2013
"We can no longer afford pockets of excellence. We want to make sure that every, every, every child in Duplin County experiences what early-college students are experiencing."
-2013 Leader To Learn From Austin Obasohan
2014
"I truly believe that despite whatever difficulties and background a child has, if you encourage and support them and create opportunities for them, they can do or be whatever they want to."
-2014 Leader To Learn From Gail Pletnick
2015
"Here we are in a majority-minority district, and our leaders didn't see that our African-American male students could be a success. We had to change the narrative that had normalized failure in black children."
-2015 Leader To Learn From Christopher Chatmon
2016
"I go into this by telling each teacher, 'You're valuable, I know you’re valuable. Let’s take a look at what happened this year.’ "
-2016 Leader To Learn From Renee Pryor
2017
"Given our demographics, developing literacy skills in English and Spanish is incredibly important; promoting the frequency of families reading is incredibly important. We wanted the technology to support that above all."
-2017 Leader To Learn From César Morales
