Online powerhouse Mashable delves deep and wide into our College March, which has become a growing, nationwide ritual that celebrates the perseverance of seniors as they navigate their college readiness and application process.
NY1’s morning show host Roger Clark spent his day at our school Brooklyn Collaborative (BCS), where he hosted two live segments – one with students from BCS and Leaders, as well as our President Richard Stopol; and a second with students from BCS & MELS as well as BCS Principal Scill Chan. After filming the morning segments, he continued to follow the day’s events and compiled them into a full segment, which ran throughout the day.
Education Week’s Learning Deeply series devoted an entire week of blogs to the topic of college success, and to the College March. The blogs were penned by educators from across the EL Education networks. EL Education is our partner in teaching.
David Brooks of the New York Times devoted his latest column to the subject of community and character – and used one of our schools, Leaders, to show how schools can effectively develop both in their student bodies. An inspiring Thanksgiving read.
The Takeway interviews Principal David O’Hara and counselor Felicia Harper of our Leaders High School. They discuss the power of restorative justice in bringing down school suspensions and in raising levels of student engagement in all students and, in effect, breaking Leaders’ contribution to the school-to-prison-pipeline.
NPR stations across the country aired American Public Media’s radio documentary series, Beyond the Blackboard, which explores Outward Bound’s history and its influence in education today, particularly through Expeditionary Learning, our partner in teaching.
Principal Brady Smith of our James Baldwin School discusses the practices his staff use to insure all students are safe without resorting to the common NYC public school practice of scanning. These approaches include active peer mediation, regular community and trust-building activities, and suspension-diversion practices.