ABC-7’s Protect Our Children series explores “crew,” a student advisory and community-building structure that we use in all of our schools, through the lens of students’ affected by Hurricane Sandy. The series features students and principals from two of our schools most affected by the storm: Channel View School for Research and Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders. The Protect Our Children series has aired annually for sixteen years and has garnered 4 Emmy’s.
Across our network of Expeditionary Learning schools, our 2011-2012 academic results show that we have made gains on all tracked measures including graduation rates and college acceptance rates. Learn more by visiting Our Results on our website at www.nycoutwardbound.org/our-schools/our-results.html.
NYC Outward Bound Schools has again been award Charity Navigator’s highest rating of 4 stars for our financial stability and high levels of accountability and transparency.
Nine of our public schools hold graduation and moving-up ceremonies this week for graduating seniors at our high schools and advancing 8th-graders at our middle schools. Congratulations to all, and special recognition to WHEELS for graduating its first senior class and for securing keynote speaker Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Broadway hit In the Heights, and a native and resident of the school’s neighborhood.
Our Channel View School for Research has been selected as one of 40 NYC public schools to receive a $250,000 “Expanded Success Initiative” grant, which will assist in preparing young men for college. The grant is connected to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative.
Josh Heisler of our James Baldwin School co-presents on “Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Bringing Restorative Justice to our Schools” at a three-day Teachers Unite Leadership Institute.
NYC Outward Bound Schools reached its $1.2 million dollar fundraising goal for its annual gala on June 12. The gala honored the organization’s board chairs, past and present, and Soledad O’Brien of CNN served as Master of Ceremonies at the Plaza Hotel.
NYC Outward Bound Schools has awarded our 2012 Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award to 8th-grade social studies teacher Tina Marra of our Marsh Avenue Expeditionary Learning School. The award will be presented at our 25th Anniversary Gala on June 12 at the Plaza Hotel.
NYC Outward Bound Schools’ 25th Anniversary Gala happens on June 12 at the Plaza Hotel, where board chairs from the organization’s 25 year history will be honored. Soledad O’Brien of CNN serves as Master of Ceremonies.
Teacher Jes Kruse from our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning Schools blogs in GothamSchools about a memoir-writing project that her ESL class engaged in, which leveraged the power of personal storytelling – both written and verbal – to increase English fluency.
