The three-story homes on Biddle Street, boarded up, blistered and blighted, may not look very different from their neighbors up and down the street. But pretty soon, they’ll take on a new purpose in the neighborhood.
"It makes my heart so happy that students are coming together to share their experiences and they feel safe doing it," says Superintendent Laurie Dent. "We finally made it safe to talk about race in this district."
Sharing a common purpose—and a common mascot—has had wider impacts on academics and even building design in Missouri's Grandview C-4 School District, Superintendent Kenny Rodrequez attests.
Orchard View Middle School's project-driven, small group learning experiment aims to make students' transitions from elementary to middle school more seamless and academically engaging.
The medical community doesn't have a full grasp on just how social media affects the health of students but a new report offers some solutions without calling for an outright ban.
A serious problem has presented itself. A corrosive combination of onerous re-enrollment requirements, arcane paperwork and the everyday obstacles of poverty—a nonworking phone, a missing backpack, the loss of a car—is in many cases preventing children from going back to school.
Teachers could be moved into other positions as DISD revamps courses in efforts to put more students on career and college pathways, Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said.
