The Wilmington Learning Collaborative says it needs three extra months to set performance requirements for the schools itās overseeing. That means the organization will have to go back to the Brandywine, Christina and Red Clay districts for permission to move the deadline from March 31 to June 30. The performance requirements include setting goals through written agreements with the three …
Partnership was the word of the night in the Wilmington Learning Collaborativeās January meeting Tuesday night.Ā Dorrell Green, superintendent of Red Clay Consolidated School District and a member of the governing council for the group, said they need to make sure they spend the millions of state funding wisely while strengthening community partnerships with groups that provide help, such as …
Data on some of the high-needs and underperforming schools of the city of Wilmington was shared Wednesday night. In the Red Clay Consolidated School Districtās monthly board meeting, Laura Burgos, executive director of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative, presented assessment highlights on the nine schools involved in the agency. The Wilmington Learning Collaborative, a state agency created in November 2022 with …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has hired two directors and completed one element of school assessments needed to begin implementing programs to improve student outcomes. Laura Burgos, the executive director of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative, shared updates of recent work at the governing councilās monthly meeting Tuesday night. āIām very excited to say that all nine of our WLC partner schools …
Two Wilmington organizations focused on helping city students excel ā the Redding Consortium and the Wilmington Learning Collaborative ā have started to determine how they will work together. āWe are at a point now where we really can give a high level introduction to what we think that’s going to look like,ā said Sen. Elizabeth āTizzyā Lockman, D-Wilmington, co-chair of …
The new head of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative pushed back Tuesday night on suggestions that the new agency expand to include more city elementary schools. āThis is a long journey, this is going to take many years to get our schools where they need to be,ā saidĀ Laura Burgos, the groupās executive director.Ā Thatās not going to happen by adding …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborativeās governing council voted Tuesday night for a budget containing various programs intended to improve outcomes for city students.Ā The budget is for this fiscal year, which concludes June 30, 2024. It totals $16,632,690.20, with $10 million set in the state budget for this year, and the other $6,632,690.20 is carryover funds from last year.Ā Executive Director …
The Redding Consortium expects its equity data dashboard to be completed and open for use by the public in spring 2024. The dashboard, which has been in the works for months, will include both student and educator data, broken down by several metrics. The Consortium creates and recommends policies and practices to the governor and General Assembly that will help …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative seems to have more focus and direction, with a timeline and five-phase approach to its 2023-2024 planning year unveiled this week. The collaborativeās Tuesday night meeting was the first led by its newly hired executive director, Laura Burgos. RELATED: WLC gets another planning year after Brandywine vote The collaborative is a state agency created in November …
As First State public schools reopen next week, most students wonāt see much difference in the day-to-day workings of the classroom. But thereās a lot going on in the background. Many districts will be adopting new science and math curriculums designed to help counter the stateās dismal test scores ā and continue the battle against COVID-19 learning loss. More mental …
