Outward Bound USA has awarded Paola Vita, Chief Advancement Officer of NYC Outward Bound Schools, its prestigious Joshua Miner Award. The award is the highest honor that Outward Bound USA can bestow upon a staff member from across its vast national network of Outward Bound centers. Vita shares the award with Peals Wrobel, a longtime instructor at Hurricane Island.
Our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School has partnered with Capital One Bank and the Heart of America Foundation to build a new College Access Room, which will house the school’s new College Counselor and Alumni Coordinator. The Room also houses a library of college readiness and financial literacy books, and students will use the space to research careers, study for entrance exams, and complete college and financial aid applications as they pursue higher education.
Our Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies’ class of 2012 has earned over $5.2 million dollars in college scholarships and grants, which includes 41 full-tuition scholarships. The 81 students who comprise the class also enjoyed a 100% college acceptance rate and will be attending colleges such as Cornell, Bard, Colby, DePauw, FIT, Colgate and Sarah Lawrence.
Manhattan Times covers our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School soon-to-open College Readiness Room, which was supported by the school’s partners Capital One and The Heart of America Foundation, The room will house its new college and alumni counselor and a library stocked with college readiness tools including books on financial literacy.
The NYC Department of Education’s Chief Academic Officer cites our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School in this SchoolBook article on college readiness. In particular, he applauds the school’s culture and assessment approaches, which include the use of mastery-based grades, student-led conferences and a structure known as HOWLS (Habits of Work and Learning), which assesses behaviors that lead to academic success.
Our climbing wall makes a guest appearance in the premiere season of the Travel Channel’s show Trip Flip. In this episode, two unsuspecting tourists are taken on an adrenaline-filled tour of New York City, including a climb up our 5-story climbing wall – the tallest in New York City!
The Epoch Times covers the opening of our new Launch Expeditionary Learning School in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the words of Launch’s Executive Director Geoffrey Roehm, “When you engage kids and you show them that learning is something useful and meaningful—and something that they can actually apply in the real world—that’s really when education sticks for kids.”
