Tag: professional development
Delaware Submits Ambitious Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Application
Early Childhood Education, News
October 31st, 2011
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...VIEW ARTICLE
Good News for Delaware’s Principals and DASL’s SAM Project
October 27th, 2011
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...VIEW ARTICLE
Guest Blog by President Harker, University of Delaware
October 11th, 2011
This is a guest blog by Patrick Harker, President of the University of Delaware. On October 18, the University of Delaware will be hosting a Vision 2015 sponsored conference on Delaware's education reform efforts, "Delaware's Race to Deliver: Getting it Done...and Done Right. This is first in a blog series about the upcoming conference. Stay tuned...VIEW ARTICLE
P-20 Charts Path Forward; Signs onto RTTT-ELC
October 7th, 2011
Yesterday, the Delaware P-20 Council met for the first time since the membership was expanded and authority was clarified by legislation, focusing on the need to enact cross-agency data sharing regulations that meet our Race to the Top promises. With support from USED’s longitudinal data experts, they now will be drafting regulations for data...VIEW ARTICLE