Dr. Oz and Lisa Oz talk with principal Salome Thomas-El, contributor on the Dr. Oz Show, about how to be a positive role model for children.
The next time President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are sitting together discussing education reform, I hope that it will be across the table from one of my elementary or middle school students. If so, there will inevitably be a chessboard between them, and I am certain my students will win every match...
I figured it would be only a matter of time before Salome Thomas-EL would graduate from being Philadelphia’s Principal to America’s Principal. Anyone who’s seen the 45-year-old Thomas-EL - the veteran teacher and administrator who most recently spent three years as principal of Russell Byers
She took the time to ask whether her students had eaten breakfast in the morning, or if they had enough warm clothes to wear in winter, or if there was someone there for them when they got home from school. My English teacher, Marsha Pincus, did all that and more for me when I was growing up in inner-city Philadelphia, one of eight kids raised by a single mother.
Participants talked about literacy rates and reading levels of youth in the black community, the quality of education in urban and predominantly black schools, as well as successful reading…