Posts Tagged ‘Guest author’
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.
Read More >>Answers to Commonly Asked Questions About Washington Charter Schools
Q&A with Executive Director of Green Dot Washington, Bree Dusseault, about Washington Charter Schools.
Read More >>Embracing Accountability for Tennessee’s Public Charter Schools
Charter schools are part of the public school system and, as such, are held responsible for their students’ performance. Read how Green Dot Public Schools Tennessee is embracing accountability.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>Hall of Fame Homecoming
Forty-two years after graduation from Locke High School, baseball greats, Eddie Murray and Ozzie Smith, returned to their alma mater, where the baseball field was renamed in their honor.
Read More >>Locke High School Band Begins March Back To Glory
The Locke Academy Wind Ensemble performed at the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association in Irvine on March 20, their first concert band festival in years.
Read More >>Seeing Is Believing in Green Dot Schools
Touring a Green Dot school will change your perceptions about the richness and potential of Los Angeles, the work of charters, and the humanity of the people who are part of our schools.
Read More >>A Different Kind of Teachers Union
Salina Joiner, President of AMU, Green Dots teachers union, discusses her path to leadership and what makes AMU unique.
Read More >>Green Dot Teacher of the Year 2014 – William Heuisler
Green Dot’s Teacher of the Year 2014, William Heuisler, talks about his journey as an educator, and what it means to him to be a part of Animo South Los Angeles Charter High School and Green Dot Public Schools.
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