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Experienced educators know that collaboration is the key to success. For students and teachers alike, there is incredible, unparalleled power in peer learning. So after we saw two of our schools in McDowell County Schools benefit greatly from partnering with Schools That Lead, getting more of the schools in our district involved was a logical next step.…
Two of the Career and Technical Education course clusters offered at McDowell High School have students learning more than just the basics of business and finance. The Business Management and Administrative and Finance course clusters offer students a variety of real-world financial skills they can use in the financial world or in their own business one day.…
It was the teacher in Steve North who connected the dots. North, a Wisconsin native, was fated, it would seem, to be a doctor. His father was one, and folks always said he himself had what it takes to be a good one.…
Imagine you’re at your annual physical, chit chatting with your doctor. After sharing a bit about the virtual collaboration work you’ve been pursuing as a teacher, something that has allowed you to grow your skills and learn from your peers, you discover she doesn’t value the same type of collaborative teamwork with her peers.…
The NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) released school performance grades in September, and an update of previous maps in the Consider It Mapped series on the topic reveals that the overall distribution of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs is similar to last year’s, even with changes to the measures included in this year’s formula.…
