EDITORIAL New Envision project helps area educators

ON THE WEB To learn more about other Envision 2020 projects for the River Region, go to: www.envision2020.org/ Anyone who doubts that public school educators want to provide the best education they can for students should have attended the first meeting of the River Region Principals and Teachers Leadership Academy on Saturday morning. The new academy, sponsored by Envision 2020, plans to provide ongoing leadership training for principals and lead teachers in the five-county area that the organization serves -- Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon and Montgomery. The initial meeting was hosted by the Montgomery Advertiser Saturday morning, and 60 principals and teachers and two superintendents Carlinda Purcell from Montgomery County and Jeff Langham from Elmore County heard a consultant discuss ways to improve student writing as well as scores on the state writing assessment given each spring. The first program was coordinated by the Montgomery Public School System, which brought in a dynamic reading consultant and author to lead the workshop. When more than 60 educators give up a Saturday morning without compensation to drive to Montgomery to learn about ways to improve student learning, it says volumes about their dedication to their craft. We applaud the Envision 2020 organization for helping to organize the academy, as well as the superintendents and curriculum directors in the school systems in the River Region who support it. But most of all, we salute those participants who took this opportunity to learn new ways to help their students.

 

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