Akron Public Schools chief academic officer dislikes words like achievement gap and at-risk students.
Ellen McWilliams-Woods, who also serves as the district s assistant superintendent, believes those terms discourage students and imply they are broken and must be saved by predominantly white teachers.
“Our students aren’t broken, she said. They’re absolutely brilliant. …Our students have the greatest perseverance, the greatest creative thinking skills, problem-solving skills. Their dedication to their own education is the strongest every single day, but we’ve got to be able to create those environments to let that absolutely flourish so that their own culture can be in the front of everything that they’re doing.”
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Heights Schools teachers got their first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. (Shutterstock)
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH Nearly 640 teachers and staff from the Heights Schools received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, the district announced.
Teachers and staff received the vaccine during a clinic at the Education Service Center of Northeast Ohio. Pharmacists from Giant Eagle administered the vaccine. I am thankful that CH-UH employees have been given the opportunity to receive their vaccines. The process today went smoothly thanks to the hard work of the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio and the medical professionals who provided excellent service and care for our staff, Superintendent Elizabeth Kirby told Patch in an emailed statement.
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The Heights Schools and Heights Teachers Union are sparring over reopening on March 1. (Chris Mosby, Patch)
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH After the Cleveland Heights Teachers Union lambasted the district for planning a March 1 return to in-person education, Superintendent Elizabeth Kirby has responded.
In an open letter to the union, Kirby said returning to classrooms by March 1 will get staffers vaccinated quicker than remaining remote through the end of the school year. She also said many students are suffering in the remote-only model. While teachers have worked hard to implement remote learning this year, as I review the attendance, assessment and grade data for the first semester, it is clear that remote learning is simply not meeting the needs of many of our students, Kirby wrote.
good morning. destruction and despair. a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leads to devastation in haiti. thousands feared dead, tens of thousands feared homeless as the full extent of the catastrophe is just starting to come to light today, wednesday, january 13th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. good morning, everybody. this is a major humanitarian disaster. overnight, the red cross estimated that some 3 million people have been affected by the strongest earthquake to hit haiti in more than 200 years. the imagines coming out of there just show just how devastating the situation is there, matt. the epicenter of the earthquake only about ten miles from the haitian capital of port-au-prince, where this morning the injured are being treated right in the streets, surrounded by debris from collapsed buildings, including a hospital and the national pala
good morning. destruction and despair. a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leads to devastation in haiti. thousands feared dead, tens of thousands feared homeless as the full extent of the catastrophe isust starting to come to light today, wednesday, january 13th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. good morning, everybody. this is a major humanitarian disaer. overnight, the red cross estimated that some 3 million people have been affected by the strongest earthquake to hit haiti in more than 200 years. the imagines coming out of there just show just how devastating the situation is there, matt. the epicenter of the earthquake only about ten miles from the haitian capital of port-au-prince, where this morning the injured are being treated right in the streets, surrounded by debris from collapsed buildings, including a hospital and the national palace.