What Role Will You Play?
This was the crucial question at last weekend’s Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit. 11,000 people with the same agenda in one room—past, current, and future leaders in urban and rural classrooms now in advocacy roles infiltrating the leadership and ideology of every possible profession from teaching to leading the...
Teach For America Turns 20
On Friday afternoon, I boarded the train towards D.C. to attend Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit. I went to reconnect with colleagues, listen to others engaged in this difficult work, and hopefully leave rejuvenated to continue the fight.
While at summit, I heard about successful efforts of Teach For America...
Skype Lessons
My 10-year-old taught me how to use Skype the other morning. Although she and her friends use it daily, she had to walk me through it—slowly. It’s yet another reminder to me of how the world has changed and continues to change exponentially, for everyone and everything, including education.
Some argue that we shouldn’t...
What Makes Delaware Educators Tick?
Educators throughout the state show greater satisfaction with their jobs across a range of metrics compared to their national counterparts, according to results from the recently released report A Portrait of Delaware’s New Teachers.
The results, based on a survey of approximately 500 educators in their first three years of teaching, paint a...