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Reasons to Be Optimistic about the Wilmington Learning Collaborative

News, Policy and Practice

October 8th, 2022

  Next week marks the potential next step in a multiyear process led by Governor John Carney to bring together the Wilmington community to support schools in the city. As the state’s most populous city, with a history of structural racism and persistent poverty, Wilmington often stands apart in policy conversations—especially when...

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Supporting Delaware’s Students in the Wake of COVID

News, Policy and Practice

September 27th, 2022

Whether you are a parent/guardian, a student, or an educator, you have felt the academic and developmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the spring of 2020 and the better part of the next two years, school was disrupted. And whether a student was learning virtually or in-person, their academic and social experiences were...

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Roger Weissberg, A Gentle Giant in the SEL World

News, Student-Centered Learning

September 15th, 2021

On September 5, Dr. Roger Weissberg, one of the founders of CASEL (the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the leading research and practice organization in the nation on Social and Emotional Learning, passed away at the age of 69. As Delaware’s Secretary of Education, the state’s leader on SEL and the head of...

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