How to appropriately engage and challenge students with severe challenges and juvenile records. How to allocate resources of time, staff, and funds to meet students’ needs. How to align Race to the Top requirements with current best practices. And how to be an instructional leader. These are the daily challenges we witnessed as we...

With the Republicans’ victories in the midterm elections come shifting priorities around education reform.  While Delaware largely missed this political wave, a new national landscape will still have a profound impact on our state.  There likely will be more support in Washington D.C. for quality charter schools but less support...

While at the Education Trust’s National Conference in Washington, D.C. last week, I had the opportunity to listen to numerous speakers from around the country engaged in positive reform efforts.  One presentation that struck a chord with me highlighted the incredible work going on in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to turnaround their...

Delaware’s Partnership Zone Schools are putting the final touches on the initial drafts to be submitted to the Delaware Department of Education by Monday, November 15 outlining the steps they will take to turn around their schools.  While the final details are unavailable, public hearings and information sessions have provided some...