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February 28, 2013

February 28th, 2013

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National News Education Week State councils propel STEM education Jeremy Hoffmann and his classmates conduct experiments in a physical-world concepts class at the L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville, Tenn., last week. Tennessee is one of the states that has set up a STEM council.  As STEM education gains ever more prominence, statewide...

Welcome Dana, our New Vision Network Director

February 27th, 2013

Author: Paul Herdman

As Board Chair of the Vision Network of Delaware, I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Dana Diesel Wallace as its new Executive Director. The Vision Network is a coalition of school districts and charter schools that are focusing their efforts on three specific areas proven to be critical to student performance: building leadership capacity...

February 27, 2013

February 27th, 2013

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Local News WDDE Additional time helps improve Delaware teacher survey response An extra nine days got the state Department of Education much closer to its goal of 80 percent participation in a recent teacher survey about their workplace.  The window for responding to the TELL Delaware survey closed at midnight Monday. The final tally of responses...

February 26, 2013

February 26th, 2013

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Local News DE Department of Education 5 school districts, 9 charters join Delaware Talent Cooperative The Delaware Department of Education announced today that five school districts and nine charter schools have confirmed their participation in the Delaware Talent Cooperative. In addition to Capital School District and Laurel School District, two...