A Day in the Life of a Teacher and a Small Success Story
Hunter's Point is one of the most extreme poverty pockets in San Francisco. It's the site of one of the oldest housing projects in the city. For the kids living there, gang violence and shootings are a normal part of their lives.
Many never venture out of the neighborhood and know nothing of the city spread out below.
Here is how one dedicated teacher made a difference in the lives of her young students.
Malcolm X Academy has improved its test scores dramatically and is now off the state's endangered schools list.
How did it do it? Here's one innovative and cost effective way. I searched for the name and city of the Academy and came up with several other concrete examples of a school district, teachers, and parents working together to make a difference.
If it works in Hunter's Point, it should work anywhere.
It's called making our kids a priority.
Many never venture out of the neighborhood and know nothing of the city spread out below.
Here is how one dedicated teacher made a difference in the lives of her young students.
Malcolm X Academy has improved its test scores dramatically and is now off the state's endangered schools list.
How did it do it? Here's one innovative and cost effective way. I searched for the name and city of the Academy and came up with several other concrete examples of a school district, teachers, and parents working together to make a difference.
If it works in Hunter's Point, it should work anywhere.
It's called making our kids a priority.
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posted by Granny @ 6/14/2006 04:11:00 AM
2 Comments:
At Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:28:00 AM ,
Unknown said...
GREAT POST!! Granny, copies need to be emailed to every disadvantaged school in the country.
I emailed them to my friend, "Professor Bob", and he said he'd forward them to his contacts in HISD, which has many disadvantaged schools and neighborhoods.
At Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:58:00 AM ,
Endorendil said...
Excellent. I might add that it is much better to learn about computers on those old crotchety things. Currently, the system is burried behind all the graphical gizmo's, and the temptation is to fiddle with the looks, in stead of the guts of everything. Programming is straight-jacketed by expansive, expensive and very limiting applications such as Visual Studio.
The kids at Malcolm X Academy are more likely to understand about computers than those that are offered the newest, fanciest PCs to work with. The latter might learn about the newest software, might develop cool apps, with dazzling little gizmo's. But they may not come to understand the underlying working of the computer, or not very thoroughly. Apps come and go, but the underlying guts of the PC are changing much slower. In addition, the kids are likely to face a heterogenous network. Different OS's, different hardware. They'll get a broader technical education.
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