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What’s happening around town Manual High School Chalkbeat Colorado recently did an excellent job reporting on the most recent changes at Manual and the tragic history of the school in a four-part special series. A+ Denver’s Van Schoales commented on this issue in part one & two of the series and in the Denver Post.…
Originally Posted by The Denver Post on January 17, 2014. Copyright © denverpost.com. Written by Kevin Simpson. Read here. Denver’s beleaguered Manual High School named former middle school principal Don Roy to take over leadership a day after Brian Dale abruptly left the school, apparently at the district’s request. Dale has overseen the latest version of…
Originally Posted by Colorado Public Radio on January 14, 2014. Copyright © cpr.org. Written by Jenny Brundin. Read here. Public schools in Colorado that have greater control over hiring teachers, setting the school calendar and budgeting show slightly higher levels of student academic growth and high levels of teacher empowerment, according to a CU Denver report…
Originally Posted by Colorado Public Radio on January 14, 2014. Copyright © cpr.org. Written by Jenny Brundin. Read here. Public schools in Colorado that have greater control over hiring teachers, setting the school calendar and budgeting show slightly higher levels of student academic growth and high levels of teacher empowerment, according to a CU Denver report…
Originally Posted by the Pueblo Chieftain on January 13, 2014. Copyright © chieftain.com. Written by Gayle Perez. Read here. Some of the state’s lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60) — are in worse shape today than before they received more than $60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a…
Originally Posted by Chalkbeat Colorado on January 13, 2014. Copyright © co.chalkbeat.org. Written by Nicholas Garcia. Read here. Denver innovation schools aren’t outperforming similar campuses tied to district bureaucracy, according to a report released today. Students at Denver Public Schools that operate under “innovation” agreements showed higher level of academic growth, the most highly scrutinized measures…
News Release Monday, January 13, 2014 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A+ Denver (303) 725-1151 van@aplusdenver.org Year Three Innovation Schools Study shows small differences in school culture, student achievement and workforce capacity between Innovation schools and comparison group A+ Denver, Colorado Education Association, Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and Denver Public Schools released part three of an evaluation…
Originally Posted by Chalkbeat Colorado on January 9, 2014. Copyright © co.chalkbeat.org. Written by Kate Schimel and Nicholas Garcia. Read here. When Manual High School re-opened in August 2007 after a year of empty hallways, news reports described its transformation as a test of Denver’s aggressive slate of education reforms. The now-defunct Rocky Mountain News…
Originally Posted by Chalkbeat Colorado on January 8, 2014. Copyright © co.chalkbeat.org. Written by Nicholas Garcia and Kate Schimel. Read here. Teacher Ben Butler was optimistic when Brian Dale became principal at Manual High School in 2011. The school had been without a leader for a year, ever since the principal who spearheaded its turnaround,…
Originally Posted by Chalkbeat Colorado on January 7, 2014. Copyright © co.chalkbeat.org. Written by Kate Schimel and Nicholas Garcia. Read here. The teachers had turned the classroom into an instructional war room. The walls were covered with bar graphs, hand-drawn in magic marker. Yearbook photos appended each graph, showing the faces of the students whose…