Renaissance Success Stories
June 15, 2017
They just didn’t want to read. Rewards and incentives that usually worked for first graders held no sway. But between the start of the school year in September and the close of their reading program in late May, a tiny […]
April 24, 2017
“Miss Nelson, Miss Nelson, I need a new book!” He’s five, beaming with pride, and nearly dancing out of his sneakers as he spies Miss Nelson in the hallway. He can’t wait to tell her he’s just scored 100 percent […]
April 19, 2017
A less tenacious educator might have passed on such a teaching position. The opening was for a mathematics teacher at a small rural school plagued by seriously limited financial and staffing resources. Some 65 percent of the Pre-K–12 school’s total […]
March 24, 2017
In a world of multimedia technologies that can distract and even isolate students, educators must work ever more resourcefully to entice schoolchildren back to the basics of learning. Mary Scott, assistant principal at Peterson-Central Elementary in Weston, West Virginia, suggests […]
March 17, 2017
Nearly 13,000 students attend K–8 classes in the Broken Arrow Public Schools (BAPS) district in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. District educators expect each student to achieve reading and math literacy, actively engage in extracurricular activities, and ultimately graduate on to higher […]
January 23, 2017
Impacting instruction, offering flexibility: Diocese of Madison implements a student growth solution
Michael Flanagan’s parents were educators—music teachers, to be precise—and while that fact shaped his early life, he never imagined he would become one himself. “It wasn’t that I disliked the idea—I just never imagined going the same route,” he says. […]