your children’s educators are hard at work with students in summer programs or preparing for the new school year. We caught up with a few members of the Rodel Teacher Council to learn about their summer projects.
Technical.ly Delaware
Zip Code Wilmington receives national recognition
The Obama administration thinks Zip Code Wilmington is doing something right. The coding school is one of eight nontraditional education providers involved in a $17 million effort to connect more workers with 21st-century skills. The U.S. Department of Education program, called the Educational Quality through Innovative Partnerships (EQUIP), offers students grants and loans to attend schools that aren’t traditional colleges.
National News
Argus Leader
Mentoring program aims to up teacher retention
Nerves run hand-in-hand with back-to-school excitement for new teachers. To help calm those nerves, the state department of education has developed a mentoring program for first-year teachers. The program—funded through the same trio of bills that raised teacher pay this spring—operates on the hope that by assisting teachers through the overwhelming first years, they’ll be more willing to stay in the profession long-term.
Education Week
Fed up with state’s K-12 stance, Okla. teachers run for office
Fueled by their fury over cuts to K-12 budgets, low pay, and an array of other grievances, a scrappy group of teachers is attempting to upend Oklahoma’s political establishment this election season. After ousting the state’s superintendent in a 2014 primary, the loosely organized group of educators from around the state successfully campaigned to scrap the state’s teacher-evaluation system that was tied to students’ test scores.
NPR
Research on Tulsa’s Head Start program finds lasting gains
In 1998 Oklahoma became one of only two states to offer universal preschool, and it’s been one of the most closely watched experiments in the country. Today, the vast majority of these programs are in public schools. The rest are run by child-care centers or Head Start, the federally funded early childhood education program.
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore area schools work to hang on to new teachers
Kristyn Ferguson, a first-year teacher at Deer Park Middle Magnet School in Baltimore County, has spent a week turning her classroom into a vibrant place to teach drama. She rolled out a black plastic sheath on the floor at the front of the room to serve as a stage and painted one wall black. She covered a mirror on the wall so her students can learn to express emotion by instinct and unselfconsciously.
The Los Angeles Times
Can two new L.A. high schools make fire departments more diverse?
A fire engine rolled through the gates of Banning High School in Wilmington on the first day of school, just as the last students were grabbing their breakfasts and heading to class. No, it wasn’t an emergency. Firefighters from Fire Station 38 were there to show off their truck to students of the school’s new firefighter-themed magnet school.