As the news of Tom Boasberg’s departure ricocheted through the local and national education community, critics and champions of the Denver schools superintendent sounded off.
Tom Boasberg, who today announced his plans to step down as Denver’s schools superintendent, leaves behind nearly a decade of high-profile debates and decisions that reshaped the city’s public school system and made plenty of local and national headlines.
Teachers are often on the front lines of national conversations, kickstarting discussions that their students or communities need to have.
The extraordinary vote to strike in Pueblo took place as teachers across the country have left their classrooms over demands for better salaries and more funding.
While many of the improvement strategies used by this Colorado rural school district are familiar, they’ve been retrofitted to meet the district's needs.
The Teach-Off featured two teams of teachers, a panel of expert judges, a live audience, and a rich discussion on the craft of teaching all at the SXSW EDU conference.
So they say students, especially those from low-income families, often need information they can relate too to help them better understand math.
The two math teachers believe students learn best when they’re bouncing ideas, equations, and questions off each other.
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First elected in 2012, Mazanec represent the state’s 4th Congressional District, which includes most of the Eastern Plains.