This summer, the Delaware Academy for School Leadership (DASL), a professional development and policy center in UD’s College of Education and Human Development, partnered with the Laurel School District for a summer program funded by the Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant.  Dedicated teachers and paraprofessionals spent most of their summer vacation in the classroom helping students prepare for the 2013-14 school year. The program provided daily academic instruction for 85 incoming kindergarteners and first graders at Dunbar Elementary School.  Read more….