October 7, 2013
Local News
The News Journal
Focus on improving
An opinion by Ted Kaufman
Hard to believe where a minority of house members are taking the country. A few years ago, I spent a couple of weeks traveling around Delaware asking professional educators what we could do to improve our K-12 schools. I learned a lot from a number of people, but what I was...
Daily Education News – 10/4/13
Here are several stories in today’s news about Delaware education and from across the nation:
Local News
Delaware Department of Education
Delaware launches statewide teacher recruitment effort
The state is leading a new effort to recruit top educators to teach in Delaware schools. The campaign, “Join Delaware Schools,” aims to attract the...
EngageME: PLEASE! (Personalized Learning Experiences Accelerate Standards-based Education)
We are publishing a blog series about themes to be discussed at the upcoming Vision 2015 conference on Delaware public education to be held on October 9. This blog post is the third in the series, written by Jill Hobson, the Director of Instructional Technology for Forsyth County Schools in Georgia.
To read the first blog post, “Preparing...
Staying “Connected” in October
October is Connected Educator Month—celebrating educators who leverage online communities of practice to ‘connect’ around improving teacher and leader effectiveness and enhancing student learning.
Today, more than ever, educators can connect, lead, learn, and master their practice through sites like TeacherTube.com and teachingchannel.org...