Coordinator of the Year
 Video: Watch Ms. Goodwin's interview.
by Shannon Overbeck
In January 2008, the Alabama Federation for the Council of Exceptional Children honored Khristie Goodwin with the 2007-2008 Margaret Vann Award for Outstanding Special Education Coordinator. For the last seven years, Ms. Goodwin has been a special education coordinator for the Oxford City School System. She is a demonstrated leader in her district, as well as across the state of Alabama, and is instrumental in the implementation of research-based reading and math programs, including the Voyager Universal Literacy System®, Voyager Passport™ and Vmath®.
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Reading Success
at Gracewood Elementary in Richmond County, Georgia
For the past five years, Gracewood Elementary School in Richmond County, Georgia, has been recognized as a Title I Distinguished School and Principal, Mary Braswell strongly believes that accomplishment has a lot to do with Voyager.
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Monument Valley High School
Achieving Significant Academic Success
Kayenta, Arizona is located on the Navajo Reservation just twenty-one miles southwest of picturesque Monument Valley, often described as the seventh wonder of the world. The diverse and rich community has achieved something quite rare – the ability of an indigenous people to blend traditional heritage with a modern way of life. The culture has focused on retaining and passing on their unique cultural legacy to future generations. And until recently, achieving significant academic growth was a distant aspiration, not a realistic possibility.
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Recent Stories
Fallen Between the Cracks
In rural Kentucky near the West Virginia border is the small town of Feds Creek, home to Feds Creek Elementary School.
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Shiprock
Located in northwestern New Mexico, in the primarily Navajo town of Shiprock, named after the volcanic monument local Navajos call "Tse Bitai" meaning "the winged rock," is the Community School known as Atsa' Biya' a'zh.
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Videos
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Literacy Solutions: Kayenta takes you inside the elementary and middle school reading programs in this modern Native American community. |
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Math Madness: Watch Brooklyn students from multiple schools get wild about math in this exciting Vmath Live competition. |
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Adolescent Literacy: Bob Pasternack, Don Deshler and others discuss adolescent literacy issues–teachers and students in a Miami Beach school presentation. |
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Khristie Goodwin, Special Education Coordinator of the Year from Oxford City, Alabama, describes the community of educators that makes her different populations successful. |
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