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Arizona Charter Schools Celebrate with an “A”
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• Students and staff at Edu-Prize School started their school year with books, supplies,...
Arizona’s charter schools have come a long way! The release of Arizona’s 2011-2012 A-F...
On August 2, the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) released Arizona’s A-F letter grades...
My fellow charter operators, lend me your ear!! It is astonishing to me that...
It’s an exciting time for proponents of enhanced and expanded technology in Arizona’s schools. As a result of a lot of hard work and a number of breakthroughs, Arizona has opened the door for significant educational advancement over the next several years. But sustained commitment is needed at both the state level and, most...
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Did you really make an impact this year? Teachers at IntelliSchool Charter High School’s Glendale campus definitely did, judging by the essay of graduating senior Michael Wissman. He shared his reflections with fellow students and staff. Here’s an excerpt: After a lot of lies, and extreme disappointments, I got my life straightened out, found...
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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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The group interview. The what-if scenarios. The psychological testing. The reference checks. The peer review. Any well-run charter school has no doubt employed at least some of these tools in its hiring process. But what about input from the school’s most important consumers? At IntelliSchool Charter High Schools, all potential job candidates must run...
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Editor’s note: This is part 2 of an article on the value of field trips for students. Part 1 ran in the April issue of the Charter School Monthly.] As a charter school director for many years I encouraged my staff to take field trips. In Montessori we refer to these excursions as “going...
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As the school year begins to wind down, it’s not too early for parents and summer school teachers to start thinking about how to engage students in reading activities throughout the summer. Research shows that the more a student reads, the more he or she becomes proficient at reading. A typical fifth-grade student who...
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In most classrooms a teacher will be confronted by a variety of students who, if allowed, will demand virtually all of his or her time and attention. There are the undisciplined rowdies who create problems in class. These range from students who are noisy and interfere with your instruction to the troublemaker who is...
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Because my stories and lectures tend to celebrate what is positive in life – and especially what is so wonder-filled about children, I tend to be thought of as somewhat “Pollyanna-ish” – not so! I am Polish, and I am an existentialist, but I don’t accept “Pollyanna-ish.” I have learned during all my years...
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