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IB Board School in Gurgaon (IB) | Play schools in Gurgaon
OMPEE Global School is one of the best IB Board Schools in Gurgaon. Our reason for being one of the best IB Board Schools is to make every effort for the development of every student with a strong state-of-the-art infrastructure to guide his/her future in the right direction. We offer all curricular courses, co-curricular activities, and other academic and non-academic courses. Our teaching methodologies play a vital role in the future development of the students. By which our learners can participate in any competition with great confidence and can easily accomplish the objective of achievement. Here our Learners learn by doing the works independently without being taught. OMPEE Global School offers a wide students wide range of courses one roof.
There is a list of Academic programs:
1. IB EYP (EARLY YEARS PROGRAM): Prenursery to Kindergarten
2.IB Primary Year Program (PYP-Pre-Nursery to Class V)
3.ICSE CURRICULUM (Grade 6 onwards)
OMPEE Global School (Gurgaon) has been conferred with many awards
The ISA Award is one of the many awards. Which was awarded based on the curriculum by the British Council in 2016-2017
In a very shorperiodme, Ompee Global School secured more than 45000 ranks 18th in SOF NCOs in Haryana Region in the academic year of 2017-18.
This display authentically represents the work of OMPEE Global School towards education and These award wing performances make OMPEE Global School one of the top IB Schools in Gurgaon.
The OMPEE GLOBAL school is going decisively with extra-curricular activities programs are woven seamlessly with its curricula. All sports activities which make healthy body and mind healthy which are a most important part to make a successful and better life.
The Ompee School is among the top cbse schools in Gurgaon. It believes that education is an important mean sby which students can explore and stay connected to the world at different levels. It is considered one of the highly rated and the best pre schools in Gurgaon because of its focus on building a strong foundation for a bright career. It is counted as one of best icse schools in Gurgaon that believes that education is not just a way to provide knowledge of various subjects, but it is also a way of developing them into good citizens. It is the reason, nursery and playschools take a critical role in the building of the nation.
The Ompee School is considered one of the important nursery schools in Gurgaon, where students get a chance to explore and discover hidden talent and specialskiil among them. Not just that, they get an environment that motivates and supports the students to perform their best. The foundation gets built in good-quality play schools in Gurgaon that helps the higher classes.
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MUNDANE / ELEMENTARY TEACHER.
verse tag: → clary fairchild // to awaken joy (v.) location: manhattan & brooklyn, NY. age: varies; 26-29, thread dependent.
verse summary.
Art has always been Clary's passion, threading itself through her entire life. at first, it even took her to college until a pivotal class prompted her to declare a dual major, & she started on the path of Elementary Education & Art. graduating with honors & earning both her B.A. & M.A., she took a risk & did a nine month artist in residency program with The Whitney Museum.
After the conclusion of the program, she would go on to accept a job teaching kindergarten at one of the prestigious private schools in New York City. Her curriculum centers largely around art, & language development following the expectations established by the school.
During the school year, she works with other volunteers for a nonprofit specializing in guided art therapy for both men & women - youth & adults - looking for support after trauma associated with assault, as well as military veteran groups confronting issues surrounding re-entry to civilian life, post-traumatic stress, & other related things. Typically she oversees one session a week after the conclusion of her school day for each group, with her youth group being on Saturdays, & her adult group on Wednesday nights.
During the summer, she's often called to act as an artist in residence for various programs through New York Foundation for the Arts. Through these residencies, she's traveled to places such as Cape Town, South Africa, Skowhegan, Maine, & Itaparica, Brazil - the latter of which was funded by grant through her employer in the hopes to bring back ideas for further diversifying their curriculum.
basics.
Clary's canon backstory in this verse is largely similar to her seemingly mundane life prior to her sixteenth birthday. She was born the younger child of Jocelyn Fairchild & Valentine Morgenstern, but raised solely by Jocelyn in Park Slope, Brooklyn. They had separated following steep personal tragedy that had claimed the life of Jocelyn’s parents when their home burned under mysterious circumstances, & Valentine had bolted with their son.
She attended St. Francis Xavier School, a private school near her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which is where she met Simon Lewis when she was six years old. Additionally, prior to her high school graduation, she was taking classes at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
When she was 16 ( circa 2007 ), she received a letter from her father’s estate revealing he had passed away far more recently than she & her mother had been lead to believe - Jocelyn had been under the impression her husband had died in that tragic fire that had claimed the life of her parents & young son before the birth of their daughter. Several weeks later, Jonathan turned up on Jocelyn’s doorstep with the revelation that not only had Valentine lied about his own death, but also that of his son.
Jonathan has been living & working in Manhattan since, compliant with @idumean​‘s professional chef verse unless plotted otherwise. Jocelyn & Luke are now married & living at Luke’s.
Clary teaches kindergarten at a private school in Manhattan’s Upper East. Her class size ranges from 8-10 small children, & follows a Scandinavian elementary model that emphasizes playtime & education through discovery. Her school year runs from roughly the second week of September through the first week of June, with her artist in residence programs typically picking up the third week of June through the second week of August. ( yearly salary: 76,000, pretax ( link ), $60,291 after taxes. works out to roughly $5,024/mo. )
Clary does not drive. She does however frequently use the metro, as well as very, very rarely takes cabs to get between home & work as well as the various places she goes during the week for her volunteer work or art ramblings. She runs an instagram account based on the rambling sketcher ( link ), & sells prints for additional income. she carries an etchr field case with her for those excursions. you can find the rest of the details of her kit here ( link ).
Clary lives in East Harlem ( link ). She has a small studio apartment that’s perpetually covered in plants & paintings. It’s very small, but it’s one of the most walkable areas & close to public transportation - & it’s home. Her rent takes up a disproportionate amount of her income, but she supplements her teacher’s salary with her art work, & various grants cover the cost of her artist in residence excursions that aren’t covered by the programs themselves. She doesn’t have any pets.
simplified timeline of events.
prior to 2007, lived in Park Slope & attended St. Xavier’s.
after August 2007, lived with Luke & Jocelyn but continued attending St. Xavier’s. Additionally started taking classes at Tisch.
Graduated St. Xavier’s in 2009, age 17, & starts college the following fall.
Graduates college in 2014, age 22, with both a B.A. & M.A. in elementary education & art. Starts a nine month artist in residency program with The Whitney Museum immediately after graduation.
Summer 2015, Artist in Residence in Cape Town, South Africa
Starts as a kindergarten teacher in the Fall of 2015.
Summer 2016, Artist in Residence in Skowhegan, Maine through the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Summer 2017, Artist in Residence in Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil through The Sacatar Foundation’s Instituto Sacatar.
options & ideas for interaction
option i. meeting in a public space. Clary frequently wanders the city doing sketches, so it’s very possible to run into her at various museums, coffee shops, or while she’s navigating the sidewalks after work. places of high interest for her at the New York Botanical Gardens, the High Line, The New York Public Library, or her canon haunt, Java Jones in Brooklyn. Additionally, she can also be found at various gallery openings, or at her brother’s restaurant, Per Se.
option ii. meeting through work. Clary works in Manhattan’s Upper East at a private school modeled after The Brearley School, as well as with various artist in residence programs listed but not limited to above. Her artist in residence programs are relatively short, & only occur during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer months ( late June - early August ), but offer flexibility in that they aren’t restricted to Manhattan as the rest of the school year would be.
option iii. meeting through volunteer work. Clary additional volunteers with a nonprofit organization working with youth & veterans. These programs emphasize art therapy, with youth activities on Saturdays, & the veteran meetings on Wednesday nights.
verse specific ooc notes
Disaster related plots ( bird box, apocalypse, etc. ) will default to this verse unless otherwise plotted.
Additionally, if using other canon TSC muses as NPCs, I will default to my own portrayals if possible unless plotted otherwise for simplicity’s sake.
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Schools in Cranston Calgary – A Great Place to Live
Ever wanted to live in Cranston but needed more information on the schools, where they are and just general details?  Well look no farther.  There are some great schools in Cranston and the Elite Group can help you find the perfect home near them
Just interested in Cranston Homes for Sale?  Click here to get full listings
Southeast Calgary Schools: Cranston
  Cranston has two public schools, one elementary and one serving grades four through nine with a second elementary school opening in September 2020. The community also has two Catholic schools, one serving Cranston student from Kindergarten to grade six and the other Kindergarten to grade nine.
Calgary Public Schools in Cranston
Cranston School
Cranston School is a Calgary Board of Education Public School (CBE) that is located in the heart of Cranston. School hours are from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm, and students only receive a maximum of 20 minutes of homework each day, which mainly consists of the school’s home reading program. Cranston School first opened in September of 2010 and has grown to be home to over 500 students in Kindergarten to grade three. The school operates on a single grade class configuration with learning personalized to meet the needs of each learner regardless of their grade. Cranston School’s mission is to foster growth, resiliency and empathy in their students through personalized learning and inclusion.
 Along with the regular curriculum, Cranston School provides opportunities for students to participate in programs in environmental education, fine arts, technology, leadership and clubs throughout the school year, as well as several performance opportunities.
Cranston School also offers a Swimming Program based at a City of Calgary-operated pool for all children, Kindergarten to grade three and students in grades one to three participate in daily physical education.
Cranston School likes to foster school spirit throughout the year in many ways. In the Fall, students and staff unite for Orange Shirt Day and Pajama Day. During the winter, the school comes together for Christmas concerts, Pink shirt anti-bullying day, and Winter Sports Day. The last several months of the school include Hats On for Mental Health, Music Monday, and Summer Sports Day.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.
Dr. George Stanley School
Dr. George Stanley School opened in Cranston in 2017 and has over 80 students from grades four to nine currently enrolled. The school promotes an inclusive learning environment and a class structure that allows students to have a homeroom teacher that delivers much of the curricular content. Dr. George Stanley School strives for innovation, cooperation, authentic connections between all disciplines, exposure to career skills and the arts with their core classes. The staff at Dr. George Stanley School believe the education offered to students between the ages of 10-15 are critical in keeping our students on the path to high school completion and their career futures.
Along with the Alberta Education’s mandated curriculum, Dr. George Stanley School offers a wide range of programs, extra-curricular activities and sports. The extra-curricular activities allow students to pursue passions and interests that fall outside the regular curriculum. These activities include special interest clubs, arts, music and athletics.
Fine arts is open to students from grades four to nine, and students in grade five have the choice to join a general music option. From grades six to nine, students have the opportunity to be in the band and learn how to play an instrument of their choosing. For the different athletics options, any student in grades six to nine can participate. All sports have tryouts except for cross-country and wrestling, which require a consistent commitment to practices and meets. The sports teams available to students at Dr. George Stanley School include soccer, cross-country, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, badminton and track and field.
Students of Dr. George Stanley School also have access to a wide range of clubs, including Leadership Club, Yearbook Club, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Jazz Band, Challenge Club, Eco Club, Book Club, Musical Theatre Appreciation Club and Movie Making Club.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.
Sibylla Kiddle School
Sibylla Kiddle School will be the third public school in Cranston and will serve students from Kindergarten to grade four when it opens in September 2020 and Kindergarten to grade five by September 2021. Sibylla Kiddle Elementary School attendance area will cover the south half of Cranston. It will aim to keep students attending school as close to home as possible while balancing enrolment between the three schools.
 Sibylla Kiddle School is named after a former teacher who went on to teach in a one-room school, south of Calgary, where she taught three daughters of a Cranston family. Later, Kiddle married Lloyd Cranston and gave birth to two children, before returning as a kindergarten teacher for the Calgary Board of Education.
  Calgary Catholic Schools in Cranston
Christ The King Catholic School
Christ The King Catholic School is a kindergarten to grade nine school that opened its doors to the Cranston community on November 25, 2010, and is part of the Calgary Catholic School District. The school serves over 600 students within Cranston with limited enrollment. Students from Kindergarten to grade six residing in the north half of Cranston are within the attendance area for Christ the King School. Students in the south half of Cranston are in the attendance area of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School. Enrollment for grades seven to nine is open to all students within Cranston. School hours are from 8:55 am to 3:20 pm.
Christ the King Catholic School strives to promote, model, and teach six fundamental values. These values are Faith, Family, Caring, Trust, Respect, and Responsibility. All activities, interactions, and planning begin with these values at the core. These six core values are incorporated into classroom learning, extra-curricular activities, school awards, playground activities, and Catholic celebrations.
In addition to core curriculum programming Christ the King Catholic School offers students a variety of supplementary courses and extra-curricular activities which include career and technology foundations, diverse learning, drama and music and band. School athletic teams and programs include cross-country running, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, dance, badminton, flag football and track and field.  Want to see some Cranston Homes for Sale?
Our Lady of the Rosary School
Our Lady of the Rosary School is a kindergarten to grade six school located in the community of South Cranston that opened in 2017. The school offers a well-rounded, faith-based education in a caring, inclusive and nurturing community to meet each student’s unique needs. In addition to core curriculum programming mandated by Alberta Education, Our Lady of the Rosary School also offer their students a variety of supplementary courses, options and services, including diverse learning support, which assists students with their individual learning needs. Kindergarten students receive a minimum of 475 instructional hours each school year, and the program follows ten guiding principles to provide a framework. The values of the Catholic faith permeate all programming options within Calgary Catholic schools.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.
  Each of Cranston’s school offers a unique and rewarding learning experience, providing them with strong foundations for the future. We know that choosing the right school for your family is an integral part of the home buying decision if you are looking for a home somewhere near one of these great schools contact us today to see how we can help you find your next dream home
Want more information on Cranston?  Check out all listings at:
Cranston Homes for Sale
Cranston Condos for Sale
Cranston Townhouses for Sale
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Schools in Cranston Calgary - A Great Place to Live
Ever wanted to live in Cranston but needed more information on the schools, where they are and just general details?  Well look no farther.  There are some great schools in Cranston and the Elite Group can help you find the perfect home near them Just interested in Cranston Homes for Sale?  Click here to get full listings Southeast Calgary Schools: Cranston   Cranston has two public schools, one elementary and one serving grades four through nine with a second elementary school opening in September 2020. The community also has two Catholic schools, one serving Cranston student from Kindergarten to grade six and the other Kindergarten to grade nine. Calgary Public Schools in Cranston Cranston School Cranston School is a Calgary Board of Education Public School (CBE) that is located in the heart of Cranston. School hours are from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm, and students only receive a maximum of 20 minutes of homework each day, which mainly consists of the school’s home reading program. Cranston School first opened in September of 2010 and has grown to be home to over 500 students in Kindergarten to grade three. The school operates on a single grade class configuration with learning personalized to meet the needs of each learner regardless of their grade. Cranston School’s mission is to foster growth, resiliency and empathy in their students through personalized learning and inclusion.  Along with the regular curriculum, Cranston School provides opportunities for students to participate in programs in environmental education, fine arts, technology, leadership and clubs throughout the school year, as well as several performance opportunities. Cranston School also offers a Swimming Program based at a City of Calgary-operated pool for all children, Kindergarten to grade three and students in grades one to three participate in daily physical education. Cranston School likes to foster school spirit throughout the year in many ways. In the Fall, students and staff unite for Orange Shirt Day and Pajama Day. During the winter, the school comes together for Christmas concerts, Pink shirt anti-bullying day, and Winter Sports Day. The last several months of the school include Hats On for Mental Health, Music Monday, and Summer Sports Day.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Dr. George Stanley School Dr. George Stanley School opened in Cranston in 2017 and has over 80 students from grades four to nine currently enrolled. The school promotes an inclusive learning environment and a class structure that allows students to have a homeroom teacher that delivers much of the curricular content. Dr. George Stanley School strives for innovation, cooperation, authentic connections between all disciplines, exposure to career skills and the arts with their core classes. The staff at Dr. George Stanley School believe the education offered to students between the ages of 10-15 are critical in keeping our students on the path to high school completion and their career futures. Along with the Alberta Education’s mandated curriculum, Dr. George Stanley School offers a wide range of programs, extra-curricular activities and sports. The extra-curricular activities allow students to pursue passions and interests that fall outside the regular curriculum. These activities include special interest clubs, arts, music and athletics. Fine arts is open to students from grades four to nine, and students in grade five have the choice to join a general music option. From grades six to nine, students have the opportunity to be in the band and learn how to play an instrument of their choosing. For the different athletics options, any student in grades six to nine can participate. All sports have tryouts except for cross-country and wrestling, which require a consistent commitment to practices and meets. The sports teams available to students at Dr. George Stanley School include soccer, cross-country, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, badminton and track and field. Students of Dr. George Stanley School also have access to a wide range of clubs, including Leadership Club, Yearbook Club, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Jazz Band, Challenge Club, Eco Club, Book Club, Musical Theatre Appreciation Club and Movie Making Club.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Sibylla Kiddle School Sibylla Kiddle School will be the third public school in Cranston and will serve students from Kindergarten to grade four when it opens in September 2020 and Kindergarten to grade five by September 2021. Sibylla Kiddle Elementary School attendance area will cover the south half of Cranston. It will aim to keep students attending school as close to home as possible while balancing enrolment between the three schools.  Sibylla Kiddle School is named after a former teacher who went on to teach in a one-room school, south of Calgary, where she taught three daughters of a Cranston family. Later, Kiddle married Lloyd Cranston and gave birth to two children, before returning as a kindergarten teacher for the Calgary Board of Education.   Calgary Catholic Schools in Cranston Christ The King Catholic School Christ The King Catholic School is a kindergarten to grade nine school that opened its doors to the Cranston community on November 25, 2010, and is part of the Calgary Catholic School District. The school serves over 600 students within Cranston with limited enrollment. Students from Kindergarten to grade six residing in the north half of Cranston are within the attendance area for Christ the King School. Students in the south half of Cranston are in the attendance area of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School. Enrollment for grades seven to nine is open to all students within Cranston. School hours are from 8:55 am to 3:20 pm. Christ the King Catholic School strives to promote, model, and teach six fundamental values. These values are Faith, Family, Caring, Trust, Respect, and Responsibility. All activities, interactions, and planning begin with these values at the core. These six core values are incorporated into classroom learning, extra-curricular activities, school awards, playground activities, and Catholic celebrations. In addition to core curriculum programming Christ the King Catholic School offers students a variety of supplementary courses and extra-curricular activities which include career and technology foundations, diverse learning, drama and music and band. School athletic teams and programs include cross-country running, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, dance, badminton, flag football and track and field.  Want to see some Cranston Homes for Sale? Our Lady of the Rosary School Our Lady of the Rosary School is a kindergarten to grade six school located in the community of South Cranston that opened in 2017. The school offers a well-rounded, faith-based education in a caring, inclusive and nurturing community to meet each student’s unique needs. In addition to core curriculum programming mandated by Alberta Education, Our Lady of the Rosary School also offer their students a variety of supplementary courses, options and services, including diverse learning support, which assists students with their individual learning needs. Kindergarten students receive a minimum of 475 instructional hours each school year, and the program follows ten guiding principles to provide a framework. The values of the Catholic faith permeate all programming options within Calgary Catholic schools.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.   Each of Cranston’s school offers a unique and rewarding learning experience, providing them with strong foundations for the future. We know that choosing the right school for your family is an integral part of the home buying decision if you are looking for a home somewhere near one of these great schools contact us today to see how we can help you find your next dream home Want more information on Cranston?  Check out all listings at: Cranston Homes for Sale Cranston Condos for Sale Cranston Townhouses for Sale source https://www.elitehomerealestate.com/blog/schools-in-cranston-calgary-a-great-place-to-live.html
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Schools in Cranston Calgary - A Great Place to Live
Ever wanted to live in Cranston but needed more information on the schools, where they are and just general details?  Well look no farther.  There are some great schools in Cranston and the Elite Group can help you find the perfect home near them Just interested in Cranston Homes for Sale?  Click here to get full listings Southeast Calgary Schools: Cranston   Cranston has two public schools, one elementary and one serving grades four through nine with a second elementary school opening in September 2020. The community also has two Catholic schools, one serving Cranston student from Kindergarten to grade six and the other Kindergarten to grade nine. Calgary Public Schools in Cranston Cranston School Cranston School is a Calgary Board of Education Public School (CBE) that is located in the heart of Cranston. School hours are from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm, and students only receive a maximum of 20 minutes of homework each day, which mainly consists of the school’s home reading program. Cranston School first opened in September of 2010 and has grown to be home to over 500 students in Kindergarten to grade three. The school operates on a single grade class configuration with learning personalized to meet the needs of each learner regardless of their grade. Cranston School’s mission is to foster growth, resiliency and empathy in their students through personalized learning and inclusion.  Along with the regular curriculum, Cranston School provides opportunities for students to participate in programs in environmental education, fine arts, technology, leadership and clubs throughout the school year, as well as several performance opportunities. Cranston School also offers a Swimming Program based at a City of Calgary-operated pool for all children, Kindergarten to grade three and students in grades one to three participate in daily physical education. Cranston School likes to foster school spirit throughout the year in many ways. In the Fall, students and staff unite for Orange Shirt Day and Pajama Day. During the winter, the school comes together for Christmas concerts, Pink shirt anti-bullying day, and Winter Sports Day. The last several months of the school include Hats On for Mental Health, Music Monday, and Summer Sports Day.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Dr. George Stanley School Dr. George Stanley School opened in Cranston in 2017 and has over 80 students from grades four to nine currently enrolled. The school promotes an inclusive learning environment and a class structure that allows students to have a homeroom teacher that delivers much of the curricular content. Dr. George Stanley School strives for innovation, cooperation, authentic connections between all disciplines, exposure to career skills and the arts with their core classes. The staff at Dr. George Stanley School believe the education offered to students between the ages of 10-15 are critical in keeping our students on the path to high school completion and their career futures. Along with the Alberta Education’s mandated curriculum, Dr. George Stanley School offers a wide range of programs, extra-curricular activities and sports. The extra-curricular activities allow students to pursue passions and interests that fall outside the regular curriculum. These activities include special interest clubs, arts, music and athletics. Fine arts is open to students from grades four to nine, and students in grade five have the choice to join a general music option. From grades six to nine, students have the opportunity to be in the band and learn how to play an instrument of their choosing. For the different athletics options, any student in grades six to nine can participate. All sports have tryouts except for cross-country and wrestling, which require a consistent commitment to practices and meets. The sports teams available to students at Dr. George Stanley School include soccer, cross-country, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, badminton and track and field. Students of Dr. George Stanley School also have access to a wide range of clubs, including Leadership Club, Yearbook Club, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Jazz Band, Challenge Club, Eco Club, Book Club, Musical Theatre Appreciation Club and Movie Making Club.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Sibylla Kiddle School Sibylla Kiddle School will be the third public school in Cranston and will serve students from Kindergarten to grade four when it opens in September 2020 and Kindergarten to grade five by September 2021. Sibylla Kiddle Elementary School attendance area will cover the south half of Cranston. It will aim to keep students attending school as close to home as possible while balancing enrolment between the three schools.  Sibylla Kiddle School is named after a former teacher who went on to teach in a one-room school, south of Calgary, where she taught three daughters of a Cranston family. Later, Kiddle married Lloyd Cranston and gave birth to two children, before returning as a kindergarten teacher for the Calgary Board of Education.   Calgary Catholic Schools in Cranston Christ The King Catholic School Christ The King Catholic School is a kindergarten to grade nine school that opened its doors to the Cranston community on November 25, 2010, and is part of the Calgary Catholic School District. The school serves over 600 students within Cranston with limited enrollment. Students from Kindergarten to grade six residing in the north half of Cranston are within the attendance area for Christ the King School. Students in the south half of Cranston are in the attendance area of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School. Enrollment for grades seven to nine is open to all students within Cranston. School hours are from 8:55 am to 3:20 pm. Christ the King Catholic School strives to promote, model, and teach six fundamental values. These values are Faith, Family, Caring, Trust, Respect, and Responsibility. All activities, interactions, and planning begin with these values at the core. These six core values are incorporated into classroom learning, extra-curricular activities, school awards, playground activities, and Catholic celebrations. In addition to core curriculum programming Christ the King Catholic School offers students a variety of supplementary courses and extra-curricular activities which include career and technology foundations, diverse learning, drama and music and band. School athletic teams and programs include cross-country running, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, dance, badminton, flag football and track and field.  Want to see some Cranston Homes for Sale? Our Lady of the Rosary School Our Lady of the Rosary School is a kindergarten to grade six school located in the community of South Cranston that opened in 2017. The school offers a well-rounded, faith-based education in a caring, inclusive and nurturing community to meet each student’s unique needs. In addition to core curriculum programming mandated by Alberta Education, Our Lady of the Rosary School also offer their students a variety of supplementary courses, options and services, including diverse learning support, which assists students with their individual learning needs. Kindergarten students receive a minimum of 475 instructional hours each school year, and the program follows ten guiding principles to provide a framework. The values of the Catholic faith permeate all programming options within Calgary Catholic schools.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.   Each of Cranston’s school offers a unique and rewarding learning experience, providing them with strong foundations for the future. We know that choosing the right school for your family is an integral part of the home buying decision if you are looking for a home somewhere near one of these great schools contact us today to see how we can help you find your next dream home Want more information on Cranston?  Check out all listings at: Cranston Homes for Sale Cranston Condos for Sale Cranston Townhouses for Sale Via https://www.elitehomerealestate.com/blog/schools-in-cranston-calgary-a-great-place-to-live.html
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Schools in Cranston Calgary - A Great Place to Live
Ever wanted to live in Cranston but needed more information on the schools, where they are and just general details?  Well look no farther.  There are some great schools in Cranston and the Elite Group can help you find the perfect home near them Just interested in Cranston Homes for Sale?  Click here to get full listings Southeast Calgary Schools: Cranston   Cranston has two public schools, one elementary and one serving grades four through nine with a second elementary school opening in September 2020. The community also has two Catholic schools, one serving Cranston student from Kindergarten to grade six and the other Kindergarten to grade nine. Calgary Public Schools in Cranston Cranston School Cranston School is a Calgary Board of Education Public School (CBE) that is located in the heart of Cranston. School hours are from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm, and students only receive a maximum of 20 minutes of homework each day, which mainly consists of the school’s home reading program. Cranston School first opened in September of 2010 and has grown to be home to over 500 students in Kindergarten to grade three. The school operates on a single grade class configuration with learning personalized to meet the needs of each learner regardless of their grade. Cranston School’s mission is to foster growth, resiliency and empathy in their students through personalized learning and inclusion.  Along with the regular curriculum, Cranston School provides opportunities for students to participate in programs in environmental education, fine arts, technology, leadership and clubs throughout the school year, as well as several performance opportunities. Cranston School also offers a Swimming Program based at a City of Calgary-operated pool for all children, Kindergarten to grade three and students in grades one to three participate in daily physical education. Cranston School likes to foster school spirit throughout the year in many ways. In the Fall, students and staff unite for Orange Shirt Day and Pajama Day. During the winter, the school comes together for Christmas concerts, Pink shirt anti-bullying day, and Winter Sports Day. The last several months of the school include Hats On for Mental Health, Music Monday, and Summer Sports Day.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Dr. George Stanley School Dr. George Stanley School opened in Cranston in 2017 and has over 80 students from grades four to nine currently enrolled. The school promotes an inclusive learning environment and a class structure that allows students to have a homeroom teacher that delivers much of the curricular content. Dr. George Stanley School strives for innovation, cooperation, authentic connections between all disciplines, exposure to career skills and the arts with their core classes. The staff at Dr. George Stanley School believe the education offered to students between the ages of 10-15 are critical in keeping our students on the path to high school completion and their career futures. Along with the Alberta Education’s mandated curriculum, Dr. George Stanley School offers a wide range of programs, extra-curricular activities and sports. The extra-curricular activities allow students to pursue passions and interests that fall outside the regular curriculum. These activities include special interest clubs, arts, music and athletics. Fine arts is open to students from grades four to nine, and students in grade five have the choice to join a general music option. From grades six to nine, students have the opportunity to be in the band and learn how to play an instrument of their choosing. For the different athletics options, any student in grades six to nine can participate. All sports have tryouts except for cross-country and wrestling, which require a consistent commitment to practices and meets. The sports teams available to students at Dr. George Stanley School include soccer, cross-country, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, badminton and track and field. Students of Dr. George Stanley School also have access to a wide range of clubs, including Leadership Club, Yearbook Club, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Jazz Band, Challenge Club, Eco Club, Book Club, Musical Theatre Appreciation Club and Movie Making Club.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale. Sibylla Kiddle School Sibylla Kiddle School will be the third public school in Cranston and will serve students from Kindergarten to grade four when it opens in September 2020 and Kindergarten to grade five by September 2021. Sibylla Kiddle Elementary School attendance area will cover the south half of Cranston. It will aim to keep students attending school as close to home as possible while balancing enrolment between the three schools.  Sibylla Kiddle School is named after a former teacher who went on to teach in a one-room school, south of Calgary, where she taught three daughters of a Cranston family. Later, Kiddle married Lloyd Cranston and gave birth to two children, before returning as a kindergarten teacher for the Calgary Board of Education.   Calgary Catholic Schools in Cranston Christ The King Catholic School Christ The King Catholic School is a kindergarten to grade nine school that opened its doors to the Cranston community on November 25, 2010, and is part of the Calgary Catholic School District. The school serves over 600 students within Cranston with limited enrollment. Students from Kindergarten to grade six residing in the north half of Cranston are within the attendance area for Christ the King School. Students in the south half of Cranston are in the attendance area of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School. Enrollment for grades seven to nine is open to all students within Cranston. School hours are from 8:55 am to 3:20 pm. Christ the King Catholic School strives to promote, model, and teach six fundamental values. These values are Faith, Family, Caring, Trust, Respect, and Responsibility. All activities, interactions, and planning begin with these values at the core. These six core values are incorporated into classroom learning, extra-curricular activities, school awards, playground activities, and Catholic celebrations. In addition to core curriculum programming Christ the King Catholic School offers students a variety of supplementary courses and extra-curricular activities which include career and technology foundations, diverse learning, drama and music and band. School athletic teams and programs include cross-country running, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, dance, badminton, flag football and track and field.  Want to see some Cranston Homes for Sale? Our Lady of the Rosary School Our Lady of the Rosary School is a kindergarten to grade six school located in the community of South Cranston that opened in 2017. The school offers a well-rounded, faith-based education in a caring, inclusive and nurturing community to meet each student’s unique needs. In addition to core curriculum programming mandated by Alberta Education, Our Lady of the Rosary School also offer their students a variety of supplementary courses, options and services, including diverse learning support, which assists students with their individual learning needs. Kindergarten students receive a minimum of 475 instructional hours each school year, and the program follows ten guiding principles to provide a framework. The values of the Catholic faith permeate all programming options within Calgary Catholic schools.  See some great Cranston Homes for Sale.   Each of Cranston’s school offers a unique and rewarding learning experience, providing them with strong foundations for the future. We know that choosing the right school for your family is an integral part of the home buying decision if you are looking for a home somewhere near one of these great schools contact us today to see how we can help you find your next dream home Want more information on Cranston?  Check out all listings at: Cranston Homes for Sale Cranston Condos for Sale Cranston Townhouses for Sale source https://www.elitehomerealestate.com/blog/schools-in-cranston-calgary-a-great-place-to-live.html
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Duterte’s vs. Aquino III Administration
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
According to Official Gazette, Under the Aquino administration, the profits of good governance are being translated into the development of the high-satisfactory of the life of all Filipinos, especially the poor and the vulnerable. Investing in the Filipino humans has usually been the cornerstone of the Aquino administration’s inclusive growth agenda—that is why social offerings hold to acquire the maximum proportion of the country wide budget, why the schooling machine has been remodeled to foster globally aggressive lifelong learners, and why the administration is fervently pursuing the aim of regularly occurring health care. The government’s mantra is clear: No one should be left at the back of at the immediately route to progress. On May 15, 2013, President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, institutionalizing the K to 12 Basic Education Program, which covers twelve months of kindergarten and 12 years of primary schooling (six years of primary education, 4 years of junior excessive faculty, and years of senior excessive faculty). The increased curriculum will offer enough time for the mastery of ideas and skills, for this reason growing lifelong learners.
President Rodrigo Duterte has constantly reassured the general public of his promise to maintain the preceding administration’s momentum for social improvement in addition to confront the demanding situations it failed to address by introducing radical changes. Although the first few months of his time period turned into spent on making real his marketing campaign promise on a struggle fare on drugs, Duterte, in his first State of the Nation Address in 2016 articulated the large strokes of his administration’s social improvement agenda: to enhance the people’s welfare with inside the regions of health, education, good enough meals and housing, among others. The 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan (PDP) fleshed out Duterte’s pronouncements into actual techniques and applications the authorities intends to pursue within side the subsequent 5 years. Banking on people’s aspirations, it intends to set up an awesome country wide vision/framework for improvement, placing it above the inclusive growth model promoted with the aid of using the ultimate administration. Highlighting the human improvement approach, the PDP aims to implement government “policies, plans and applications anchored at the people’s collective vision” to uplift the dwelling situations of each individual, result in the enlargement of the center elegance and obtain a society “wherein no person is poor. The growth targets offered within side the PDP but aren't completely as people-focused as they appear. (Raphael Baladad, 2017)
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PURCHASING POWER OF THE CITIZENS
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Under Aquino, the Philippines accomplished no small feat. Once dubbed the “Sick Man of Asia,” the financial system grew 6.nine percent with inside the first 3 months of 2016 to surpass all major Asian nations, which includes China. But possibly the exceptional success for the beyond six years is how the government placed its economic residence in order. From a excessive of almost five percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit dropped to most effective 0.9 percent remaining year. In fact, considering that 2011, Aquino has been criticized extra for not spending sufficient to help the financial system than for breaching deficit goals early in the year, something his predecessors had continuously done. (Magtulis, 2016)
While during Duterte’s administration, Panelo stated according to the Philippine Statistics Authority, services published the quickest increase with 6.9%; followed by enterprise with 5.6%; and agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing with 3.1%. (Darryl John Esguerra, 2019)
SUPPORT FOR ENTREPRENEUR AND INNOVATION 
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President Aquino has pitched for extra guide for micro, and small and medium establishments (MSMEs), spotting their key function in making financial increase greater inclusive. At the opening of the Apec SME Summit on the Green Sun Hotel in Makati City Tuesday, Mr. Aquino known as for strategic interventions to assist MSMEs compete in nearby and worldwide markets, particularly as nations dismantle alternate obstacles that a few humans worry might make small establishments live at the sidelines. Speaking earlier than a crowd of round 2,000, together with some of younger Filipino entrepreneurs, the President stated that at some stage in its yearlong web website hosting of Apec, the Philippines had broadened the scope of the summit and had given intensified interest to innovation, entrepreneurial development, enterprise resiliency, finance and capacity-constructing for MSMEs. (Tongo, 2015)
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the Philippine Innovation Act which aims to assist micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) turn out to be a part of the worldwide market. Republic Act No. 11293, signed on April 17, aims to put off limitations to innovation with the aid of using “suppressing bureaucratic hurdles,” and inspire the entrepreneurial mind-set to stimulate growth of nearby businesses. To obtain the country’s innovation dreams, the regulation calls for the government to have technology programs, innovation centers, innovation networks, technology platforms, cluster policies, and human capacity-constructing programs. The new degree additionally bureaucracy the National Innovation Council (NIC), that is tasked to broaden the country’s innovation desires and priorities. It may be chaired with the aid of using the President and vice-chaired with the aid of using the National Economic and Development Authority Director-General. Other Cabinet contributors consisting of the secretaries of change and industry, technology and era, transportation, health, energy, and country wide protection also are protected with inside the NIC. The NIC is needed to broaden a National Innovation Agenda and Strategy Document which will “set up the country’s imaginative and prescient and long-time period dreams for innovation.” The report may even functions a road map for enhancing innovation governance. (Merez, 2019)
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Based on the all information that I’ve gathered, I think that Duterte’s administration has more economic development compare to Auquino’s III administration. Aquino’s III also has a big contribution in the economy and helps some Filipino’s by his programmed which is the 4p’s. In Duterte’s Administration Train laws really has a big impact in developing our economy.
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New charter schools to open this fall despite efforts to curb growth
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Putting academics and other staff maintain up signs in Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.
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It took Tiffany Gilmore 14 months, two failed petitions to the Moreno Valley faculty board and two appeals to the Riverside County Board of Schooling before she secured approval to open her charter faculty. 
The Garvey/Allen Visible and Performing Arts Academy, which can open in August, will mix STEM and humanities schooling and can prioritize closing the achievement hole between white and black students, as well as white and Latino students. 
Gilmore, the varsity’s founder and CEO, is one among several constitution operators who will open faculties in California this fall regardless of an more and more contentious local weather surrounding the charter sector. 
Charter faculty progress in California has slowed over the previous five years, though final yr saw an uptick in the complete variety of charter faculties. Based on the California Constitution Faculty Affiliation, the complete number rose by 48 final fall — from 1,275 to 1,323 constitution faculties. That compared with a bounce of only 21 further faculties in 2017-18 and 24 the earlier yr.
Like Garvey/Allen Academy, there are a number of other constitution faculties across the state scheduled to open in the fall, together with Sycamore Creek Group Charter Faculty and the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Culture — both in Orange County — in addition to Imagine Faculties Hemet in Riverside County. 
The 4 faculties share a standard factor: They have been rejected by their local faculty boards before finally being accepted by their county workplaces of schooling, as permitted by the state’s 27-year-old charter faculty regulation.
Gilmore referred to as the petition process for the Garvey/Allen faculty “heartbreaking.” The varsity was rejected twice by the Moreno Valley faculty board and as soon as by the Riverside County Board of Schooling earlier than the county schooling board ultimately authorised the proposal in April. 
The Moreno Valley faculty board rejected the Garvey/Allen’s petition after the varsity district raised considerations about the way to serve particular schooling students and gifted college students. Katelyn Trottier, the lawyer who helped evaluate the petition for the district, also stated at a board assembly in September that the district had fiscal considerations concerning the faculty. She stated the varsity’s income projections appeared too high and the expenditures too low.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling initially rejected the varsity’s attraction in December and cited considerations over the varsity’s highschool program, in accordance with the Press-Enterprise. The board unanimously accepted the varsity in April after it eliminated its high school program from its petition. The Garvey/Allen academy will serve grades 5 via eight when it opens in August.
“Certainly one of our pillars is perseverance. So I can’t anticipate our [students] to persevere if I don’t set that tone,” Gilmore stated. “I just used that as my motivation and my momentum to only persevere by way of it four occasions.” 
Discontent with the growth of constitution faculties was a outstanding theme in both the Los Angeles and Oakland academics strikes earlier this yr, though it didn’t cease the approval of latest constitution faculties.
Los Angeles Unified Faculty District, which has the very best focus of charter faculties of any district within the state, has accredited at the least seven new constitution faculties because the finish of the Los Angeles academics strike in January. A type of faculties, the Gaspar De Portola Middle Faculty, will open within the fall, whereas the other six are scheduled to open in 2020.
Following the strikes, the academics unions backed laws that may have positioned a moratorium on new charter faculties. 
Senate Bill 756 would have imposed a two-year moratorium on any new constitution faculties. Assembly Bill 1506 would have capped constitution faculties at the number operating on Jan. 1 of 2020. Each of those bills have stalled in the Legislature. 
Legislation also was introduced this cycle that may have made it substantially harder for faculties like the Garvey/Allen Academy to get approval, by proscribing the power of charter faculties to attraction to county boards of schooling. Nevertheless, the bill (AB 1505) was amended July 5 based mostly on requests from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In its present type, county boards would nonetheless be capable of hear appeals, but the bill would strengthen the authorizing authority of the native faculty boards. 
A majority of members on a statewide activity pressure convened by State Superintendent of Public Instruction at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this yr supported a proposal that may forestall counties from hearing appeals of charter faculty denials, besides in instances where the varsity board dedicated an error. 
Such a rule would have prevented Garvey/Allen and other charter faculties from receiving the inexperienced mild to open this fall. 
Regardless of those efforts to restrict constitution faculties, Gilmore stated she was snug shifting ahead with the Garvey/Allen faculty because she trusted that Riverside County’s Board of Schooling was “pro-charter.”
The Sycamore Creek charter faculty and the International Faculty for Science and Tradition additionally faced roadblocks before receiving approval to open. They have been rejected by the Ocean View Faculty District and Newport-Mesa Unified Faculty District, respectively, before the Orange County Board of Schooling permitted the 2 faculties in March on attraction. The Ocean View Faculty District serves cities together with Huntington Seashore and Fountain Valley, whereas Newport-Mesa serves Newport Seashore and Costa Mesa.
In rejecting the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, the Newport-Mesa board cited a number of considerations over the varsity’s instructional program, including its plans for English-language learners and its match curriculum.
Members of the Ocean View Faculty District board expressed considerations over Sycamore Creek’s revenue projections and staffing plans once they rejected that faculty’s petition.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling additionally permitted charter faculty operator Think about Faculties to open a new campus in Hemet, despite opposition from the Hemet Unified Faculty District. 
Proponents of limiting the appeals process argue that selections on constitution faculties must be left to native faculty boards because they greatest perceive the wants of the communities they serve. 
“The varsity boards are the ones which might be responsible to the group. And really, that’s the place the authorization ought to be happening,” stated Erika Jones, a member of the California Academics Association’s board of directors (CTA), who also served on the statewide constitution faculty process drive. “They know the faculties they need, they perceive the group they serve.” 
Jones also famous that faculty board members are elected officials and that if a given group isn’t proud of the varsity board, the public “can converse with their vote.” 
However several constitution faculty advocates say that interesting to county boards is important because some faculty boards, they argue, have an incentive to deny constitution faculties because of considerations that faculty districts might lose funding as they lose college students to charter faculties. 
“Having the district be in command of approving the petition for a constitution faculty — it’s considerably like placing the fox in control of the henhouse,” stated Padmini Srinivasan, founding father of the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, one of many new constitution faculties in Orange County. “Each time a constitution faculty takes a sure variety of college students to teach them, that district is going to lose those college students and the associated dollars.” 
Sarah Bach, one of many founders of the Sycamore Creek faculty, agreed, adding that if she “was within the faculty board’s position, I might also be extremely protective of bringing in any charter faculties that have been probably going to be taking my college students because those funds comply with the students.” 
Bach stated efforts to impose a moratorium on charter faculties have been “scary” but added that she pushed by way of with opening the Sycamore Creek faculty as a result of she thinks it will be important for folks to have choices for his or her youngsters.
“I help conventional public faculties, nice conventional public faculties. However I also help the mother and father’ right to decide on,” she stated. “We deserve extra decisions.”
The operators of the brand new charter faculties stated their faculties will supply curricula which might be otherwise unavailable at traditional public faculties. Students ought to have various schooling choices, they argue. 
At Sycamore Creek faculty, college students will discover the visible and performing arts and take part in activities comparable to portray, drawing, singing and instrumental music. The varsity also is dedicated to the emotional progress of its college students, Bach stated. 
That was appealing to Rebecca Hendricks, whose son will probably be getting into kindergarten within the fall on the Sycamore Creek faculty in Orange County. The varsity’s curriculum will probably be guided by the Waldorf schooling mannequin, which among different things emphasizes arts integration in traditional educational topics. Sycamore Creek, nevertheless, isn’t formally acknowledged by the Association of Waldorf Faculties of North America. 
Hendricks stated she and her husband all the time imagined that their youngsters would attend a standard public faculty in Orange County’s Backyard Grove Unified Faculty District.
However once they visited their local elementary faculty, they felt that the varsity put an excessive amount of of an emphasis on educational rigor, which they thought would put too much strain on their son, Hendricks stated. 
“That’s kind of why we landed with Sycamore Creek Constitution as a result of, at the very least within the regional landscape that we surveyed, it appeared to be the only faculty that was going the path that prioritized things aside from educational rigor,” she added. 
Mary Baldridge, who has three youngsters who will attend the Sycamore Creek faculty in the fall, was similarly interested in the varsity’s arts-integrated curriculum. 
“With (Sycamore Creek) opening, it was only a actually fantastic alternative for us to step into that culture at this point in our lives,” Baldridge stated.
The Faculty for Science and Tradition in Orange County also will function a nontraditional curriculum, combining a STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering and Mathematics) focus with a language program that teaches students English, Chinese language and Spanish. The varsity also will function a program that develops students’ delicate expertise, or traits corresponding to individuals and social expertise that enable people to work nicely with others.
The Garvey/Allen faculty, meanwhile, will give attention to eliminating the achievement and opportunity gaps for black and Latino students, Gilmore stated. The varsity is open to all college students however has targeted its packages on the success of minority youngsters.
For instance, the varsity will implement restorative justice practices for self-discipline, which are packages that encourage students who misbehave to mirror on their actions and work with different college students to resolve conflicts, somewhat than be punished. Some research has indicated that such practices can scale back the racial discipline gap between white and black students in faculties.
“The contentious relationships that districts are taking with charters isn’t needed, as a result of we’re all principally saying the identical thing. Or we ought to be saying the identical thing: that we need to do what’s greatest for teenagers,” Gilmore added. “And so till districts can shut these gaps, … constitution faculties will continue to be here.” 
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New charter schools to open this fall despite efforts to curb growth
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Putting academics and other staff maintain up signs in Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.
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Hanging academics and other staff maintain up indicators in Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.
It took Tiffany Gilmore 14 months, two failed petitions to the Moreno Valley faculty board and two appeals to the Riverside County Board of Schooling before she secured approval to open her charter faculty. 
The Garvey/Allen Visible and Performing Arts Academy, which can open in August, will mix STEM and humanities schooling and can prioritize closing the achievement hole between white and black students, as well as white and Latino students. 
Gilmore, the varsity’s founder and CEO, is one among several constitution operators who will open faculties in California this fall regardless of an more and more contentious local weather surrounding the charter sector. 
Charter faculty progress in California has slowed over the previous five years, though final yr saw an uptick in the complete variety of charter faculties. Based on the California Constitution Faculty Affiliation, the complete number rose by 48 final fall — from 1,275 to 1,323 constitution faculties. That compared with a bounce of only 21 further faculties in 2017-18 and 24 the earlier yr.
Like Garvey/Allen Academy, there are a number of other constitution faculties across the state scheduled to open in the fall, together with Sycamore Creek Group Charter Faculty and the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Culture — both in Orange County — in addition to Imagine Faculties Hemet in Riverside County. 
The 4 faculties share a standard factor: They have been rejected by their local faculty boards before finally being accepted by their county workplaces of schooling, as permitted by the state’s 27-year-old charter faculty regulation.
Gilmore referred to as the petition process for the Garvey/Allen faculty “heartbreaking.” The varsity was rejected twice by the Moreno Valley faculty board and as soon as by the Riverside County Board of Schooling earlier than the county schooling board ultimately authorised the proposal in April. 
The Moreno Valley faculty board rejected the Garvey/Allen’s petition after the varsity district raised considerations about the way to serve particular schooling students and gifted college students. Katelyn Trottier, the lawyer who helped evaluate the petition for the district, also stated at a board assembly in September that the district had fiscal considerations concerning the faculty. She stated the varsity’s income projections appeared too high and the expenditures too low.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling initially rejected the varsity’s attraction in December and cited considerations over the varsity’s highschool program, in accordance with the Press-Enterprise. The board unanimously accepted the varsity in April after it eliminated its high school program from its petition. The Garvey/Allen academy will serve grades 5 via eight when it opens in August.
“Certainly one of our pillars is perseverance. So I can’t anticipate our [students] to persevere if I don’t set that tone,” Gilmore stated. “I just used that as my motivation and my momentum to only persevere by way of it four occasions.” 
Discontent with the growth of constitution faculties was a outstanding theme in both the Los Angeles and Oakland academics strikes earlier this yr, though it didn’t cease the approval of latest constitution faculties.
Los Angeles Unified Faculty District, which has the very best focus of charter faculties of any district within the state, has accredited at the least seven new constitution faculties because the finish of the Los Angeles academics strike in January. A type of faculties, the Gaspar De Portola Middle Faculty, will open within the fall, whereas the other six are scheduled to open in 2020.
Following the strikes, the academics unions backed laws that may have positioned a moratorium on new charter faculties. 
Senate Bill 756 would have imposed a two-year moratorium on any new constitution faculties. Assembly Bill 1506 would have capped constitution faculties at the number operating on Jan. 1 of 2020. Each of those bills have stalled in the Legislature. 
Legislation also was introduced this cycle that may have made it substantially harder for faculties like the Garvey/Allen Academy to get approval, by proscribing the power of charter faculties to attraction to county boards of schooling. Nevertheless, the bill (AB 1505) was amended July 5 based mostly on requests from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In its present type, county boards would nonetheless be capable of hear appeals, but the bill would strengthen the authorizing authority of the native faculty boards. 
A majority of members on a statewide activity pressure convened by State Superintendent of Public Instruction at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this yr supported a proposal that may forestall counties from hearing appeals of charter faculty denials, besides in instances where the varsity board dedicated an error. 
Such a rule would have prevented Garvey/Allen and other charter faculties from receiving the inexperienced mild to open this fall. 
Regardless of those efforts to restrict constitution faculties, Gilmore stated she was snug shifting ahead with the Garvey/Allen faculty because she trusted that Riverside County’s Board of Schooling was “pro-charter.”
The Sycamore Creek charter faculty and the International Faculty for Science and Tradition additionally faced roadblocks before receiving approval to open. They have been rejected by the Ocean View Faculty District and Newport-Mesa Unified Faculty District, respectively, before the Orange County Board of Schooling permitted the 2 faculties in March on attraction. The Ocean View Faculty District serves cities together with Huntington Seashore and Fountain Valley, whereas Newport-Mesa serves Newport Seashore and Costa Mesa.
In rejecting the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, the Newport-Mesa board cited a number of considerations over the varsity’s instructional program, including its plans for English-language learners and its match curriculum.
Members of the Ocean View Faculty District board expressed considerations over Sycamore Creek’s revenue projections and staffing plans once they rejected that faculty’s petition.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling additionally permitted charter faculty operator Think about Faculties to open a new campus in Hemet, despite opposition from the Hemet Unified Faculty District. 
Proponents of limiting the appeals process argue that selections on constitution faculties must be left to native faculty boards because they greatest perceive the wants of the communities they serve. 
“The varsity boards are the ones which might be responsible to the group. And really, that’s the place the authorization ought to be happening,” stated Erika Jones, a member of the California Academics Association’s board of directors (CTA), who also served on the statewide constitution faculty process drive. “They know the faculties they need, they perceive the group they serve.” 
Jones also famous that faculty board members are elected officials and that if a given group isn’t proud of the varsity board, the public “can converse with their vote.” 
However several constitution faculty advocates say that interesting to county boards is important because some faculty boards, they argue, have an incentive to deny constitution faculties because of considerations that faculty districts might lose funding as they lose college students to charter faculties. 
“Having the district be in command of approving the petition for a constitution faculty — it’s considerably like placing the fox in control of the henhouse,” stated Padmini Srinivasan, founding father of the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, one of many new constitution faculties in Orange County. “Each time a constitution faculty takes a sure variety of college students to teach them, that district is going to lose those college students and the associated dollars.” 
Sarah Bach, one of many founders of the Sycamore Creek faculty, agreed, adding that if she “was within the faculty board’s position, I might also be extremely protective of bringing in any charter faculties that have been probably going to be taking my college students because those funds comply with the students.” 
Bach stated efforts to impose a moratorium on charter faculties have been “scary” but added that she pushed by way of with opening the Sycamore Creek faculty as a result of she thinks it will be important for folks to have choices for his or her youngsters.
“I help conventional public faculties, nice conventional public faculties. However I also help the mother and father’ right to decide on,” she stated. “We deserve extra decisions.”
The operators of the brand new charter faculties stated their faculties will supply curricula which might be otherwise unavailable at traditional public faculties. Students ought to have various schooling choices, they argue. 
At Sycamore Creek faculty, college students will discover the visible and performing arts and take part in activities comparable to portray, drawing, singing and instrumental music. The varsity also is dedicated to the emotional progress of its college students, Bach stated. 
That was appealing to Rebecca Hendricks, whose son will probably be getting into kindergarten within the fall on the Sycamore Creek faculty in Orange County. The varsity’s curriculum will probably be guided by the Waldorf schooling mannequin, which among different things emphasizes arts integration in traditional educational topics. Sycamore Creek, nevertheless, isn’t formally acknowledged by the Association of Waldorf Faculties of North America. 
Hendricks stated she and her husband all the time imagined that their youngsters would attend a standard public faculty in Orange County’s Backyard Grove Unified Faculty District.
However once they visited their local elementary faculty, they felt that the varsity put an excessive amount of of an emphasis on educational rigor, which they thought would put too much strain on their son, Hendricks stated. 
“That’s kind of why we landed with Sycamore Creek Constitution as a result of, at the very least within the regional landscape that we surveyed, it appeared to be the only faculty that was going the path that prioritized things aside from educational rigor,” she added. 
Mary Baldridge, who has three youngsters who will attend the Sycamore Creek faculty in the fall, was similarly interested in the varsity’s arts-integrated curriculum. 
“With (Sycamore Creek) opening, it was only a actually fantastic alternative for us to step into that culture at this point in our lives,” Baldridge stated.
The Faculty for Science and Tradition in Orange County also will function a nontraditional curriculum, combining a STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering and Mathematics) focus with a language program that teaches students English, Chinese language and Spanish. The varsity also will function a program that develops students’ delicate expertise, or traits corresponding to individuals and social expertise that enable people to work nicely with others.
The Garvey/Allen faculty, meanwhile, will give attention to eliminating the achievement and opportunity gaps for black and Latino students, Gilmore stated. The varsity is open to all college students however has targeted its packages on the success of minority youngsters.
For instance, the varsity will implement restorative justice practices for self-discipline, which are packages that encourage students who misbehave to mirror on their actions and work with different college students to resolve conflicts, somewhat than be punished. Some research has indicated that such practices can scale back the racial discipline gap between white and black students in faculties.
“The contentious relationships that districts are taking with charters isn’t needed, as a result of we’re all principally saying the identical thing. Or we ought to be saying the identical thing: that we need to do what’s greatest for teenagers,” Gilmore added. “And so till districts can shut these gaps, … constitution faculties will continue to be here.” 
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New charter schools to open this fall despite efforts to curb growth
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It took Tiffany Gilmore 14 months, two failed petitions to the Moreno Valley faculty board and two appeals to the Riverside County Board of Schooling before she secured approval to open her charter faculty. 
The Garvey/Allen Visible and Performing Arts Academy, which can open in August, will mix STEM and humanities schooling and can prioritize closing the achievement hole between white and black students, as well as white and Latino students. 
Gilmore, the varsity’s founder and CEO, is one among several constitution operators who will open faculties in California this fall regardless of an more and more contentious local weather surrounding the charter sector. 
Charter faculty progress in California has slowed over the previous five years, though final yr saw an uptick in the complete variety of charter faculties. Based on the California Constitution Faculty Affiliation, the complete number rose by 48 final fall — from 1,275 to 1,323 constitution faculties. That compared with a bounce of only 21 further faculties in 2017-18 and 24 the earlier yr.
Like Garvey/Allen Academy, there are a number of other constitution faculties across the state scheduled to open in the fall, together with Sycamore Creek Group Charter Faculty and the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Culture — both in Orange County — in addition to Imagine Faculties Hemet in Riverside County. 
The 4 faculties share a standard factor: They have been rejected by their local faculty boards before finally being accepted by their county workplaces of schooling, as permitted by the state’s 27-year-old charter faculty regulation.
Gilmore referred to as the petition process for the Garvey/Allen faculty “heartbreaking.” The varsity was rejected twice by the Moreno Valley faculty board and as soon as by the Riverside County Board of Schooling earlier than the county schooling board ultimately authorised the proposal in April. 
The Moreno Valley faculty board rejected the Garvey/Allen’s petition after the varsity district raised considerations about the way to serve particular schooling students and gifted college students. Katelyn Trottier, the lawyer who helped evaluate the petition for the district, also stated at a board assembly in September that the district had fiscal considerations concerning the faculty. She stated the varsity’s income projections appeared too high and the expenditures too low.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling initially rejected the varsity’s attraction in December and cited considerations over the varsity’s highschool program, in accordance with the Press-Enterprise. The board unanimously accepted the varsity in April after it eliminated its high school program from its petition. The Garvey/Allen academy will serve grades 5 via eight when it opens in August.
“Certainly one of our pillars is perseverance. So I can’t anticipate our [students] to persevere if I don’t set that tone,” Gilmore stated. “I just used that as my motivation and my momentum to only persevere by way of it four occasions.” 
Discontent with the growth of constitution faculties was a outstanding theme in both the Los Angeles and Oakland academics strikes earlier this yr, though it didn’t cease the approval of latest constitution faculties.
Los Angeles Unified Faculty District, which has the very best focus of charter faculties of any district within the state, has accredited at the least seven new constitution faculties because the finish of the Los Angeles academics strike in January. A type of faculties, the Gaspar De Portola Middle Faculty, will open within the fall, whereas the other six are scheduled to open in 2020.
Following the strikes, the academics unions backed laws that may have positioned a moratorium on new charter faculties. 
Senate Bill 756 would have imposed a two-year moratorium on any new constitution faculties. Assembly Bill 1506 would have capped constitution faculties at the number operating on Jan. 1 of 2020. Each of those bills have stalled in the Legislature. 
Legislation also was introduced this cycle that may have made it substantially harder for faculties like the Garvey/Allen Academy to get approval, by proscribing the power of charter faculties to attraction to county boards of schooling. Nevertheless, the bill (AB 1505) was amended July 5 based mostly on requests from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In its present type, county boards would nonetheless be capable of hear appeals, but the bill would strengthen the authorizing authority of the native faculty boards. 
A majority of members on a statewide activity pressure convened by State Superintendent of Public Instruction at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this yr supported a proposal that may forestall counties from hearing appeals of charter faculty denials, besides in instances where the varsity board dedicated an error. 
Such a rule would have prevented Garvey/Allen and other charter faculties from receiving the inexperienced mild to open this fall. 
Regardless of those efforts to restrict constitution faculties, Gilmore stated she was snug shifting ahead with the Garvey/Allen faculty because she trusted that Riverside County’s Board of Schooling was “pro-charter.”
The Sycamore Creek charter faculty and the International Faculty for Science and Tradition additionally faced roadblocks before receiving approval to open. They have been rejected by the Ocean View Faculty District and Newport-Mesa Unified Faculty District, respectively, before the Orange County Board of Schooling permitted the 2 faculties in March on attraction. The Ocean View Faculty District serves cities together with Huntington Seashore and Fountain Valley, whereas Newport-Mesa serves Newport Seashore and Costa Mesa.
In rejecting the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, the Newport-Mesa board cited a number of considerations over the varsity’s instructional program, including its plans for English-language learners and its match curriculum.
Members of the Ocean View Faculty District board expressed considerations over Sycamore Creek’s revenue projections and staffing plans once they rejected that faculty’s petition.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling additionally permitted charter faculty operator Think about Faculties to open a new campus in Hemet, despite opposition from the Hemet Unified Faculty District. 
Proponents of limiting the appeals process argue that selections on constitution faculties must be left to native faculty boards because they greatest perceive the wants of the communities they serve. 
“The varsity boards are the ones which might be responsible to the group. And really, that’s the place the authorization ought to be happening,” stated Erika Jones, a member of the California Academics Association’s board of directors (CTA), who also served on the statewide constitution faculty process drive. “They know the faculties they need, they perceive the group they serve.” 
Jones also famous that faculty board members are elected officials and that if a given group isn’t proud of the varsity board, the public “can converse with their vote.” 
However several constitution faculty advocates say that interesting to county boards is important because some faculty boards, they argue, have an incentive to deny constitution faculties because of considerations that faculty districts might lose funding as they lose college students to charter faculties. 
“Having the district be in command of approving the petition for a constitution faculty — it’s considerably like placing the fox in control of the henhouse,” stated Padmini Srinivasan, founding father of the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, one of many new constitution faculties in Orange County. “Each time a constitution faculty takes a sure variety of college students to teach them, that district is going to lose those college students and the associated dollars.” 
Sarah Bach, one of many founders of the Sycamore Creek faculty, agreed, adding that if she “was within the faculty board’s position, I might also be extremely protective of bringing in any charter faculties that have been probably going to be taking my college students because those funds comply with the students.” 
Bach stated efforts to impose a moratorium on charter faculties have been “scary” but added that she pushed by way of with opening the Sycamore Creek faculty as a result of she thinks it will be important for folks to have choices for his or her youngsters.
“I help conventional public faculties, nice conventional public faculties. However I also help the mother and father’ right to decide on,” she stated. “We deserve extra decisions.”
The operators of the brand new charter faculties stated their faculties will supply curricula which might be otherwise unavailable at traditional public faculties. Students ought to have various schooling choices, they argue. 
At Sycamore Creek faculty, college students will discover the visible and performing arts and take part in activities comparable to portray, drawing, singing and instrumental music. The varsity also is dedicated to the emotional progress of its college students, Bach stated. 
That was appealing to Rebecca Hendricks, whose son will probably be getting into kindergarten within the fall on the Sycamore Creek faculty in Orange County. The varsity’s curriculum will probably be guided by the Waldorf schooling mannequin, which among different things emphasizes arts integration in traditional educational topics. Sycamore Creek, nevertheless, isn’t formally acknowledged by the Association of Waldorf Faculties of North America. 
Hendricks stated she and her husband all the time imagined that their youngsters would attend a standard public faculty in Orange County’s Backyard Grove Unified Faculty District.
However once they visited their local elementary faculty, they felt that the varsity put an excessive amount of of an emphasis on educational rigor, which they thought would put too much strain on their son, Hendricks stated. 
“That’s kind of why we landed with Sycamore Creek Constitution as a result of, at the very least within the regional landscape that we surveyed, it appeared to be the only faculty that was going the path that prioritized things aside from educational rigor,” she added. 
Mary Baldridge, who has three youngsters who will attend the Sycamore Creek faculty in the fall, was similarly interested in the varsity’s arts-integrated curriculum. 
“With (Sycamore Creek) opening, it was only a actually fantastic alternative for us to step into that culture at this point in our lives,” Baldridge stated.
The Faculty for Science and Tradition in Orange County also will function a nontraditional curriculum, combining a STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering and Mathematics) focus with a language program that teaches students English, Chinese language and Spanish. The varsity also will function a program that develops students’ delicate expertise, or traits corresponding to individuals and social expertise that enable people to work nicely with others.
The Garvey/Allen faculty, meanwhile, will give attention to eliminating the achievement and opportunity gaps for black and Latino students, Gilmore stated. The varsity is open to all college students however has targeted its packages on the success of minority youngsters.
For instance, the varsity will implement restorative justice practices for self-discipline, which are packages that encourage students who misbehave to mirror on their actions and work with different college students to resolve conflicts, somewhat than be punished. Some research has indicated that such practices can scale back the racial discipline gap between white and black students in faculties.
“The contentious relationships that districts are taking with charters isn’t needed, as a result of we’re all principally saying the identical thing. Or we ought to be saying the identical thing: that we need to do what’s greatest for teenagers,” Gilmore added. “And so till districts can shut these gaps, … constitution faculties will continue to be here.” 
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It took Tiffany Gilmore 14 months, two failed petitions to the Moreno Valley faculty board and two appeals to the Riverside County Board of Schooling before she secured approval to open her charter faculty. 
The Garvey/Allen Visible and Performing Arts Academy, which can open in August, will mix STEM and humanities schooling and can prioritize closing the achievement hole between white and black students, as well as white and Latino students. 
Gilmore, the varsity’s founder and CEO, is one among several constitution operators who will open faculties in California this fall regardless of an more and more contentious local weather surrounding the charter sector. 
Charter faculty progress in California has slowed over the previous five years, though final yr saw an uptick in the complete variety of charter faculties. Based on the California Constitution Faculty Affiliation, the complete number rose by 48 final fall — from 1,275 to 1,323 constitution faculties. That compared with a bounce of only 21 further faculties in 2017-18 and 24 the earlier yr.
Like Garvey/Allen Academy, there are a number of other constitution faculties across the state scheduled to open in the fall, together with Sycamore Creek Group Charter Faculty and the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Culture — both in Orange County — in addition to Imagine Faculties Hemet in Riverside County. 
The 4 faculties share a standard factor: They have been rejected by their local faculty boards before finally being accepted by their county workplaces of schooling, as permitted by the state’s 27-year-old charter faculty regulation.
Gilmore referred to as the petition process for the Garvey/Allen faculty “heartbreaking.” The varsity was rejected twice by the Moreno Valley faculty board and as soon as by the Riverside County Board of Schooling earlier than the county schooling board ultimately authorised the proposal in April. 
The Moreno Valley faculty board rejected the Garvey/Allen’s petition after the varsity district raised considerations about the way to serve particular schooling students and gifted college students. Katelyn Trottier, the lawyer who helped evaluate the petition for the district, also stated at a board assembly in September that the district had fiscal considerations concerning the faculty. She stated the varsity’s income projections appeared too high and the expenditures too low.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling initially rejected the varsity’s attraction in December and cited considerations over the varsity’s highschool program, in accordance with the Press-Enterprise. The board unanimously accepted the varsity in April after it eliminated its high school program from its petition. The Garvey/Allen academy will serve grades 5 via eight when it opens in August.
“Certainly one of our pillars is perseverance. So I can’t anticipate our [students] to persevere if I don’t set that tone,” Gilmore stated. “I just used that as my motivation and my momentum to only persevere by way of it four occasions.” 
Discontent with the growth of constitution faculties was a outstanding theme in both the Los Angeles and Oakland academics strikes earlier this yr, though it didn’t cease the approval of latest constitution faculties.
Los Angeles Unified Faculty District, which has the very best focus of charter faculties of any district within the state, has accredited at the least seven new constitution faculties because the finish of the Los Angeles academics strike in January. A type of faculties, the Gaspar De Portola Middle Faculty, will open within the fall, whereas the other six are scheduled to open in 2020.
Following the strikes, the academics unions backed laws that may have positioned a moratorium on new charter faculties. 
Senate Bill 756 would have imposed a two-year moratorium on any new constitution faculties. Assembly Bill 1506 would have capped constitution faculties at the number operating on Jan. 1 of 2020. Each of those bills have stalled in the Legislature. 
Legislation also was introduced this cycle that may have made it substantially harder for faculties like the Garvey/Allen Academy to get approval, by proscribing the power of charter faculties to attraction to county boards of schooling. Nevertheless, the bill (AB 1505) was amended July 5 based mostly on requests from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In its present type, county boards would nonetheless be capable of hear appeals, but the bill would strengthen the authorizing authority of the native faculty boards. 
A majority of members on a statewide activity pressure convened by State Superintendent of Public Instruction at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this yr supported a proposal that may forestall counties from hearing appeals of charter faculty denials, besides in instances where the varsity board dedicated an error. 
Such a rule would have prevented Garvey/Allen and other charter faculties from receiving the inexperienced mild to open this fall. 
Regardless of those efforts to restrict constitution faculties, Gilmore stated she was snug shifting ahead with the Garvey/Allen faculty because she trusted that Riverside County’s Board of Schooling was “pro-charter.”
The Sycamore Creek charter faculty and the International Faculty for Science and Tradition additionally faced roadblocks before receiving approval to open. They have been rejected by the Ocean View Faculty District and Newport-Mesa Unified Faculty District, respectively, before the Orange County Board of Schooling permitted the 2 faculties in March on attraction. The Ocean View Faculty District serves cities together with Huntington Seashore and Fountain Valley, whereas Newport-Mesa serves Newport Seashore and Costa Mesa.
In rejecting the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, the Newport-Mesa board cited a number of considerations over the varsity’s instructional program, including its plans for English-language learners and its match curriculum.
Members of the Ocean View Faculty District board expressed considerations over Sycamore Creek’s revenue projections and staffing plans once they rejected that faculty’s petition.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling additionally permitted charter faculty operator Think about Faculties to open a new campus in Hemet, despite opposition from the Hemet Unified Faculty District. 
Proponents of limiting the appeals process argue that selections on constitution faculties must be left to native faculty boards because they greatest perceive the wants of the communities they serve. 
“The varsity boards are the ones which might be responsible to the group. And really, that’s the place the authorization ought to be happening,” stated Erika Jones, a member of the California Academics Association’s board of directors (CTA), who also served on the statewide constitution faculty process drive. “They know the faculties they need, they perceive the group they serve.” 
Jones also famous that faculty board members are elected officials and that if a given group isn’t proud of the varsity board, the public “can converse with their vote.” 
However several constitution faculty advocates say that interesting to county boards is important because some faculty boards, they argue, have an incentive to deny constitution faculties because of considerations that faculty districts might lose funding as they lose college students to charter faculties. 
“Having the district be in command of approving the petition for a constitution faculty — it’s considerably like placing the fox in control of the henhouse,” stated Padmini Srinivasan, founding father of the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, one of many new constitution faculties in Orange County. “Each time a constitution faculty takes a sure variety of college students to teach them, that district is going to lose those college students and the associated dollars.” 
Sarah Bach, one of many founders of the Sycamore Creek faculty, agreed, adding that if she “was within the faculty board’s position, I might also be extremely protective of bringing in any charter faculties that have been probably going to be taking my college students because those funds comply with the students.” 
Bach stated efforts to impose a moratorium on charter faculties have been “scary” but added that she pushed by way of with opening the Sycamore Creek faculty as a result of she thinks it will be important for folks to have choices for his or her youngsters.
“I help conventional public faculties, nice conventional public faculties. However I also help the mother and father’ right to decide on,” she stated. “We deserve extra decisions.”
The operators of the brand new charter faculties stated their faculties will supply curricula which might be otherwise unavailable at traditional public faculties. Students ought to have various schooling choices, they argue. 
At Sycamore Creek faculty, college students will discover the visible and performing arts and take part in activities comparable to portray, drawing, singing and instrumental music. The varsity also is dedicated to the emotional progress of its college students, Bach stated. 
That was appealing to Rebecca Hendricks, whose son will probably be getting into kindergarten within the fall on the Sycamore Creek faculty in Orange County. The varsity’s curriculum will probably be guided by the Waldorf schooling mannequin, which among different things emphasizes arts integration in traditional educational topics. Sycamore Creek, nevertheless, isn’t formally acknowledged by the Association of Waldorf Faculties of North America. 
Hendricks stated she and her husband all the time imagined that their youngsters would attend a standard public faculty in Orange County’s Backyard Grove Unified Faculty District.
However once they visited their local elementary faculty, they felt that the varsity put an excessive amount of of an emphasis on educational rigor, which they thought would put too much strain on their son, Hendricks stated. 
“That’s kind of why we landed with Sycamore Creek Constitution as a result of, at the very least within the regional landscape that we surveyed, it appeared to be the only faculty that was going the path that prioritized things aside from educational rigor,” she added. 
Mary Baldridge, who has three youngsters who will attend the Sycamore Creek faculty in the fall, was similarly interested in the varsity’s arts-integrated curriculum. 
“With (Sycamore Creek) opening, it was only a actually fantastic alternative for us to step into that culture at this point in our lives,” Baldridge stated.
The Faculty for Science and Tradition in Orange County also will function a nontraditional curriculum, combining a STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering and Mathematics) focus with a language program that teaches students English, Chinese language and Spanish. The varsity also will function a program that develops students’ delicate expertise, or traits corresponding to individuals and social expertise that enable people to work nicely with others.
The Garvey/Allen faculty, meanwhile, will give attention to eliminating the achievement and opportunity gaps for black and Latino students, Gilmore stated. The varsity is open to all college students however has targeted its packages on the success of minority youngsters.
For instance, the varsity will implement restorative justice practices for self-discipline, which are packages that encourage students who misbehave to mirror on their actions and work with different college students to resolve conflicts, somewhat than be punished. Some research has indicated that such practices can scale back the racial discipline gap between white and black students in faculties.
“The contentious relationships that districts are taking with charters isn’t needed, as a result of we’re all principally saying the identical thing. Or we ought to be saying the identical thing: that we need to do what’s greatest for teenagers,” Gilmore added. “And so till districts can shut these gaps, … constitution faculties will continue to be here.” 
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It took Tiffany Gilmore 14 months, two failed petitions to the Moreno Valley faculty board and two appeals to the Riverside County Board of Schooling before she secured approval to open her charter faculty. 
The Garvey/Allen Visible and Performing Arts Academy, which can open in August, will mix STEM and humanities schooling and can prioritize closing the achievement hole between white and black students, as well as white and Latino students. 
Gilmore, the varsity’s founder and CEO, is one among several constitution operators who will open faculties in California this fall regardless of an more and more contentious local weather surrounding the charter sector. 
Charter faculty progress in California has slowed over the previous five years, though final yr saw an uptick in the complete variety of charter faculties. Based on the California Constitution Faculty Affiliation, the complete number rose by 48 final fall — from 1,275 to 1,323 constitution faculties. That compared with a bounce of only 21 further faculties in 2017-18 and 24 the earlier yr.
Like Garvey/Allen Academy, there are a number of other constitution faculties across the state scheduled to open in the fall, together with Sycamore Creek Group Charter Faculty and the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Culture — both in Orange County — in addition to Imagine Faculties Hemet in Riverside County. 
The 4 faculties share a standard factor: They have been rejected by their local faculty boards before finally being accepted by their county workplaces of schooling, as permitted by the state’s 27-year-old charter faculty regulation.
Gilmore referred to as the petition process for the Garvey/Allen faculty “heartbreaking.” The varsity was rejected twice by the Moreno Valley faculty board and as soon as by the Riverside County Board of Schooling earlier than the county schooling board ultimately authorised the proposal in April. 
The Moreno Valley faculty board rejected the Garvey/Allen’s petition after the varsity district raised considerations about the way to serve particular schooling students and gifted college students. Katelyn Trottier, the lawyer who helped evaluate the petition for the district, also stated at a board assembly in September that the district had fiscal considerations concerning the faculty. She stated the varsity’s income projections appeared too high and the expenditures too low.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling initially rejected the varsity’s attraction in December and cited considerations over the varsity’s highschool program, in accordance with the Press-Enterprise. The board unanimously accepted the varsity in April after it eliminated its high school program from its petition. The Garvey/Allen academy will serve grades 5 via eight when it opens in August.
“Certainly one of our pillars is perseverance. So I can’t anticipate our [students] to persevere if I don’t set that tone,” Gilmore stated. “I just used that as my motivation and my momentum to only persevere by way of it four occasions.” 
Discontent with the growth of constitution faculties was a outstanding theme in both the Los Angeles and Oakland academics strikes earlier this yr, though it didn’t cease the approval of latest constitution faculties.
Los Angeles Unified Faculty District, which has the very best focus of charter faculties of any district within the state, has accredited at the least seven new constitution faculties because the finish of the Los Angeles academics strike in January. A type of faculties, the Gaspar De Portola Middle Faculty, will open within the fall, whereas the other six are scheduled to open in 2020.
Following the strikes, the academics unions backed laws that may have positioned a moratorium on new charter faculties. 
Senate Bill 756 would have imposed a two-year moratorium on any new constitution faculties. Assembly Bill 1506 would have capped constitution faculties at the number operating on Jan. 1 of 2020. Each of those bills have stalled in the Legislature. 
Legislation also was introduced this cycle that may have made it substantially harder for faculties like the Garvey/Allen Academy to get approval, by proscribing the power of charter faculties to attraction to county boards of schooling. Nevertheless, the bill (AB 1505) was amended July 5 based mostly on requests from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In its present type, county boards would nonetheless be capable of hear appeals, but the bill would strengthen the authorizing authority of the native faculty boards. 
A majority of members on a statewide activity pressure convened by State Superintendent of Public Instruction at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this yr supported a proposal that may forestall counties from hearing appeals of charter faculty denials, besides in instances where the varsity board dedicated an error. 
Such a rule would have prevented Garvey/Allen and other charter faculties from receiving the inexperienced mild to open this fall. 
Regardless of those efforts to restrict constitution faculties, Gilmore stated she was snug shifting ahead with the Garvey/Allen faculty because she trusted that Riverside County’s Board of Schooling was “pro-charter.”
The Sycamore Creek charter faculty and the International Faculty for Science and Tradition additionally faced roadblocks before receiving approval to open. They have been rejected by the Ocean View Faculty District and Newport-Mesa Unified Faculty District, respectively, before the Orange County Board of Schooling permitted the 2 faculties in March on attraction. The Ocean View Faculty District serves cities together with Huntington Seashore and Fountain Valley, whereas Newport-Mesa serves Newport Seashore and Costa Mesa.
In rejecting the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, the Newport-Mesa board cited a number of considerations over the varsity’s instructional program, including its plans for English-language learners and its match curriculum.
Members of the Ocean View Faculty District board expressed considerations over Sycamore Creek’s revenue projections and staffing plans once they rejected that faculty’s petition.
The Riverside County Board of Schooling additionally permitted charter faculty operator Think about Faculties to open a new campus in Hemet, despite opposition from the Hemet Unified Faculty District. 
Proponents of limiting the appeals process argue that selections on constitution faculties must be left to native faculty boards because they greatest perceive the wants of the communities they serve. 
“The varsity boards are the ones which might be responsible to the group. And really, that’s the place the authorization ought to be happening,” stated Erika Jones, a member of the California Academics Association’s board of directors (CTA), who also served on the statewide constitution faculty process drive. “They know the faculties they need, they perceive the group they serve.” 
Jones also famous that faculty board members are elected officials and that if a given group isn’t proud of the varsity board, the public “can converse with their vote.” 
However several constitution faculty advocates say that interesting to county boards is important because some faculty boards, they argue, have an incentive to deny constitution faculties because of considerations that faculty districts might lose funding as they lose college students to charter faculties. 
“Having the district be in command of approving the petition for a constitution faculty — it’s considerably like placing the fox in control of the henhouse,” stated Padmini Srinivasan, founding father of the Worldwide Faculty for Science and Tradition, one of many new constitution faculties in Orange County. “Each time a constitution faculty takes a sure variety of college students to teach them, that district is going to lose those college students and the associated dollars.” 
Sarah Bach, one of many founders of the Sycamore Creek faculty, agreed, adding that if she “was within the faculty board’s position, I might also be extremely protective of bringing in any charter faculties that have been probably going to be taking my college students because those funds comply with the students.” 
Bach stated efforts to impose a moratorium on charter faculties have been “scary” but added that she pushed by way of with opening the Sycamore Creek faculty as a result of she thinks it will be important for folks to have choices for his or her youngsters.
“I help conventional public faculties, nice conventional public faculties. However I also help the mother and father’ right to decide on,” she stated. “We deserve extra decisions.”
The operators of the brand new charter faculties stated their faculties will supply curricula which might be otherwise unavailable at traditional public faculties. Students ought to have various schooling choices, they argue. 
At Sycamore Creek faculty, college students will discover the visible and performing arts and take part in activities comparable to portray, drawing, singing and instrumental music. The varsity also is dedicated to the emotional progress of its college students, Bach stated. 
That was appealing to Rebecca Hendricks, whose son will probably be getting into kindergarten within the fall on the Sycamore Creek faculty in Orange County. The varsity’s curriculum will probably be guided by the Waldorf schooling mannequin, which among different things emphasizes arts integration in traditional educational topics. Sycamore Creek, nevertheless, isn’t formally acknowledged by the Association of Waldorf Faculties of North America. 
Hendricks stated she and her husband all the time imagined that their youngsters would attend a standard public faculty in Orange County’s Backyard Grove Unified Faculty District.
However once they visited their local elementary faculty, they felt that the varsity put an excessive amount of of an emphasis on educational rigor, which they thought would put too much strain on their son, Hendricks stated. 
“That’s kind of why we landed with Sycamore Creek Constitution as a result of, at the very least within the regional landscape that we surveyed, it appeared to be the only faculty that was going the path that prioritized things aside from educational rigor,” she added. 
Mary Baldridge, who has three youngsters who will attend the Sycamore Creek faculty in the fall, was similarly interested in the varsity’s arts-integrated curriculum. 
“With (Sycamore Creek) opening, it was only a actually fantastic alternative for us to step into that culture at this point in our lives,” Baldridge stated.
The Faculty for Science and Tradition in Orange County also will function a nontraditional curriculum, combining a STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering and Mathematics) focus with a language program that teaches students English, Chinese language and Spanish. The varsity also will function a program that develops students’ delicate expertise, or traits corresponding to individuals and social expertise that enable people to work nicely with others.
The Garvey/Allen faculty, meanwhile, will give attention to eliminating the achievement and opportunity gaps for black and Latino students, Gilmore stated. The varsity is open to all college students however has targeted its packages on the success of minority youngsters.
For instance, the varsity will implement restorative justice practices for self-discipline, which are packages that encourage students who misbehave to mirror on their actions and work with different college students to resolve conflicts, somewhat than be punished. Some research has indicated that such practices can scale back the racial discipline gap between white and black students in faculties.
“The contentious relationships that districts are taking with charters isn’t needed, as a result of we’re all principally saying the identical thing. Or we ought to be saying the identical thing: that we need to do what’s greatest for teenagers,” Gilmore added. “And so till districts can shut these gaps, … constitution faculties will continue to be here.” 
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We are the 2016-2017 Museum Education Fellows! In September we went through 6 weeks of intensive training which included daily meetings with the Fellowship Coordinator, pedagogy and practice workshops with Brooklyn Museum Educators, Curators, Conservators, and more! Since mid-october, collectively, we have taught over 440 visiting school groups (that’s over 10,000 individuals!) along with many other programs. Here is a taste of what else we’ve been up to since then….
Jackie Du is a School, Youth and Family Programs Fellow. Her Guided Gallery Visits focuses on liberation through self-empowerment. and has an upcoming School Partnership with Kindergarten at PS 104. In Family Programs Jackie works with Meet the Museum for ages 2-3, Family Art Magic for ages 4-6, and Creativity Lab: a free with admission monthly program for visitors all ages. Jackie also assists the Museum Apprentice Program for high school students who are training to teach summer camp tours. Her research is focusing on students’ deep thinking and curiosity during GGVs.
Midrene Lamy is a School, Youth and Family Programs Fellow. She works with the Teen Night Planning Committee, a group of teens hired to create public programs for teen audiences. Midrene is currently teaching a drawing animation class for 8-10 year olds in the Gallery/Studio Program, called Drawing Movement. Another component of her fellowship are Guided Gallery Visits for visiting school groups and the PS154 school partnership. Lastly, she’s currently working on a research project centered on the experience of black self-guided visitors.
Sarah Chavarria is a School, Youth, and Family Programs Fellow. They developed and are teaching the curriculum for Build a Better Brooklyn, a 10-week Gallery/Studio course for artists ages 8-10. Completed a school partnership with Lyons Community School where they led students and trained them on how to use Visual Thinking Strategies. Sarah also conducts lessons for K–12 school groups in the galleries. As well as teach and co-program multigenerational art-making activities for monthly First Saturday Hands-on Art program. Sarah is researching the empowerment of young women of color in the museum through teen programs.
Camilo Godoy is an Adult and Public Programs Fellow. He teaches Guided Gallery Visits to K-12 school groups that use movement based activities and theater games to engage students with the museum’s exhibitions. He assists in the coordination of Public Programs including the museum’s favorite night: Target First Saturday, as well as Brooklyn Talks, Artists’ Eye, Art of Yoga, and the museum’s partnerships with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. For his research project he is occupied with thinking about the impact of movement based pedagogy in museum education. Follow him on Instagram @camilogodoy
Haley Graham is a Public Programs Fellow. Along with teaching gallery lessons to general ed, integrated co-teaching (ICT), and self-contained K-12 school groups, Haley also plans and develops public programs that are geared toward our adult audiences, with a focus on Thursday nights. She coordinates regular programs like Brooklyn Talks, Art History Happy Hour, and our monthly Salsa Party, along with special programs such as Defending Immigrant Rights: A Brooklyn Call to Action and Brooklyn Comedy Marathon: Fierce, Funny, and Feminist. Haley is an advocate for accessibility initiatives within Brooklyn Museum’s public programs.
Chris Moyer is a Public Programs Fellow from New Jersey.  On Wednesdays through Fridays you’ll see him frolicking throughout the Museum, aka leading K-12 school groups leading guided gallery visits. On Saturdays Chris hosts First Saturday programs as well as a the monthly “Artist’s Eye” series in which contemporary artists share personal insights into special exhibitions. At the Museum, his passions are grounded in questions of power and access to space, and he advocates for museums as sites of community agency. @masahikokun on Instagram.
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DAY ONE
Directed by Lori Miller
Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.
DAY ONE follows a group of teenage refugees from war-torn countries who are enrolled at a unique public school for refugees and immigrants-only in St. Louis, MO, where they are guided through an inspirational program of education, healing and trauma intervention by devoted educators, some of whom have chosen to relocate to the inner city to support their students.
Over the course of a year, we watch the kids progress through layers of grief and loss as they attend school, forge new friendships, and prepare to be mainstreamed into local public high schools. Their triumphs and tribulations all unfold with St. Louis as the backdrop: a rust-belt city that has taken the bold step of welcoming immigrants as a solution for their growing socio-economic problems.
DVD / 2019 / (Grades 6-12, College, Adults) / 82 minutes
KOSHIEN: JAPAN'S FIELD OF DREAMS
Director: Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Baseball is life for the die-hard competitors in the 100th annual Koshien, Japan's wildly popular national high school baseball championship, whose alumni include U.S. baseball star Shohei Ohtani and former Yankee Hideki Matsui. But for Coach Mizutani and his players, cleaning the grounds and greeting their guests are equally important as honing their baseball skills. In director Ema Ryan Yamazaki's dramatic and intimate journey to the heart of the Japanese national character, will those acts add up to victory or prove a relic of the past?
DVD (English, Japanese, With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 94 minutes
LET THEM EAT DIRT: THE HUNT FOR OUR KIDS' MISSING MICROBES
Directed by Rivkah Beth Medow, Brad Marshland
Looks at the role microbes play in the development, physical and mental health of our children, and argues that good health begins with kids playing in the dirt.
Allergies, obesity, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune and intestinal disorders are all on the rise, with the incidence of some diseases doubling every ten years. New research points to changes in the ecosystem of microbes that live on and inside every one of us -- our microbiomes -- as a major cause. But how could one's gut microbes increase the odds of developing conditions as radically different as asthma and diabetes?
Hosted by Good Morning America's Becky Worley, and based on the book of the same name by B. Brett Finlay, PhD and Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD, LET THEM EAT DIRT features families, doctors, and researchers who are sleuthing out what's harming our microbes -- and what we can do to reverse this dangerous trend.
DVD / 2019 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adults) / 58 minutes
MONTESSORI: LET THE CHILD BE THE GUIDE
Director: Alexandre Mourot
"Education should not limit itself to seeking new methods for a mostly arid transmission of knowledge: its aim must be to give the necessary aid to human development." - Maria Montessori
Inherited from Maria Montessori in 1907, the Montessori Method is a child-centered educational philosophy that celebrates and nurtures each child's desire to learn - an approach valuing the human spirit and full development: physical, social, emotional and cognitive. The Montessori Method is increasing in popularity both in the U.S. and abroad.
Curious to see how the Method works first hand, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6) and observes. He meets happy children, free to move around, working alone or in small groups. Some read, others make bread, do divisions, laugh or sleep. The teacher remains discreet. Children guide the filmmaker through the whole school year, helping him understand the magic of their autonomy and self-esteem - the seeds of a new society of peace and freedom, which Maria Montessori dedicated her life work to.
DVD (English & French w/English subtitles) / 2018 / 100 minutes
EARTH SEASONED, GAPYEAR
Directed by Molly Kreuzman
Diagnosed with learning difficulties, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a "gap year" living semi-primitively with four other young women in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Earth Seasoned...#GapYear is the inspiring story of five young urban women who spend a gap year between high school and college living semi-primitively in a remote mountainside wilderness in Oregon. Told mainly through the story of Tori Davis, a teenager with learning difficulties, the film chronicles the group's four seasons in the woods as part of the Caretaker nature program. As the seasons succeed, the group has to adapt to what the wilderness provides and to what it withholds.
Through lyrical live action footage and smartly paced animation, the film reveals how separately and together the girls learn ancient skills of craftsmanship and teamwork and forge deep powers of resilience and self-reliance. Earth Seasoned has essential messages about talent, compassion and community and about the real conditions for human flourishing.
DVD / 2017 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 75 minutes
G IS FOR GUN: THE ARMING OF TEACHERS IN AMERICA
Directed by Kate Way, Julie Akeret
Explores both sides of the highly controversial trend of arming teachers and staff in America's K-12 schools.
G IS FOR GUN explores the highly controversial trend of armed faculty and staff in K-12 schools. Only five years ago this practice was practically unheard of, but since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, it has spread to as many as a dozen states. Often without public knowledge, there are teachers, administrators, custodians, nurses, and bus drivers carrying guns in America's schools.
G IS FOR GUN documents a growing program in Ohio that is training school staff to respond to active shooter situations with guns, and follows the story of one Ohio community divided over arming its teachers.
DVD / 2017 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adults) / 27 minutes
STILL WATERS
Directed by Peter Gordon
In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Hispanic kids reading, creative writing and Latin.
A remarkable one-room school in Brooklyn is facing a tough year. It's the run up to the US presidential election and anti-Latino rhetoric is ramped up--an extra source of tension for a hard-pressed Hispanic community already threatened by gentrification and eviction.
The school, Still Waters in a Storm, is the creation of Yale grad Stephen Haff. A passionate critic of mainstream education, he believes in the joy of learning without tests and the innate creativity of children and insists that the school is free. It survives precariously on the thinnest of shoestrings.
When regular school finishes, Still Waters starts working. Stephen and his group of children explore, with the help of illustrious guest writers like twice Booker Prizewinner Peter Carey, the power of storytelling, creativity and community. And along the way they discuss Donald Trump and gentrification with humor and passion.
Filmed over a year STILL WATERS follows this compelling man, his philosophy, the spirit of the children who attend, and the dreams and fears of their immigrant Hispanic community.
DVD / 2017 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 79 minutes
CULTIVATING KIDS
Directed by Melissa Young, Mark Dworkin
On South Whidbey Island, WA, a school farm shows that a garden can be a valuable addition to the curriculum while encouraging a healthy diet.
On South Whidbey Island in the state of Washington, a school farm involves children from kindergarten through high school in every phase of raising organic vegetables as part of their school experience. Supported by local non-profits, community volunteers, and the school district, it shows that a garden can be a valuable addition to a school curriculum, while encouraging children to eat healthy food. The school farm sells local, organic produce to the school cafeterias and also supplies the local food bank and community nutrition programs with fresh organic produce throughout the growing season.
DVD / 2016 / (Grades 4-12, College, Adults) / 23 minutes
DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST
Directed by Samantha Grant
A group of girls in a remote forest in Paraguay are transformed at an experimental high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and build a future for themselves.
DAUGHTERS of the FOREST tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and forge a better future for themselves.
Set in the untamed wilds of the Mbaracayu Reserve in rural Paraguay, this intimate verite documentary offers a rare glimpse of a disappearing world where timid girls grow into brave young women even as they are transformed by their unlikely friendships with one another. Filmed over the course of five years, we follow the girls from their humble homes in indigenous villages through the year after their graduation to see exactly how their revolutionary education has and will continue to impact their future lives.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2016 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 56 minutes
MISS KIET'S CHILDREN
By Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
Kiet Engels is the kind of teacher one wishes every schoolchild could have. She is strict but never harsh. She is loving but never soft. Her patience in endless.
Many of Miss Kiet's pupils are refugees who have just arrived in Holland. Everything is new and confusing. Some are quarrelsome and headstrong. But Miss Kiet's firm but loving hand brings calm and awakens interest. She not only teaches her pupils to read and write Dutch, but also helps them learn to solve problems together and respect one another. Slowly the children gain skills and confidence.
Haya is at first impetuous, yet fearful. Little by little, Miss Kiet helps her to find her friendly side. Leanne is quiet and lonely. But after a few months she able to tell everyone, in Dutch, that she loves Branche. Jorj has trouble sleeping and is unruly. His little brother Maksim has terrible nightmares. Miss Kiet's tenacity helps Jorj discover that learning can be worthwhile and even fun.
By observation alone, without interviews or voice-over, the film focuses on four refugee children of different nationalities. Pursuing their perspective, the camera follows at close hand their struggles to learn a new language, their fights, their friendships and their first loves.
By the end of the documentary, an affectionate community has grown-the fruit of a teacher's patience and dedication. A film of many touching moments, some of them hilarious, MISS KIET'S CHILDREN chronicles changes that are small yet at the same time immense.
DVD (English, Dutch, Color, With English Subtitles) / 2016 / 113 minutes
EAST OF SALINAS
Directed by Laura Pacheco, Jackie Mow
Jose Anzaldo is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.
EAST OF SALINAS begins with 3rd grader Jose Anzaldo telling us what he wants to be when he grows up. His parents work from sun up to sun down in the heart of California's "Steinbeck Country," the Salinas Valley. With little support available at home, Jose often turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos, once a migrant farm kid himself. In fourth grade his teacher told him if he worked hard he could have a different life. Oscar won a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. The day he earned his degree, he bought a car and drove home to the fields. He's been teaching ever since.
Jose is Oscar's most gifted student. But how do you teach students like Jose who have no place to do their homework? How do you teach a kid who moves every few months? This is what Oscar is up against every day. Oscar not only teaches his students reading, math and science, he gives them access to a world beyond their reach.
But Jose was born in Mexico--and he's on the cusp of understanding the implications of that. As we watch this play out over three years, we begin to understand the cruelty of circumstance--for Jose and the many millions of undocumented kids like him.
EAST OF SALINAS asks, What is lost when kids like Jose are denied opportunities?
DVD / 2015 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 53 minutes
DIE BEFORE BLOSSOM
By Ariani Djalal
Almost 70 years after independence and 10 years after the installation of the first democratically elected president, the educational system in Indonesia is increasingly being influenced by Islamic values. This observational documentary follows two girls and their families during a crucial period in their school careers: their last year at public elementary school in the city of Jogyakarta in central Java.
Kiki and Dila are modern city girls from a middle-class background: they like to listen to pop music, are very interested in their appearance and giggle about girl stuff. At school, all the children wear uniforms, everyone prays together, the national anthem is sung and the girls learn how to behave now that they are approaching puberty. Although Islam isn't a state religion, its influence on the once secular school system is growing. The educational system is underpinned by three moral principles: piety, patriotism and discipline.
The strictness of the school regime doesn't seem so bad-for example, Kiki is able to talk her way out of studying the Koran. But once the final exams start to loom, things suddenly get very serious, both for the girls and for their parents. A lot is riding on their exam results, for the popular schools in the city only take those children who get the highest scores.
DVD (Color) / 2014 / 89 minutes
LUNCH LOVE COMMUNITY
Directed by Helen De Michiel
Passion, creative energy and persistence come together when Berkeley advocates and educators tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and in the neighborhoods.
How are citizens transforming local food systems? How are innovators changing the way children eat in schools? How do we talk about culture, identity and responsibility through the lens of food and health?
LUNCH LOVE COMMUNITY is a beautiful and engaging story of how a diverse group of pioneering parents and food advocates came together to tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and neighborhoods of Berkeley, CA.
Through a mosaic of twelve interconnecting short documentaries, the film explores food and education, children and health, and citizens making democratic change. This is a rich and multi-dimensional story of passion, creative energy, and idealism -- a project linking the ways we teach our children to eat and understand food to the traditional passing of powerful values from one generation to the next.
LUNCH LOVE COMMUNITY is divided into three thematic programs - Heart, Body, Mind - each containing four short films.
DVD ( Closed Captioned) / 2014 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 78 minutes
NATIONAL DIPLOMA
By Dieudo Hamadi
Joel loads a stack of boxes onto a hand truck and weaves his way through a crowded outdoor market in Kisangani, one of the largest cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An orphan who lives with his aunt, Joel doesn't want to be a courier forever. But if he is to have any hope of a brighter future, he must first pass the national exam-the key to better employment and a post-secondary education. And to take the exam, he needs money.
NATIONAL DIPLOMA follows Joel and a group of his classmates in the two months leading up to their taking the national exam. Things start off badly, when the high school principal walks into a class full of students preparing to take a mock exam and expels Joel and more than a dozen others for unpaid school fees. Undaunted, the students rent an unfinished house across the river. The floors are covered in debris, there is no furniture, and live wires snake down interior walls. But the teens hammer a blackboard into a brick wall, set a cookstove on the floor, and set about teaching each other algebra, philosophy, and the other subjects they will need to pass.
What makes this verite documentary exceptional is its ability to capture telling details: the sign above the principal's desk saying anything is possible with hard work, just before he expels students over fees; girls brushing each other's hair in the downtime between studying sessions; the ecstatic and intimate moments in church and visiting a faith healer, as the students seek any help they can get.
As the exam date approaches, the principal visits the students and implores them to return so he can pay the school's staff. Meanwhile, the young scholars have discovered that the key to passing the exam may not lie in studying, but in finding a trusted source who can leak them the answers.
Director Dieudo Hamadi grew up in Kisangani and was one of the half a million Congolese students who took the national exam each year. NATIONAL DIPLOMA is a closely observed film that offers no overt political commentary as it chronicles the hypocrisy, anxiety and distortion in a deeply colonial system.
DVD (Color) / 2014 / 92 minutes
SCHOOL OF BABEL
By Julie Bertuccelli
Welcome to a one-of-a-kind Paris education program for immigrant children from around the globe. In her feature documentary debut, director Julie Bertucelli (SINCE OTAR LEFT, THE TREE) follows one class of students ranging from 11 to 15 years of age as they begin life in a new land.
Hailing from countries across the globe including Ireland, Brazil, China, Ukraine, Tunisia, Venezuela, Guinea and Libya, many of the students at 'La Grange aux Belles,' a school in the diverse 10th district of Paris, are asylum seekers. They must learn French as they combat homesickness, juggle weighty familial responsibilities and recover from the trauma of previous lives of social and economic devastation.
Their teacher, Ms. Cervoni, must exercise as much patience and skill in instructing the students as in her interactions with their parents. As she guides them through a rigorous school year and attempts to prepare them for the transition to mainstream classes, she is a key negotiator in schoolyard conflicts and cultural clashes and navigating complicated dynamics both inside and outside the classroom.
DVD (Color) / 2013 / 89 minutes
SCHOOL'S OUT: LESSONS FROM A FOREST KINDERGARTEN
Directed by Lisa Molomot
A year in the life of a forest kindergarten in Switzerland where being outdoors and unstructured play are the main components.
No classroom for these kindergarteners. In Switzerland's Langnau am Albis, a suburb of Zurich, children 4 to 7 years of age, go to kindergarten in the woods every day, no matter what the weatherman says. This eye-opening film follows the forest kindergarten through the seasons of one school year and looks into the important question of what it is that children need at that age. There is laughter, beauty and amazement in the process of finding out.
The documentary is a combination of pure observational footage of the children at kindergarten in the forest, paired with interviews with parents, teachers, child development experts, and alumni, offering the viewers a genuine look into the forest kindergarten. There are also scenes of a traditional kindergarten in the United States to show the contrast between the different approaches.
DVD / 2013 / (Grades K-12, College, Adult) / 36 minutes
VALENTINE ROAD
Directed by Marta Cunningham
In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King at point blank range. Unraveling this tragedy, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as the aftermath.
On February 12, 2008, in an Oxnard, California, classroom, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King twice; Larry died of the wounds two days later. Larry (Leticia), a gender-variant youth of color, had liked to wear makeup and heels to school, and had publicly announced a crush on McInerney. For this reason, some of McInerney's defenders say the victim had "embarrassed" the shooter--and was therefore at least partly to blame for his own murder.
VALENTINE ROAD is about an outrageous crime and an even more outrageous defense of it, but the film goes much deeper than mere outrage. In the end, it's the story of two victims of homophobia. Larry was killed because of it, but Brandon's life was horribly twisted by it as well. And it's the story of a community's response--sometimes inspirational and sometimes cruel--to a terrible tragedy.
Filmmaker Marta Cunningham deftly looks beyond the sensational aspects of the murder, introducing us to Larry's friends, teachers and guardians, as well as Brandon's loved ones--both children had led difficult lives. In examining Brandon's prosecution and defense, the documentary poses difficult questions about punishing juveniles for serious crimes, while exposing society's pervasive and deadly intolerance of young people who don't conform to its gender "norms."
VALENTINE ROAD brilliantly focuses on how bigotry and prejudice are community-wide problems, rather than only the acts of individuals. It asks how schools can respond to the the full complexity of students' lives, and support students in crisis before tragedy strikes.
DVD / 2013 / (Grades 8-12, College, Adult) / 88 minutes
EARLY LIFE 2: IN THE MAYOR'S FOOTSTEPS - BRAZIL
Directed by Steve Bradshaw
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari visits Brazil to assess efforts to promote early childhood development there.
Every year, the Mina congregation in Sao Luis, Brazil, choose a child Emperor and Empress. Watching this year in the tropical heat is Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari. With the new Brazilian government emphasizing Early Child Development, Amilcar wants to know whether Latin America's richest country can follow the Mina example - or whether violence and poverty are still hindering children's chances of fulfilling their potential.
Outside Sao Luis, Amilcar finds the sons and daughters of shrimp fishermen learning ballet. In the hills beyond Fortaleza he learns how the playground can become a classroom. In the drug favelas of Rio, he sees the classroom turned into a playground for learning.
Mayor Amilcar also journeys to the Modernist capital, Brasilia, to discuss his trip with the Minister for Human Rights. Will he find enough exciting ideas to help the kids back home in Peru?
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 26 minutes
EARLY LIFE 2: IN THE MAYOR'S FOOTSTEPS - PERU
Directed by Steve Bradshaw
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari is trying to convert his native Peru to his optimistic philosophy of promoting early childhood development.
Warned that the child he's talked to will grow up poor and violent, Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari sighs. If only we could start young, he believes, we'd have a better chance of a peaceful and prosperous world. We need to keep young children away from violence, and develop their brains from birth.
But is that just the Mayor's dream? In this episode of Early Life, the Mayor tours his native Peru to discover how kids are being shortchanged: from the jungle city of Iquitos to the Andes mountains once wracked by political violence. Amilcar visits children who live in a floating favela - where he needs a police bodyguard - finds kids working city streets at midnight, and meets victims of a war over before they were born.
How much poverty, stress and violence can kids be exposed to without incurring real mental damage?
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 26 minutes
ORIGINAL MINDS
Directed by Tom Weidlinger
Inspirational film that shows a way to bring out the individual talents of five teenagers normally classified as learning disabled.
Wounded by the stigma of being in "special ed" the five teenage protagonists of ORIGINAL MINDS struggle to articulate how their brains work.
Kerrigan is a deep thinker, often seeing connections between disparate ideas and concepts, but when it comes to telling you what you've just said he hasn't a clue.
When Nee Nee writes her fingers have a hard time keeping up with her thoughts.
People often get annoyed with Nattie because she doesn't know when to stop teasing and kidding around.
Marshall spends a lot of time in the bathroom, where his parents can't bug him about homework. He says he wants to "turn over a new leaf" but he's lost nine of his last fifteen math assignments.
Members of Deandre's family tell him he is not college material. He's determined to prove them wrong.
Parents, teachers, friends, therapists, and coaches all weigh in, sometimes with conflicting views, but it's the kids who become the experts in this film, as they work intensively with the filmmaker to tell their stories and discover that they are smarter than they thought. Their narratives reveal the unique approach to learning that each must discern and claim as his or her own if they are to succeed in the world. ORIGINAL MINDS eschews the confusing thicket of labels for learning disorders and reveals universal truths about how we all acquire and process information.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes
PLAY AGAIN (NEW EDITION)
Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei
What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature? Six screen-addicted teens take their first wilderness adventure.
One generation from now most people in the U.S. will have spent more time in the virtual world than in nature. New media technologies have improved our lives in countless ways. Information now appears with a click. Overseas friends are part of our daily lives. And even grandma loves Wii.
But what are we missing when we are behind screens? And how will this impact our children, our society, and eventually, our planet?
At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, PLAY AGAIN explores the changing balance between the virtual and natural worlds. Is our connection to nature disappearing down the digital rabbit hole?
This emotionally moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the "average American child," spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure - no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality.
Through the voices of children and leading experts including journalist Richard Louv, sociologist Juliet Schor, environmental writer Bill McKibben, educators Diane Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, neuroscientist Gary Small, parks advocate Charles Jordan, and geneticist David Suzuki, PLAY AGAIN investigates the consequences of a childhood removed from nature and encourages action for a sustainable future.
DVD / 2010 / (Grades 6-12, College, Adult) / 80 minutes
EARLY LIFE: MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL
Three children prepare to enter primary school in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thailand's Festival of Water: Songkran. A chance for adults to behave like kids. And for some kids a last chance to misbehave before the first day of school. The third program in the Early Life series follows three children preparing to enter primary school in Chiang Mai, Thailand. But are their lives already set on different courses? Scientists suggest that how the brain develops in the first years of life may affect a child's ability to prosper at school.
Sita is looking forward to her first day, Best is wary, and Tha Na Korn doesn't even have a school to go to yet. Their dilemmas reflect those of Thailand as a whole: how should a country with its own traditions of childhood prepare their kids for a new, globalized society? Thailand is now developing an education policy to meet the needs of a globalized economy.
Child rights might have guaranteed Tha Na Korn local schooling. But many experts who say culture should guide early child development don't like talk of "child rights". They say it could lead to the West imposing its own views of childhood on the world.
Can Thailand achieve child rights without sacrificing its culture? Child rights will mean more kids like Tha Na Korn go to school. But Tha's school has a different language and culture. He could become "unrecognizable to his parents." Child rights and respect for culture need to be combined.
DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 25 minutes
EARLY LIFE: THE MAYOR'S DREAM
The Mayor's dream is simple: a better world because every child gets a better start.
What goes on inside the brains of babies-and how much are we shaped by the first few years of our lives? Scientists have new insights into how children think, and some claim that by not acting on these discoveries, lives are being wasted.
We visit the Andes where Mayor Amilcar Huanchuari believes that stimulating children's brains early on can make for a more prosperous-and less violent-society. We visit the labs of Boston, MA, where Harvard scientists are trying to determine whether science really is on the Mayor's side. We see how some Kenyan mums have realized that their traditional parenting ways have to change in today's world. And we talk to a young architect in Turkey who believes that her own life proves the Mayor's dream can be a reality.
"I have a dream," says Amilcar Huanchuari. "We know that poverty is a product of malnutrition, poor education and poor stimulation. And from this we believe that investment in education, health and nutrition is important, and we believe in the early stimulation of our children. We're convinced we should work with children from the earliest age and we're going to form a new society of children. We'll build a new generation of children. They'll be more successful and prosperous children and they'll contribute effectively towards a peaceful future for our country."
The Mayor's dream is simple: a better world because every child gets a better start. But does science support his dream? Across the world, evidence on both sides of the debate is mounting up.
DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 25 minutes
STORYTELLING CLASS, THE
Directed by John Paskievich and John Whiteway
An after-school storytelling project in a diverse, but divided, city school breaks cultural boundaries and creates community.
Located in Winnipeg's downtown core, Gordon Bell High School is probably the most culturally varied school in the city, with 58 different languages spoken by the student body. Many students are children who have arrived as refugees from various war torn areas of the world.
In an effort to build bridges of friendship and belonging across cultures and histories, teacher Marc Kuly initiated an after-school storytelling project whereby the immigrant students would share stories with their Canadian peers.
The catalyst for this cross-cultural interaction was the students' reading of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, a memoir of Beah's horrific time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war.
These voluntary after-school meetings take dramatic turns and reach their climax when Ishmael Beah and professional storyteller Laura Simms travel from New York to work with them. With their help the students learn to listen to each other and find the commonality that so long eluded them.
DVD / 2009 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 59 minutes
LIFE 5: SCHOOL'S OUT!
Directed by Dick Bower
The private school option in a Lagos shantytown.
Makoko is a shantytown on the edge of Lagos, the largest city in West Africa. Space is precious, so Makoko stretches out into the lagoon, where many of the houses are built on stilts. Average income in Makoko is about fifty dollars a month. In Nigeria ninety per cent of people live on less than two dollars a day. According to UNICEF, less than half the children of primary school age get an education, with school fees as high as ten dollars. However, new research reveals that parents here are prepared to pay to get their children educated.
The people of Makoko appear to have a choice: Children can go to the free state school, or they can pay at one of a growing number of small, private schools that have opened there. Research into how and why these private schools have emerged in such unlikely circumstances has been organized by a team from the University of Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Their research reveals that in communities like Makoko, parents are voting with their feet. They think the state system has failed, and a new and interesting grass roots movement in education seems to be the result.
DVD (Color) / 2005 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 23 minutes
LIFE 4: EDUCATING YAPRAK
Turkey's ambitious campaign to reduce poverty includes convincing reluctant parents to send their daughters to school.
At the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Turkey is a country with a large, young population. But literacy rates have traditionally lagged behind neighboring Greece and Bulgaria. With its sights firmly set on future EU membership, Turkey has identified education as key to reducing poverty. So Turkey has embarked on an ambitious campaign, targeting those most deprived of education-young teenage girls-especially from the poor rural areas. Life visits Turkey's eastern Province of Van and meets 13-year-old Yaprak, just one of the many targeted by this massive education drive. She, for one, is sure of the benefits. "I want to study until the end. I want to finish university. I want to have a job."
DVD (Color) / 2004 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 26 minutes
LIFE: EDUCATING LUCIA
The odds are against girls getting an education in Zimbabwe and throughout much of Africa.
Twelve-year old Lucia's dream is to be able to graduate to secondary school, and stay there-to finish the 12th grade and go on to train as a pilot. Her older sister Barita wants to do computer studies. And Portia, the youngest in the family, wants to be a dressmaker.
But tragically for these three sisters from one of Zimbabwe's large scale commercial farms, in tobacco country 50 miles outside Harare, they're more likely to end up -- as their mothers before them -- with no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on the farm. The three sisters are AIDS orphans being brought up by their grandmother. She can only afford school fees for one girl, Lucia, to attend primary school.
Across Africa, the odds are dramatically against girls getting an education. And even if they do attend primary school, they're often withdrawn before they finish -- to work as unpaid laborers for their extended family, to be married off or to have children. Only one in four school age girls in Burkina Faso ever attends school.
Across the continent only 24 percent of girls actually complete primary school, compared to 65-70% for boys. As Harry Sawyer, Minister for Education in Ghana, wrote in a recent UNICEF report, the obstacles to girls' education are the same as those that undermine economic and social development everywhere "but in the end, all the reasons add up to one: insufficient will."
DVD (Color) / 2000 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 24 minutes
SMALL WONDERS
Director: Allan Miller
This inspirational documentary deservedly earned a 1995 Academy Award nomination. Divorced mother Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras taught music in the New York City school system until the budget ax eliminated her job. Dedicated to music and her students, she established a foundation and raised money to create her own violin program in three East Harlem schools. The film follows Guaspari-Tzavaras as she lugs her equipment from school to school, teaching students who range from young beginners to high-school students. The students' recitals include performing for an auditorium full of parents, playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" before a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, and finally making a Carnegie Hall appearance accompanied by world renown violinists Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman.
DVD / 1995 / 77 minutes
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