Middle and High School Students to Use Digital Mapping Technology to Showcase Delaware
The Delaware Department of Education, in conjunction with the state’s geospatial education community, encourages Delaware middle and high school students to join Esri’s 2023 ArcGIS webapp competition. Students are challenged to create and share interactive mapping projects using ESRI ArcGIS software. Delaware entrants to this national competition must create a digital map or Story map that highlights facts and features unique to Delaware.
12 Schools Honored For Students’ Academic Achievement
Secretary of Education Mark Holodick commends 12 schools from across the state for their students’ growth and progress toward English language proficiency.
District/Charter Educational Support Professionals of the Year Celebrated; One to be Named State Honoree
The Delaware Department of Education is honoring 20 educational support professionals for their outstanding work supporting their students and school communities.
Delaware Wins Federal Grant to Support Cleaner School Buses
The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) has been awarded an $809,000 federal grant to purchase one propane and three electric school buses for the Colonial School District through the federal Clean School Bus Rebate Program. Nationally, these awards are part of the first $1 billion of a five-year, $5 billion program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, championed by Delaware’s Congressional delegation of Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) and signed into law by President Joe Biden in November 2021.
Milford Teacher Named Delaware 2023 Teacher of the Year
A fifth-grade teacher from the Milford School District is Delaware’s 2023 State Teacher of the Year. Ashley Lockwood of LuLu Ross Elementary School now is Delaware’s nominee for National Teacher of the Year. She will use her position to advocate for historically underserved populations of students.
