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Over the past several years, many school districts have shifted the role of their central office staff, moving away from jobs focused on compliance and management and more towards a role in helping principals becoming better instructional leaders. But little research exists that shows what central office staff need to do to fulfill that role of "principal coach" effectively. Meredith I. Honig, an associate professor for education and policy studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, delved into that question for a report published in the April 2012 edition of Educational Administration Quarterly.

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Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Banks, known around the world for pioneering the field of multicultural education, joined the UW faculty in 1969, and started the UW Center for Multicultural Education.

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Seattle Times
Want good teachers? Guest columnist Tom Stritikus says a number of factors contribute to teaching excellence, not only student test scores or teacher assessments. That's why, as dean of the University of Washington College of Education, he supports increased accountability for teacher preparation programs.
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Leading Equity

Ken Zeichner, Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, discusses where teacher preparation programs miss the mark on social justice and more in this podcast.

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SeattleTimes

Seattle has a year to figure out who should be its next superintendent of schools, someone different from the last one. No one has a good word to say about the recently departed Maria Goodloe-Johnson, but wasn't she our savior just a little while ago? In this op-ed, Seattle Times columnist, Jerry Large, praises Meredith Honig's collaborations with districts to help them redefine their core mission as education and learning.

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The Seattle Times

Professor Janine Jones, director of the UW's school psychology program, comments on the challenges facing Washington families in getting help for children with learning disabilities.

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Seattle Times
Teach for America is working to bring its corps of young college graduates here to teach in Seattle-area schools next fall. Tom Stritikus is quoted.
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The 74

Professor Emeritus Kenneth Zeichner discusses his research on the effectiveness of Relay Graduate School of Education in preparing a more diverse teaching corps.

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whitehouse.gov
Congats to Kareen Borders, current L4L4 student, on winning the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. It has been a big spring for Kareen as she also recently won the PBS Teachers® Innovation Award!
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Salon

Professor David Knight writes about a substantial and unprecedented spending boost by the federal government that presidential candidates are proposing (also published in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star).