If we gave out a Parents’ Blogging Award, McCown parents would definitely win the prize! Check out their excited and constant postings on our crew orientation blog here:
See Student-Led Conferences in practice at our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, which is featured on the DOE’s Promising Practices website.
Wow. View these jaw-dropping murals at our new Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning campus:
We’re NOT waiting for Superman to give our teachers an accurate student attendance system. Using his computer science training, math teacher Jesse Olsen, from our Validus Preparatory Academy, has built an online system called Impact that tracks student attendance, grades and behavior class by class. It’s so successful it’s now in 21 NYC public schools and was recently adopted by Teach for America!
Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School teacher Dana Lawit, who also won our Gaynor McCown teaching award this year, blogs for GothamSchools.com – check out her latest writings here.
Congratulations to our Marsh Avenue Expeditionary Learning School, which is one of eight Staten Island schools to participate in the NYC Department of Education’s new, two-year special education initiative.
Great coverage of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s visit to our sister Expeditionary Learning School, King Middle School!
Watch Macaulay Honors Students perform their slam poems after a day of team building and leadership development with NYC Outward Bound’s Adventure & Team Building Program:
The Washington Post covers the alternative assessment system known as the the PBATs (Performance Based Assessments), which are used by the Performance Consortium — of which our James Baldwin School and Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies are members.
Our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School has been selected as the inaugural class of Blue Engine Fellows, an organization that provides intensive one-on-one academic coaching by select college graduates