Why We Need to Dig Deep on Social-Emotional Learning Together
Close your eyes for a moment and think about one of your favorite teachers from grade school. What do you remember? Chances are, you remember as much about how they taught as what they taught. You remember that classroom’s environment and how that teacher made you feel. Inspired. Energized. Safe. Creative.
As we’ve...
A Quick Look at the School Funding Transparency Bill
Senate Bill 172 was introduced in the State Senate this week, representing a monumental foot in the door for addressing Delaware’s arcane school funding system—should it be enacted.
Delaware, as we’ve written about before, employs a 70-year-old school funding system that is complex, inequitable, and inflexible.
Delaware...
We Need a Funding System Built for Tomorrow, not 1940
An enormous and growing number of Delaware students—including those learning English, have special needs, or come from low-income families—aren’t being properly served by our state’s school funding system. This issue has been thrust back into the spotlight thanks to a high-profile civil rights lawsuit, and the ongoing heightened...
A Reminder from MLK
Every year on this weekend, I try to read Martin Luther King Jr’s letter from Birmingham jail. It’s a fairly long letter that he wrote while sitting in his jail cell to the Christian and Jewish clergy that opposed his approach to civil disobedience.
The whole letter, written in 1963, nine years after Brown v. Board of Education...