{"id":107777,"date":"2026-01-01T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:20:07","slug":"how-e-d-walker-principal-ashley-toole-has-brought-up-the-schools-accountability-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/107777\/","title":{"rendered":"How E.D. Walker principal Ashley Toole has brought up the school&#8217;s accountability rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe empathy interviews, while seemingly simple, were something we hadn\u2019t prioritized in decision-making,\u201d Toole says. \u201cAsking students to reflect on their classroom environment and experiences transformed our approach to supporting EB students. We discovered that engaging parents early was critical to success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For Toole, the experience has helped her adopt what she calls a \u201cthink big, act small\u201d approach, testing ideas with a single class or teacher over a short period before deciding whether to expand them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften, we look at data, come up with a research-based idea, and immediately decide, \u2018Yes, we all need to do that!\u2019 without first identifying unforeseen barriers or balancing effectiveness with practicality,\u201d Toole says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe empathy interviews, while seemingly simple, were something we hadn\u2019t prioritized in decision-making,\u201d Toole says. \u201cAsking students to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-107777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}