Our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School is in the New York Times for their students’ involvement in the City Council’s participatory budgeting process, which garnered the school and its 45th district $450,000 to dramatically increase safety by placing lights in the district’s parks and in the field behind the school’s Tilden Educational Campus in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Mark Morales of the NY Daily News covers Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School senior exit projects at their public Senior Expo. Students presented their findings and educated their peers on a diverse array of real-world problems endemic to the high school’s East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn such as gang violence, teen pregnancy and immigration issues.
Univision’s sister television network Telefutura has produced an in-depth, Spanish-language segment on our network of public Expeditionary Learning schools, our mission, and our unique approach to education. “En Tu Comunidad” features NYC Outward Bound’s Strategic Sponsorship Officer Deborah Castillero, our Validus Preparatory Academy’s Principal Javier Ocampo, and our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School’s Assistant Principal Jenny Rodriguez.
New York 1 features our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School’s first graduating class of seniors, who marched with NYC Schools Chancellor Walcott through crowds of community supporters to the post office, where they mailed in their college applications. 100% of WHEELS students are on track to graduate and 100% have submitted their college applications. Watch the video here.
We’re on Nickelodeon News – at least, our Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies’ 6th grade English Language Arts and Environmental Science class is. Their learning expedition “Why Gas the Geese?” is featured seven minutes into the film. Guiding questions for this expedition included “What problems does overpopulation of geese cause?” and “Do humans have to become predators?”
Dana Lawit, our 2010 Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award Winner and a special education teacher at our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School, returns toWNYC with her latest article, this time on topic of classroom rules.
The BBC calls our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School an “IZone pioneer school” in their article on New York’s iZone Project – or Innovation Zone – which is challenging state schools in New York City to rip up the rule book.
The LaGuardia Community College’s sustainability blog has covered our Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School’s learning expedition on the Greenpoint Oil Spill. The article provides a comprehensive and accessible explanation of our curricular approach to learning – a good read and testament to the work happening at our newest school.
Our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School is the lead education story today on MSNBC’s TheGrio.com. The article juxtaposes the neighborhood’s economic struggles and violent past with the school’s positive culture- and community-building initiatives that lead to academic success.
NYC Outward Bound has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of non-profit organizations. Charity Navigator’s mission is to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health, accountability and transparency of America’s largest charities.
