Posts Tagged ‘Beyond the Classroom’
Green Dot Student Writing and Art Competition Awards Scholarship to Winners!
Our first Ánimo Voices Writing and Art Competition invited students to write about innovators, upstanders, visionaries, or rebels that have made a difference in their local or broader communities. Check out this year’s winners!
Read More >>Excel Students Flex Computational Thinking Skills at Their Annual CT Day
Each year, students and teachers at Excel Public Charter School celebrate and demonstrate mastery in their computational thinking (CT) skills at CT Day—a full day devoted to concepts such as algorithmic thinking, pattern recognition and experimentation. At this year’s CT Day, students rotated around to various stations that challenge and hone their CT skills.
Read More >>Why This Artist Knew She Belonged in the Classroom
During her time at Green Dot, Stephanie Lowe, Ánimo College Preparatory Academy art teacher, has helped establish two Advanced Placement (AP) art programs and exposed students to museums and landmarks across California, and even across the world in a trip to Europe!
Read More >>Green Dot Teachers Union and Staff Host Second Scholarship Fundraiser
On a rainy Saturday morning, over 200 educators, administrators, union leaders, and community leaders laced up their running shoes to participate in the annual Race to College 5K Fun(d) Run.
Read More >>College is a Matter of ‘When,’ Not ‘If’ at Green Dot
Though more students in the United States are attending college after high school than ever before, as many as one in three first-year students don’t return after their freshman year. At Green Dot, we’re helping students build a vision for their life that includes completing college before they even step foot on campus their freshman year.
Read More >>How Destiny Middle School is Supporting Students Beyond Its Own Doors
At Destiny Middle School, we’re excited that over 20 students from the current eighth grade class have been accepted to local magnet programs.
Read More >>Follow Excel’s Computational Thinking Balloon Into Space
Last spring, Excel Public Charter School launched a weather balloon to an altitude of 112,000 feet to cap off the first-ever Computational Thinking Day.
Read More >>Ánimo Westside Students Win Funding for Wellness Program
Young women at Ánimo Westside Charter Middle School received seed funding to create social change at their school and within their community by launching Regular Girl Fitness.
Read More >>How Two Green Dot Students Wound Up on the Hamilton Stage
Last fall, over 50 students and a dozen chaperones from Oscar De La Hoya Ánimo Charter High School, Ánimo Venice Charter High School, and Ánimo Jackie Robinson Charter High School, traveled to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood to attend a special performance of the smash-hit musical Hamilton.
Read More >>Signing Day at Hillcrest High School Celebrates Five Students
Hillcrest High School had the honor of hosting a National Signing Day event for five senior football players, who signed letters of intent to attend universities across the country– making them the second largest signing class in Memphis.
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