Building a Strong School Culture—Profiles of Leaders of Color
Three-part series looks at how being a person of color affected the ways in which successful charter school leaders built schools where students, families, and staff learn, grow, and thrive.
Profiles of Leaders of Color: Building an Effective Staff
How has being a person of color affected the ways in which successful charter school leaders built schools where students, families, and staff learn, grow, and thrive? In this first of a three-part series, produced in partnership with National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Public Impact profiled three such leaders about how they trained teachers in empathy to fight biases, developed a leader training program, and founded an alliance to develop future charter school leaders of color.
Profiles of Leaders of Color: Engaging Families
In this second of a three-part series examining how being a person of color affects the ways in which successful charter school leaders build schools where students, families, and staff learn, grow, and thrive, Public Impact profiled three leaders who involved parents in creating a more inviting campus, reset expectations for parental involvement, and adjusted systems and structures to make it easier to engage families. This series was produced in partnership with National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Profiles of Leaders of Color: Building a Strong School Culture
In partnership with National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Public Impact produced a three-part series looking at how being a person of color affected the ways in which successful charter school leaders built schools where students, families, and staff learn, grow, and thrive. This third in the series profiles two such leaders who use language to bring together students from diverse backgrounds and communities, and provide students with opportunities to follow their dreams by learning to code, traveling, and being exposed to a wide array of extracurricular activities.
Better Together
Better Together—Charter School Champions and Parent Advocates
This call to action explains why partnerships to better support students with disabilities are needed, the forms they might take, and how to get started.
Better Together: Why Charter School Champions & Parent Advocates Should Partner to Better Support Students with Disabilities
While the charter sector has much to celebrate, the country can do more to put great schools—including excellent charters—within reach for our most vulnerable students. Students with disabilities represent one such group. The best solutions start by partnering with the parent groups that advocate for students with disabilities, and have been doing so for decades. As partners, charter school champions and organizations working with parents of children with disabilities can collectively improve outcomes for students with disabilities, create better school options for them, and advocate for better policies. This call to action for charter champions to launch and deepen their partnerships with parent advocates explains how they are better together—why such partnerships are needed, the forms they might take from partnerships highlighted in Washington, DC, New York City, and Los Angeles, and how to get started.
Charter School Facility Incubators
Charter School Facility Incubators—An Innovative Approach to Charter School Facilities
This case study provides an in-depth look at the design and operations of Building Pathways, a charter facility incubator in Washington D.C.
