Tag: Teacher Effectiveness

ESEA Waiver Presents Opportunity to Build Upon Delaware’s Reform Efforts

News, Policy and Practice

December 9th, 2011

Delaware will join approximately 40 other states seeking a waiver from requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – providing us an unprecedented opportunity to build upon our current Race to the Top efforts around data use and teacher quality. Based upon Delaware’s initial draft, we are proposing to: Continue our...

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State Board of Education Meeting Summary

News, Policy and Practice

November 29th, 2011

This month, at the State Board of Education meeting, Delaware Department of Education officials provided updates and presentations on DCAS and the Partnership Zone, as well as a charter schools update; the board voted on the student growth measurement in DPAS II. Dr. Mike Stetter, Director of Accountability Resources, discussed the status of DCAS...

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An Anniversary, a Conference, and a Lot of Work Ahead

Early Childhood Education, News, Policy and Practice

October 28th, 2011

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...

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Local and National Interest in Principals/School Leaders Rises

News, Policy and Practice

October 25th, 2011

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...

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