Reports and Board Documents
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Remediation to Acceleration: How SummerQuest Transformed Summer Learning
Every summer, students soak in the joys of school break while educators and parents face a lingering homework assignment: how can communities help children avoid summer learning loss while fostering an environment for accelerated learning? For the Wilmington Learning Collaborative (WLC) and its partner schools, SummerQuest was created to address that question, and what started…
Wildcat Wednesdays at Shortlidge Academy: Expanding Opportunities for Young Learners
Across schools in the Wilmington Learning Collaborative, students, educators, and community partners are coming together each week for enrichment activities designed to empower students, inspire creativity, and make learning engaging and joyful. At Shortlidge Academy, that commitment has taken shape through an initiative known as Wildcat Wednesdays. Held once a week, Wildcat Wednesday dedicates an…
Educator Pathways, Built With Purpose: Investing in Wilmington’s Educators and Students
Three years ago, when Melanie Santiago Rosado began her journey as an educator, working at Pulaski Early Education Center as an instructional paraprofessional, she knew she had a passion for leading in the classroom, but as a mother of three, working full-time, she wasn’t sure when or how she might be able to take the…
Six Months In: The Chill Room™ Initiative Continues to Transform Wilmington Classrooms
Since its official launch in March, the Wilmington Learning Collaborative’s (WLC) Chill Room™ Initiative has been quietly changing the way students and educators approach behavioral health at The Bayard School and Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy. The rooms, designed as safe, calming spaces where students can learn to manage stress and regulate emotions, have already become…