While the daily announcements droned over the intercom Wednesday morning at East High School a passionate posse of volunteers was assembling in the auditorium. The announcements were routine stuff: cheerleading and soccer tryouts; congratulations to qualifiers for the …
This article is part of a series of reports on how support from the Wallace Foundation is making a difference at Des Moines Public Schools. In June 2014, DMPS was awarded a substantial grant by the Wallace Foundation to improve teaching …
Yeah, right, skeptics told Lyn Marchant when she shared her plan to offer a one–week computer literacy course at Scavo High School during Spring Break. Good luck getting teens to sign up for that. The 15 openings were …
Congratulations are in order for Joe McCright who besides teaching Spanish at Stowe Elementary is the Building Technology Specialist there. He has been named a 2016 LearningMedia Digital Innovator by the Public Broadcasting Service. As Iowa’s lone award-winner, …
This article part of a series of reports on how support from the Wallace Foundation is making a difference at Des Moines Public Schools. In June 2014, DMPS was awarded a substantial grant by the Wallace Foundation to improve teaching …
