Five years after Bates Middle School in Annapolis MD was transformed into an arts integrated learning environment, the school is unrecognizable. Significant gains have been made across all areas of student work, students show up for class, and student disciplinary issues have sharply declined. In just 5 years since Diane Bragdon became principal and subsequently
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Under a federal grant program to encourage performance-based pay and reward effective teachers and administrators, $290 million was awarded to 35 recipients nationwide. LAUSD and three Los Angeles based charter school networks will receive $49.2 million, awarded by the Teacher Incentive Fund, according to Barbara Jones of the DailyNews.com. Green Dot Public Schools is one
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Take a moment to think about your daily routine and the extent to which technology is involved. This morning I was awakened by my iphone courtesy of Smart Alarm Clock (app) which ensures a “comfortable awakening” by monitoring my sleep cycles. I downloaded my to do list from Google, caught up on the news via Pulse News, and checked
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My best experience as a teacher in 2012: taking seventy first graders hiking in Franklin Canyon. While that might sound to some like one of Dante’s levels, it was an awesome experience. Only a few of the students had ever been to a national park or ever gone hiking, and the field trip completely
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This Friday June 8th, Responsibly will be co-hosting Mix and Mingle Fridays at the Hub LA. We are excited about this opportunity to join the Hub LA community, share Responsibly and talk about education. More information below. To RSVP click here (in case you were wondering, its free!) Starting next week, Responsibly will be taking up a
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Within education there remains a constant struggle for charter schools to gain funding. A charter school receives public donations from the state in exchange for accountability in producing educational goals laid out in the school’s charter. Charter schools are not allowed to charge tuition but they provide an alternate opportunity to other public schools. Often
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Public education currently is a far cry from its former (semi)glory. The days of wood shop glass art and small size classes are slowly dwindling away as California public schools face greater and greater budget cuts every year. Until College, I have only attended public school. Now, I attend Claremont Mckenna College, a very wealthy private
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Our primary and secondary education is generally standard across the board, for almost every student in the nation sits through a lecture on the constitutional convention and on Shakespeare’s Othello. In the near future, this may not be there case. The education system in America is reforming, and whether or not it is for the
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On April 5th Antoine and I had the opportunity of going to a project fair at Da Vinci Design High SChool. Alain Bonnie, a Teach for America teacher, invited us to Exhibition Night at Da Vinci and after listening to his description of it we couldn’t miss it. Mr. Bonnie or “Bon Bon” as his
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Spring Break 2012 was an epic experience for me. I got to experience first hand how a small initiative, led by college students, has a capacity to benefit large amounts of people. I, along with 16 of my fellow college students (all part of our school’s service club, Rotaract) completed an international service project in
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My name is Lily Hammer; I am sophomore at Pitzer College from Portland, Oregon. I have been researching the educational system and high school drop outs. The term “dropouts” often evokes ideas such as deviance, dysfunction, cultural deficiency, and an individual lack of drive. Society puts blame on individuals who dropout of high school, even
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My name is Elise Hansell, and I am a college freshman at Claremont McKenna College. Both of my parents are educators and work in the greater Dallas area. My parents are passionate about education, and while they stressed the importance of diligent schoolwork, I do not think these values would have made such an impact
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