Leadership Teams Announced for Partnership Zone Schools
Part of Delaware’s Race to the Top plans included establishing a Partnership Zone to focus significant new resources in several of the state’s lowest-performing schools. Delaware schools selected for the Partnership Zone are progressing with innovative plans to transform into thriving campuses that inspire extraordinary student...
What’s in Your School’s Toolbox?
Last week, The New Teacher Project unveiled their School Leader’s Toolbox, which provides innovative tools and strategies to build and maintain high-performing schools around five areas, including recruitment and hiring of candidates, evaluation, retaining high performers, performance accountability, and building a professional...
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
The brilliance of Dr. Seuss was in hearts and minds again this past week.
Whether the focus of Read Across America Day--held annually on Theodor Geisel’s birthday--or a tribute celebration at Delaware’s Hotel du Pont--the good doctor’s verse won hearts all over again.
It was at the 2011 “Women of...
What Makes You Get Out of Bed?
We’ve featured a few reports on this blog from recent site visits that the Delaware Department of Education has offered to educators statewide as part of its LEA support program. On Thursday, March 3 I had the opportunity to join the group that traveled to the High School of Engineering and Science (HSES), a public, magnet high school in...