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Welcome to new Vision Coalition Leadership Team Chair, Bettina Tweardy Riveros, J.D.

News, Partnerships

October 5th, 2021

Vision Coalition of Delaware is proud to announce that Bettina Tweardy Riveros, J.D. will replace outgoing chair, Gary Stockbridge, Regional President, Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric. As chief health equity officer, Riveros is responsible for leading health policy and engaging community stakeholders in partnerships to advance...

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Remember ESSA? Work Still Underway on State Plan

News, Partnerships, Policy and Practice, Student-Centered Learning

February 10th, 2017

The confirmation of Betsy DeVos (and surrounding controversies) as U.S. Secretary of Education dominated news headlines and social media over the last few weeks. However, this national headline may be drowning out what’s happening locally, as Delaware continues to develop its state plan for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act...

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Project-Based Success in “Most Likely to Succeed”

Partnerships, Student-Centered Learning

October 19th, 2015

About 20 years ago, I was teaching in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and met Larry Rosenstock, a really creative vocational education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school. Larry saw the power in letting kids drive their own learning process by developing large-scale projects, to which they could apply what they had learned in class...

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