Tutoring often is misunderstood as someone helping a student with their homework. Itâs much more than that, said Dorrell Green, superintendent of Red Clay Consolidated School District. Effective tutoring involves concentrated instruction, hiring reading specialists and coaches and spending time in and out of the classroom to improve. Red Clayâs Lewis Elementary School has been experimenting with high-dosage tutoring techniques …
Indian River to spend $2.8M on science of reading curriculum
Indian River School District will spend $2.8 million on a new science of reading curriculum expected to improve literacy rates and test scores but its school board took a shot at the state for mandating the move without providing money for it. The Sussex County school district serving 10,799 students will invest in a 5-year contract with Core Knowledge Language …
Delaware LIVE Weekly Review â Jan. 1, 2023
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Weekâs Top Headlines Include: January A perfect storm for schools, teachers: No subs, bus woes, COVID As revenues rise, Republicans say taxpayers should get some money back February Renter, landlord advocates disagree over solutions to eviction crisis Child care workers still waiting for promised $1,500 state bonuses March Pike …
2022 Rewind: Reading, teacher retention top 2022 education bills
This story was originally published in July 2022. Rodel, a local nonprofit espousing better education in Delaware, calls the 151st General Assembly, which just ended, the âEducation General Assembly,â in regard to the number of education bills that passed. âThereâs more than 50 education bills this session and a 7% increase in the budget,â said Madeleine Bayard, senior vice president of Rodel. âThey got …
2022 Rewind: Meet Delawareâs Teacher of the Year
This story was originally published in May 2022. Jahsha Tabronâs passion for English and literature exploded after reading Shakespeareâs âHamletâ and âMacbethâ in her 11th grade honors English class in the Bronx. Thirty years later, Tabron â who is Delawareâs Teacher of the Year for 2022 â leads her own English class at Brandywine High School. Tabron, whose lively and …
Schools start Tuesday, and âkids can be kidsâ again
Caesar Rodney School District students will be the first to return to school this fall, heading back on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Others such as Colonial start next week, but the majority head back after Labor Day. For the first time since March 2020, the spectre of COVID-19 will be shoved into the coat closet and largely left there. âKids can …
Delaware LIVE Weekly Review â August 14, 2022
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Weekâs Top Headlines Include: Headlines 3 candidates, 3 different visions for North Wilmington Hereâs how science of reading will look in classrooms Black doulas aim to reduce ethnic birth disparities 10,000-mile walk includes stop in Delaware State education test scores dismal, described as âcrisisâ Culture Bud Martin to leave …
Hereâs how science of reading will look in classrooms
Singing nursery rhymes, teaching letter sounds, and discussing what has been read are all ways you might see the science of reading incorporated into Delaware classrooms. Delawareâs 151st General Assembly raised awareness of using brain research to help students learn how to read when it passed a couple of bills that made using the science part of state law. Educators, …
Reading, teacher retention top successful 2022 education billsÂ
Rodel, a local nonprofit espousing better education in Delaware, calls the 151st General Assembly, which just ended, the âEducation General Assembly,â in regard to the number of education bills that passed. âThere’s more than 50 education bills this session and a 7% increase in the budget,â said Madeleine Bayard, senior vice president of Rodel. âThey got a lot done and …
Meet Delawareâs Teacher of the Year, Brandywineâs Jahsha Tabron
Jahsha Tabronâs passion for English and literature exploded after reading Shakespeareâs âHamletâ and âMacbethâ in her 11th grade honors English class in the Bronx. Thirty years later, Tabron â who is Delawareâs Teacher of the Year for 2022 â leads her own English class at Brandywine High School. Tabron, whose lively and passionate attitude explodes off the screen in …
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