Series: Extraordinary Districts

ExtraOrdinary Districts: Discussion of Lane, Oklahoma

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To discuss episode #2, in which we heard from educators in Lane and Cottonwood Oklahoma, are reading researcher Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois-Chicago’s Steve Tozer, and Todd Hughes of the Choctaw Nation.

ExtraOrdinary Districts Season 5: Where Are All Those Dollars Going?

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ExtraOrdinary Districts returns for a fifth season to look at how educators are using the $189 billion the federal government sent to schools to help them cope with the effects of the pandemic.

Districts That Succeed

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In the final episode of this season of ExtraOrdinary Districts, Tanji Reed Marshall interviews her co-host Karin Chenoweth about Chenoweth’s new book, Districts that Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race,…

Something That Was Already a Yeoman’s Job Has Become Even Greater.

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In this episode of The Education Trust’s podcast, ExtraOrdinary Districts, Jennie Black, principal of Washington Elementary School in Junction City, Kansas, is joined by third grade teachers Jennifer Fallin and…

We Keep Using That Word Hard.

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In this episode of The Education Trust’s podcast, ExtraOrdinary Districts, Corey Miklus, superintendent of Seaford Public Schools in Delaware is joined by principals Carol Leveillee and Krissy Jennette for a…

We Have a Third of Our Kids in Every Day. But One Hundred Percent of Our Students are Learning Every Single Day.

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“We have a third of our kids in every day. But one hundred percent of our students are learning every single day” In this episode of Season Four of The…

ExtraOrdinary Districts in ExtraOrdinary Times – Season Four

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In ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times, Karin Chenoweth interviews expert educators about the problems they face, the solutions they fashion, and what they hope will come out of this time.

As Soon as We’re Back to Normal, We’ll Have to Accelerate Our Kids.

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In this inaugural episode of Season Four of The Education Trust’s podcast, ExtraOrdinary Districts, Sergio Garcia, principal of Artesia High School in ABC Unified District in Los Angeles County, is…

ExtraOrdinary Districts – Season 4 is Coming!

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The Education Trust is about to launch Season 4 of ExtraOrdinary Districts. In our first two seasons we provided in-depth profiles of school districts that are breaking the correlation between…