Hold Fast to Dreams author Joshua Steckel discusses college access challenges for low-income students with Andrew DeBalco. Steckel is the college counselor at our Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies.
Hold Fast to Dreams author Joshua Steckel discusses college access challenges for low-income students with Andrew DeBalco. Steckel is the college counselor at our Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies.
Joshua Steckel, college counselor at our Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show with former students to discuss his book Hold Fast to Dreams and the challenges low-income students face in getting to and through college.
WABC features the powerful peer mediation program at our Leaders School in its annual Protect Our Children special. This is the second year in a row that one of our schools has been featured in this Emmy award-winning program.
NYC Outward Bound Schools’ President and CEO Richard Stopol responds to the David Brooks column “It Takes a Village” by arguing for the value of character development in our schools. Stopol asserts that character development and intellectual development are inextricably linked, and should receive equal focus in our schools.
Is New York on track for implementing the Common Core? Our President Richard Stopol shares his thoughts in this opinion piece for the Education Funders Research Initiative blog, a project of Philanthropy New York.
UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds opinion piece in NY Teacher explores many of our Kurt Hahn School’s school structures, such as student-led conferences, and invites teachers to “consider how the Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in East Flatbush advances teaching and learning and shared voice.”
NY1 paid a visit to our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS), where seniors marched their college applications to a US post office drop for the 3rd year in a row.
Manhattan Times article explores the impact, history and scope of our College Application March, which originated at our school WHEELS in Washington Heights. The article also underscores the importance of our college march partnership with Capital One Bank.
Huffington Post blogger Tom Vander Ark interviews NYC Outward Bound Schools President & CEO Richard Stopol about Expeditionary Learning, school leadership, mastery-based learning and grading, and the future of our growing network.
