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Jan is the ReSolutions grant specialist and editor of the Charter School Monthly, Arizona’s only publication for the charter school community. She has worked for more than 25 years in communications and education as a writer, editor, and teacher.
Email: jkrygier@resolutions-esp.com
• Students and staff at Edu-Prize School started their school year with books, supplies, and…lots of brand new technology. All teachers at the school’s two campuses are now using an iPad within their classrooms. The entire Edu-Prize curriculum was also aligned with apps and technology over the summer to enhance enrichment and reteaching activities....
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Arizona’s charter schools have come a long way! The release of Arizona’s 2011-2012 A-F letter grades for all district and charter schools in the state on August 2nd reflects the impact the charter school movement is having on Arizona students. In addition to the letter-grade model for “traditional” schools, new this year are three...
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• Nina Rees is the new Chief Executive Officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Rees, who has served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Education – most notably as head of its Office for Innovation and Improvement, which oversees charter schools – replaces interim president and CEO Ursula Wright....
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Is this the year that your school appears in the “Charter School News Roundup”? Is this the year that your fascinating/interesting/unique/achieving students get the recognition they deserve? Is the year that everyone gets to see those smiling faces, those special events, those active classrooms? You don’t have to be teaching...
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This is the sixth “Editor’s Note” I have written marking the start of yet another school year. Like you, it might be a little tough coming up with a fresh take as you get ready to start the cycle again: enrollment, orientation, budget worries, state tests…graduation. So I decided to dig out that first...
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Congratulations to Rachel Bennett Yanof, school director of Phoenix Collegiate Academy, who was named as a “40 under 40” award winner by the Phoenix Business Journal. The award recognizes “40 of the Valley’s super professionals under the age of 40.” Other recipients include Arizona state representative Chad Campbell and the Phoenix Coyotes –...
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They’ve struggled. They’ve overcome. And now they’re graduating. As they transition from high school students to citizens, IntelliSchool Charter High School’s class of 2012 will get a glimpse of life inside the White House – and a final, motivating send-off – from former White House physician Dr. Connie Mariano. Mariano, the first female head...
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I love our feature “A Year in the Life of a Charter School Director…,” focusing on the joys and challenges of serving as a first-year charter school director. We have been very fortunate in that the past and current writers of this column have (1) taken on the one-year commitment to do it and...
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Congratulations to The STAR School in Flagstaff, one of just 8 charter schools and 78 schools nationwide to be named as 2012 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools. This first-ever award honors schools that “demonstrate compelling examples of the ways schools can help children build real-world skillsets, cut school costs, and provide healthy...
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