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New Student Orientations Help Scholars to Hit the Ground Running for the 2009-10 School Year  To an outside observer entering a classroom at Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant during the second week of school, it might appear that the Kindergarten students have been in class for months. Four and five-year old boys are quietly paying attention to their lesson and concentrating on their papers, carefully drawing during a letter recognition exercise ...Click here to read more... |
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Williamsburg Collegiate 8th Graders Learn Civil Rights History Lesson Through Pass It On Project  After watching the speech that the late Senator Robert Kennedy gave the night that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Monica Bintz and Audrey Harris, a science teacher and a history teacher at Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, New York, began thinking about ways in which they could talk with their students about race. In light of President Obama's Inauguration ...Click here to read more... |
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Engineer Finds Fulfillment in Building School Systems as Uncommon's First Network COO  For Michael Ambriz, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the North Star Academy network, a particular college Sociology course was a life-changing experience. Although he was studying Electrical Engineering, it was when he enrolled in "Intergroup Conflict and Prejudice" as a senior at UCLA that he realized the path he wanted his life to take. Reflecting back on his decision to forego ...Click here to read more... |
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Uncommon Teachers and Leaders "Make It Just"  This July, in Tarrytown, New York, a select group of urban educators gathered to share ideas and knowledge, improve their teaching techniques, deepen friendships, and barbeque in the great outdoors. Summer at Uncommon Schools is always a busy time of preparation for the upcoming school year, and for teachers and school leaders it is also a time to hone their leadership and instructional ...Click here to read more...
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