- Here’s a nice look at a career fair sponsored by Elyria City Schools staffers. For the second year in a row, a raft of local employers looking to hire talented young people set up booths and talked to high school students about jobs available now and about what skills kids should be looking to acquire before they graduate. Very nice. Interesting to note that, for some unknown reason, the pandemic was the impetus for creation of this event rather than, say, regular life. (The Chronicle-Telegram, 4/5/23)
- We have been hearing from some quarters (you know who I mean) that Governor DeWine’s push to enshrine the science of learning in state law—and especially the concurrent push to eliminate the other yucky literacy curricula permanently—is limiting on teacher autonomy. However, in this piece, we see that Akron City Schools has a) been working for a few years to make the science of reading ubiquitous throughout the district without any push from the top, and b) been using a number of different curricula to accomplish this goal. You would be forgiven for not knowing there were lots of phonics-based choices for teachers and principals to choose from given the anti-DeWine rhetoric. But it’s all right here in black and white. Case closed? I would certainly hope so. (Akron Beacon Journal, 4/4/23)
Did you know you can have every edition of Gadfly Bites sent directly to your Inbox? Subscribe by clicking here.
