Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
This blog post was written by Jody McVittie, MD, Executive Director, Sound Discipline and Terry Chadsey, MS Sound Discipline Board President. Read more about discipline and the school pushout issue on our website. To attend our Dec. 8th event in Tacoma, please RSVP here. In the Seattle School District, African American elementary school students are [...]
Hello. My name is Hannah Lidman. You care about education. Prepare to sign this petition: http://wachallenge.org/. As you may have heard, Washington is applying for – and actually has a real shot at winning – a $60 million Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant from the federal government for our statewide early learning [...]
The research is crystal clear that high-quality prekindergarten can and does makes a huge impact on the lives of children – both in the short- and long-term. But sometimes, it takes more than a “dusty, old policy brief” filled with numbers and charts to help us really understand the difference it can make. Sometimes, it [...]
Lynn Lentz, second grade teacher at Delong Elementary in Tacoma, is the teacher who helped Felicia Reeve’s second grade granddaughter improve in reading. With 30 years teaching experience, Lynn believes we can improve kids’ academic performance by: 1) Delaying entrance to kindergarten until kids are intellectually mature enough 2) Not insisting that all kids be [...]
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Kristin Bailey-Fogarty is a Seattle teacher and a LEV board member. My father gladly paid taxes. “We have to pay for things,” he’d say. As a child I understood that the roads I zoomed over on my Schwinn, the parks I played in, the lifeguards who protected me, the librarians who loaded me up (heavenly) [...]
