Last year staff of McCarver Elementary School accepted Tacoma Housing Authority's challenge to look at some kind of improved or reformed teaching model for the school as part of a program to provide stability to 50 low-income students. Early this school y

Michael Power is a career educator, Manager of Educational Programs at Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) and author of the booklet, "Reading with Children." Power is working to ensure "that the children of our families (in public housing) do not become our

Troy Christensen is the administrator of homeless programs for Pierce County, former chair of Pierce County Coalition to End Homelessness, and former chair of Washington State Coalition for the Homeless who fears that we are living in a seemingly endless

Scott Markowitz, is a 4th grade teacher at Christensen Elementary School in Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma who became interested in the idea of using developmental assets in his teaching. Developmental assets are individual resources that young

Beth Sigall, attorney, special education advocate, and mother of three children, (including one with autism), believes the aim of the school district should be to put every special education advocate out of business. She was inspired to become an advocate

Greg Eisnaugle is the principal of Lincoln Center, a college prep program designed for underprivileged students at Lincoln High School. Inspired by a 60 Minutes story on KIPP Academy, Eisnaugle modeled and implemented KIPP's successful formula to close th

Vicky McKinney is the program director for the parent training information and training program at Partnerships for Action and Voices for Empowerment. She started her journey in advocacy when she adopted a foster child whom she later learned had been diag

In the final entry of a three-part series focused on school funding, we talk with Susan Enfield, the Interim Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. During our discussion, Enfield discusses maintaining professional growth and support for teachers an

We were lucky enough to be joined by Rep. Ross Hunter (D - 48th) for a lunchtime conference call on what's to come for the state budget, and in particular, what that means for education. Rep. Hunter, Chair of Ways and Means Committee, talked about what th

Robert Brown, a 39-year teaching veteran, believes that Tacoma's social promotion policy in the primary grades has to end if we're to reduce the achievement gap. "Tacoma has a notorious problem with promoting kids with a 0.0 grade point average from midd