Last week, The New Teacher Project unveiled their School Leader’s Toolbox, which provides innovative tools and strategies to build and maintain high-performing schools around five areas, including recruitment and hiring of candidates, evaluation, retaining high performers, performance accountability, and building a professional...

The brilliance of Dr. Seuss was in hearts and minds again this past week.  Whether the focus of Read Across America Day--held annually on Theodor Geisel’s birthday--or a tribute celebration at Delaware’s Hotel du Pont--the good doctor’s verse won hearts all over again.  It was at the 2011 “Women of...

We’ve featured a few reports on this blog from recent site visits that the Delaware Department of Education has offered to educators statewide as part of its LEA support program. On Thursday, March 3 I had the opportunity to join the group that traveled to the High School of Engineering and Science (HSES), a public, magnet high school in...

Promise remains for the Early Learning Challenge Fund (sometimes referred to as “baby Race to the Top”) in the Supporting State Systems of Early Learning Act, introduced last week in the Senate and sponsored by Delaware’s Chris Coons. The act would provide $350 million in competitive grants to states for improving access to...