New Year Welcomes Delaware Schools with Staffing Concerns, Teacher Burnout, and COVID Spikes
As the winter holidays recede, for many of our teachers, it already feels like June. Despite hopes that this school year would usher a return back to normal, we know that it’s been anything but that. Masks are still on. Staff shortages and burnout are real. Working to support kids, families, and communities where they need to...
Delaware Makes National Headlines for High-Quality Instructional Materials
Four Delaware Districts Become National Stars
Four local districts—Seaford, Cape Henlopen, Brandywine, and Red Clay—received some national kudos this summer.
Knowledge Matters, a nationwide issue campaign, is spotlighting districts across the country they consider superstars when it comes to high-quality instructional materials...
‘Collegiate’ Hubs for Teachers-in-Training Coming to Delaware Campuses
Delaware continues to grapple with two historic challenges when it comes to its teacher workforce. First, there are simply not enough teachers to keep pace with projected student growth. And second, the teachers that are in the classrooms and educator prep programs do not look like the students they serve.
Teacher diversity, or the lack...
“I’m Proof That it Works.” Talking Teacher Residencies with Tameka Wingo
It took a lot of soul searching for Tameka Wingo to make the decision to change careers. But the former marketing professional knew that her true calling was teaching.
So Wingo enrolled in the RELAY Graduate School of Delaware’s alternate route certification program, which provided her an immersive teacher residency at Thomas Edison Charter...