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50 Years since the Civil Rights Movement: What’s changed? What remains the same?
As we recognize Black History Month at Green Dot Public Schools, we can focus on how the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s transformed public school campuses throughout the South. Even as our nation has advanced toward better opportunities for all citizens, far too many inequities still remain.
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How #TFA25 Reconnected Me to the Classroom
Teachers and leaders from TFA, like Nate Geller, Assistant Principal at Ánimo Phillis Wheatley, believe in the transformational power of rigorous academics and supportive school culture.
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Small Schools, Huge Impact
For many families, the only option for a public education is an over-enrolled school within their designated district. This was true for the Solis family but they chose Green Dot. “My experience at APB was life-changing,” Solis recalls.
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The Fourth Annual Golden Dot Awards Nominees
The Golden Dot Awards celebrate educators and staff who are transforming the landscape of public education. We’re proud to announce the Fourth Annual “Dotties” Awards finalists!
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Does Teacher Culture Matter? A View Inside Green Dot’s Approach
Having the right teachers in our classrooms is among the most important challenges we face. It’s essential to students that we get it right – and we can’t do that without your help.
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Life After Teach for America: How Green Dot Public Schools Builds on the “Foundation for Impact”
We spotlight one Green Dot teacher’s journey from Teach for America to classroom excellence, in anticipation of the TFA 25th Anniversary Summit.
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Supporting Teachers with a Little Help From Our Friends
Our teachers’ work is very demanding day in and day out. Last month, a team of Green Dot volunteers supported teachers by refreshing work spaces and classrooms.
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Escaping Poverty through Better Education and Community Organizing
As we remember Martin Luther King this weekend and the legacy he left, we prepare more Green Dot parents to organize together to improve their lives and the conditions in their communities.
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Back to School: More Than Just a Job
Returning from the holiday break can be rough. School classified employees, like Charles Durham and Marlon Byrd (pictured), help keep our students safe every day. Mr. Daymond Johnson, President of Ánimo Classified Employees Association and School Safety Officer at Ánimo Pat Brown, explains why his responsibility to the students makes going back to school that much easier.
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#FutureUnwritten: This Season’s Match Up with Oscar De La Hoya
We are grateful to each of you for being our partners in making the Green Dot difference a reality. #FutureUnwritten
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Best Teacher Gifts – as Decided by Teachers
We asked our teachers: What is the most memorable or best teacher gift you’ve ever received? Here is a little of what they had to say.
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Finding Personal Success at Green Dot Public Schools
From his first days at Oscar de la Hoya Ánimo Charter High School, Ivan Gaeta noticed things were a bit different. Ivan found himself a student one day and a Green Dot employee the next.
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Green Dot’s AIR Program is Developing the Urban Public School Leaders of the Future
Green Dot’s Administrators-in-Residence (AIR) is a paid leadership training program that seeks to increase the number of highly effective school leaders successfully turning around the country’s most persistently low-performing schools through three research-based program components: relevant curriculum, supported immersion, and collaborative problem solving.
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The Science Behind a School Restart
Green Dot Public Schools is seeking to disrupt the cycle of poverty in under served neighborhoods with a goal of graduating students at a higher rate than their peers in more affluent areas. The idea is that the more normative post-secondary opportunities and readiness are, the more gateways out of poverty can grow. We already know that one’s chances of escaping poverty tumble without a quality post-secondary education.
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Green Dot Public Schools’ Approach to the Common Core
For too long, unaligned standards disguised educational inequity across schools, districts, and states. A common core of knowledge and skills ensures that all students are held to the same rigorous expectations; that all students are given the opportunity to achieve their true potential.
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Green Dot Ambassadors Define Hands-on-Philanthropy
The Green Dot Ambassador Program is a way to inform and develop the next generation of community and city leaders to take on the important task of being a steward for the well-being and education of our city’s youth.
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September is Voter Registration Month
Green Dot’s Community Engagement Team works with schools to raise awareness of the democratic process during voter registration month.
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Locke High: Empowering Positive Change in Watts
Dr. Peggy Gutierrez, Principal at Alain LeRoy Locke College Preparatory Academy since 2008, shares the history and importance of Locke’s transformation.
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Newsweek Publishes America’s Top High Schools 2015, Green Dot Beats the Odds
This week, Newsweek published its America’s Top High Schools 2015 list. Three Green Dot public schools were recognized for helping low-income students beat the odds.
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A School Cheer to Start the Year
For this year’s All Green Dot Day, we challenged our schools to create a school cheer to show their spirit, and to compete in a social media contest.
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