“Oh my God, it’s so good now, so much better,” one Edison High teacher said. “Now, you see more people smiling.”
A few months before Lillian Izzard took over as principal of Edison High, she walked through the sprawling school on West Luzerne Street with a notebook, taking pictures with her phone.
“I was one of six in a single-parent home, and I went to work to help my mother,” said Izzard. “I had to help raise my five siblings.” “Any one of those students at Edison could have been me,” Izzard said. “My colleague said, ‘Go, bring your systems, provide opportunities for your students.’”“All I know is that Edison’s always been painted in a negative light. But these kids — my kids here — are the same kids as my kids at Fels, the kids at Central. These are children, why are we painting this picture? I wanted to change that, to change the school from the inside out.
Comprehensive high schools such as Edison take every student who walks in the door, regardless of need. And students’ needs are great, with significant numbers living in foster care, experiencing homelessness, returning to school from incarceration or inpatient services. Gun violence and trauma are a common backdrop.
“Guess what? That day, we saw no cell phones,” she said. “I don’t tolerate disruption of instruction.”
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