A curious thing happened on the way to hiring new teachers in the Madison School District this fall.
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Cortez Evans, a newly hired teacher in the Madison School District, sets up his fourth-grade classroom at Gompers Elementary School. He uses fitness balls instead of chairs to encourage the release of nervous energy and to increase cognition.
Cortez Evans creates a "behavior chart" for his fourth-grade classroom at Gompers Elementary School. Each clothespin represents a pupil, and its placement on the stick reflects that child's behavior.
Cortez Evans, a newly hired teacher in the Madison School District, sets up his fourth-grade classroom at Gompers Elementary School. He uses fitness balls instead of chairs to encourage the release of nervous energy and to increase cognition.
Eli Pollak, an eighth-grader at Hamilton Middle School in Madison, has started a fund to award trips to students from needy familes.
It's unclear when the Madison School Board will take up a proposal to buy a program its creators say can better predict whether prospective te…
The principals of all four main public high schools are either new this year or beginning their second year.
They will work full time at 22 elementary schools, instead of part time at all 32 elementary schools, and they will do more direct tutoring.
