Erin Brooks Vice President, Partnerships During my senior year of college as I was debating my next steps, I chose to begin a career in education. I taught for two years at a neighborhood elementary school in the South Bronx, and as everyone says, my first year of teaching was one of the most …
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Melissa Jones Clarke 2014 Ryan Award Winner When given the task of turning around a school, the first thing that one can see, touch, feel – and definitely smell – is the school culture, whether it may be awesome or abysmal. Just sit with a group of classroom teachers and listen. As a new …
Kothari Pranav Adjunct Lecturer of Social Enterprise, Kellogg School of Management We cite “best practices” all of the time in education. The exemplars, the models, and the idea that, “If we could only scale this strategy, all would be solved.” In some ways, the pursuit of best practices may be our collective way of …
Accelerator principal Liz Jamison-Dunn engages parents and community at Catalyst-Circle Rock in Chicago It’s no secret there are passionate debates today in the world of education—and educators often feel pressured to take a stand. At a macro level, we hear arguments both in support and in opposition to divisive topics such as charter schools, Common Core …
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