Delaware Submits Ambitious Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Application
On October 19, 2011 Delaware submitted an ambitious application for a roughly $50 million share of the $500 million federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) competitive grant. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Delaware was one of 35 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico to submit an application.
Delaware’s plan...
An Anniversary, a Conference, and a Lot of Work Ahead
This is a guest blog post by Marvin N. “Skip” Schoenhals, chairman of Vision 2015 and WSFS Bank in Wilmington, DE, for which he served as president and CEO from 1990 to 2007. He is a member of the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame.
Five years ago, Vision 2015 set out to transform the education that we were offering to our public school...
Good News for Delaware’s Principals and DASL’s SAM Project
If you asked most students and even teachers what their principals’ duties are, they would probably give you a laundry list of administrative tasks. In my own experience, my principal was responsible for everything from grant-writing to lunch duty. But most people would agree that a principal is first and foremost the instructional leader of a...
Local and National Interest in Principals/School Leaders Rises
Last week the application was released for the second cohort of the Delaware Leadership Project (DLP), an alternative principal pipeline aimed at training highly effective school leaders and putting them in schools that need them the most (for more on DLP see our previous post and DLP’s website).
There has been increased national attention...