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Our Solutions for Personalizing Delaware Schools

October 30th, 2014

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This was written on behalf of the Rodel Teacher Council by Tim Brewer, a Science Teacher and Science Chair at St. Georges High School in the New Castle County Vocational Technical School District; and Jennifer Lougheed, an Instructional Coach at the Indian River School District. It was originally published in the "The News Journal" as an...

Personalized Learning is the New Reality in Delaware Classrooms

October 6th, 2014

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In recognition of Connected Educator Month, we are proud to feature this guest blog from Melissa Blair Tracy, National Board Certified Social Studies Teacher at Conrad Schools of Science in the Red Clay Consolidated School District, discussing how she has evolved her teaching practice to incorporate the use of technology to support student...

Delaware’s Remediation Rates Released

September 26th, 2014

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Earlier this week, the Delaware Department of Education released state, district, and school-level reports on the remediation rates of Delaware’s class of 2012 students who have attended higher education institutions in the state. This is the first time the state has remediation information available at a district and school level, and it...

Delawareans Invited to Contribute to Smarter Assessment Development

September 22nd, 2014

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As Delaware continues implementation of the Common Core State Standards which were adopted in 2010, the state is also preparing for the implementation of Smarter Balanced Assessment, which will be administered starting in the spring of 2015. Smarter Balanced will align more closely to the information students are expected to learn under the new...