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Council of the Great City Schools Selects Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore as the 2023 Recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice

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After retiring from the Berkeley faculty, Fillmore has worked with educators in urban school districts to improve academic language and literacy instruction for English learners and multilingual learners. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com. See CGCS.org.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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acquired Wireless Generation in 2010, then made ambitious bets on devices, curriculum, and games. As principals do classroom walkthroughs, they look for specific instruction based in the curriculum, rather than an academic standard dutifully written on the chalkboard but ignored. We wound up having two unusual exits.