Getting your player ready...
Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post
Principals from across the country including Tanesia Simmons of KIPP St. Louis, recently gathered in Denver for a two-week “graduate school” program.Re: “,” July 3 news story.
With a background of having served as a classroom educator for 40 years, I was encouraged by your article. To read about higher retention rates for both teachers and students as a direct result of academic training is a significant step in educational progress. That knowledge is essential. But I was even more encouraged by Principal Kimberly Grayson’s comment about the heart of education: “You have to make a culture in your building where teachers want to stay and kids want to come to school.”
Education is about both knowledge and passion.
Gordon Van Zanten, Golden
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