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Striking Balance as Department Chair

September 13, 2023 | Jennifer Hansen

I hate meetings.  This is not a secret; I’m always happy to share my feelings on the drain that meetings affect upon me.  The torture of sitting and listening after a long day.  The four o’clock fog.  The...

Program Highlights

Public Learning Promotes Vulnerability and Courage

September 13, 2023 | Brooklyn Joseph

It was mid-afternoon, about 15 minutes into our Instructional Leadership Team meeting at one of our partner schools.  When it was the next teacher leader’s turn to be our Public Learner, about one...

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Explorations in Tier II Vocabulary Instruction

June 6, 2023 | Shelley Goulder

As an English Language Development teacher, I want to empower students to understand how English works. In service of this goal, my students and I embarked on a year-long prefix-based vocabulary study to increase their Tier...

Teacher Voices

Creating Space for Focal Student Partnerships

May 14, 2023 | Andrea Prichett

It was a cycle I had been through before; choose focal students and watch them slip like water through my fingers.  In a school district that has become predominantly White in recent years, I felt it...

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Leading From Behind: Reflections from the District

April 17, 2023 | Vernon Walton

In the fall of 2021, I was appointed to my first district-level position as a Director of Secondary Education. After fourteen years of experience as a site administrator; seven years as a high school assistant principal and seven...