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Sarah Fish

Title Peer Evaluator
Organization Hillsborough County Public Schools

Sarah Fish is currently serving as a peer evaluator with the Empowering Effective Teachers initiative in Hillsborough County, Florida. Prior to this role, she has served as a reading and writing resource teacher (K-5), instructional consultation team facilitator (K-5), and preschool special education teacher. Sarah began her teaching career in 2001 and has worked in both Virginia and Florida. She is a member of the Center for Teaching Quality’s Hillsborough New Millennium Initiative.

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What I Learned About Teaching from Observing My Peers

July 06, 2012 / Sarah Fish

Serving as a peer evaluator of other teachers has taught one teacher a lot about her own practice

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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