Excellent Public Education — at Scale. It Can Be Done.
Earlier this week, Success Academy launched the Success Academy Education Institute, a wide-ranging, free online platform that gives thousands of educators around the country — and the world! — unprecedented access to our curriculum and school design.
To start, we are sharing our elementary school THINK literacy curriculum, because reading is the foundation of all learning. I wrote at length about why the Ed Institute is so important in a Huffington Post article on Wednesday, but here’s the short version: Over the past eleven years we have built a network of 41 high-performing schools serving 14,000 mostly low-income students of color. In that time, we’ve figured out what really works and what can be scaled in education, and now we are sharing it with the world — in the first 24 hours we had educators from 15 other countries and 42 states register. Our dual mission is to build world-class public schools in New York City, but also to reimagine public education for all children. The Ed Institute is a major step forward for Success Academy to execute on that mission.
Whether you are a veteran educator, a new graduate excited about the power of education to transform young lives, or just curious about what happens every day in hundreds of Success Academy classrooms, I hope you’ll take some time to see the Ed Institute for yourself.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH TEACHER TESOL/TEFL/ESL
7 年Education is my passion,keep your head up and spark our children's brain.
Principal at LIV School
7 年Following on the amazing reflection...it would be very interesting to see in the South African context how this applies. Further more are areas and aspects not covered in this survey, i suppose the High School and outcome of the learners' performance as well as to the ratio of the survey vs the total number of learners nationwide and from different backgrounds- African context0
Ph.D. in Plant sciences
7 年very nice
Writer/Essayist/Blogger/Technologist/Electronics/Software
7 年I question the accomplishments of Success Academy. I wrote a longer piece on my LinkedIn profile page. I will put a shortened version here: They have 41 schools and all are Elementary Schools. Some say K-1, K-2, etc., but not K-5. They call 5th grade Middle school. This is not so around here. They have only one high school. They do not tout how many go to college and how many graduate. Their students amount to about 5% of NYC's students. Nationwide their 14,000 students out of millions, amount to a drop in the ocean. This is what they call to scale? They do do well on State tests but again for Elementary schools this is not so spectacular. Most kids should do well in K-5 (or K-6), in Elementary schools. They have no stats for how many have gone through their system from Kindergarten through high school and on into college. They have not been around long enough long enough to have that track record. That would take at least 13-17 years. Also, there appears to be only one High School and no Middle Schools.
Deputy Head Teacher- Habib Public School & College Section
7 年nice one