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Upcoming Events
Response to Intervention Symposium
The Delaware State Education Association and the Delaware DOE are sponsoring a symposium on Responsive Intervetion (RTI). for more information and to register,
click here.
National Endowment for the Humanities 2010 Summer Study Opportunities Educators are encouraged to apply now for 2010 summer study opportunities in the humanities. Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports national residential seminars, institutes, and workshops located in the U.S. and abroad. Program participants receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses. The application deadline for 2010 summer programs is March 2. For more information, click here.
Partners in PolicyMaking 2010
Partners in PolicyMaking is an innovative leadership trainning program offered through the Parent Information Center of Delaware that teachers people to be community leaders. The program is designed for parents raising young or school-aged children with a developmental disbility or young adults with developmental disabilities. Two-day sessions in the year 2010 will be held as follows: February 19-20, March 5-6, April 9-10, May 22-23, June 18-19, July 23-24, August 20-21, and September 10-11. For more information,
click here.
Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Mind Trust is excepting applications for its Education
Entrepreneur Fellowship, a nationally unique incubator for
transformative education ventures designed to solve public education’s most
vexing problems. The Fellowship offers promising education entrepreneurs the
opportunity to develop and launch their break-the-mold education ventures. During the two-year Fellowship, Fellows receive a full-time salary
($90,000/year), full benefits, a $20,000 start-up stipend and the professional
support and mentoring necessary to turn a promising idea into a successful
educational venture with large-scale, transformational benefits for children. Fellowship ventures target underserved
or disadvantaged populations with solutions that attack the root problems in the
delivery of public education. The Fellowship is for people who envision entirely
new approaches to the challenges of public education and who possess the
entrepreneurial skill necessary to turns their ideas into reality. To apply, click here.
Past Events
Governor Jack Markell, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Speak at 2009 Vision 2015 Forum
On Tuesday, October 27, Delaware took the spotlight of education reform as we welcomed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the leadership forum, Vision 2015 and Delaware's Race to the Top.
Secretary Duncan provided the keynote address at the conference, which also featured Governor Jack Markell, Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery, and Vision 2015 Chair Skip Schoenhals. Panels of national and local experts also discussed how Delaware can recruit and retain more highly effective teachers and how we can meet the critical needs of chronically low-performing schools.
Watch the videos:
Patrick Harker, Skip Schoenhals, Lillian Lowery - Welcome and Progress Update
Session One- Ensuring Highly Effective Teachers for All Delaware Students
Session Two- Turning Around Our Lowest- Performing Schools
Secretary Arne Duncan, Keynote Address
Governor Jack Markell
Download the speeches:
Patrick Harker, President, University of Delaware
Marvin N. "Skip" Schoenhals, Chair, Vision 2015, and Chairman, WSFS Bank
Lillian M. Lowery, Secretary, Delaware Department of Education (Coming soon!)
Jack Markell, Governor, State of Delaware
View the presentations:
Sandi Jacobs, Vice President for Policy, National Council on Teacher Quality
Crystal Harmon, Partner, Policy and Research, The New Teacher Project
Andre Cowling, Principal, The Harvard School of Excellence, Chicago
William H. Guenther, President and Founder, Mass Insight Education & Research Institute
Visit the Media Center for more news coverage from the conference.
2008 Vision 2015 Forum
Last year, Vision 2015 was the focus of a daylong leadership forum, Making Vision 2015 Work, held at the University of Delaware on October 2, 2008. Keynote speaker Sir Michael Barber, former senior advisor to Tony Blair who helped to transform the UK's public education system, spoke about America's declining public education and the economic implications. The day also included panel discussions focusing on the educational needs of business, requirements for quality early childhood education, and the work underway through the Vision Network of schools.
Download speeches:
Sir Michael Barber
Marvin “Skip” Schoenhals
View podcasts of both speeches:
Sir Michael Barber
Marvin "Skip" Schoenhals
Download videos shown at event:
View from a Skate Park
Vision Network
View conference photos.