Report Highlights Importance of Working Conditions
In order to better serve low-income students, not only identifying high-performers, but providing them with the necessary conditions for success is crucial according to the recently released Ed Trust report Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning.
The report...
Now is the Time to Reimagine Teaching
The Delaware Department of Education announced that eleven schools will participate in the Race to the Top teacher incentive program - providing highly-effective educators that demonstrate substantial growth with their students $10,000 dollars to continue teaching at their high-need schools.
As someone who has firsthand experience as both an...
Bring Out the Game Film!
A while back, I watched one of the sessions coach John Gruden conducted with then NFL quarterback prospect Andrew Luck in which they dissected game film and I got to thinking: Why don’t we do this as educators?
For sports, this makes sense - we all know that football and basketball are games of inches where teams practice more than they play in...
Voting in Tomorrow’s School Board Elections is What’s Most Important
Delaware’s school board elections scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8, have generated a lot more attention than in the past and my hope is that a lot more people go to the polls and vote (10am-8pm).
Our foundation’s mission is to help Delaware create world-class schools. To that end, we worked with hundreds of parents, teachers, and...