Angel Augustine Teacher Feature March 2019
Angel Augustine, intervention teacher and REACH program lead at George Washington Carver High School, is the third Teacher Feature of the 2018-2019 school year.
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Kelsey Lambrecht set to found Collegiate Baton Rouge
Kelsey Lambrecht (GNO ’09) is the founding School Leader for Collegiate Baton Rouge. As a special education teacher and Director of Intervention, Kelsey helped to found several special programs for Colle…
Collegiate Academies Launches Scholarship Fund
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Featured Teacher Spotlight: Samara Levy, Sci Academy
At our Data Day in January, Samara Levy, Sci Academy’s Algebra I Teacher, received the distinction of Featured Teacher. Today, we invite you to get to know Samara in more detail, learning about how she a…
Developing Strong School Leaders for the Future: Inside CA’s School Leader Fellowship
On a daily basis, we are confronted with the need for schools like ours to exist for hundreds of thousands of kids across the country. In America, the income gap continues to determine life outcomes, and…
Setting Big Goals For Scholars With Disabilities: Laying the Groundwork for High-Quality Programs
Like any successful endeavor, defining the goal at the start of a new program is critical to achieving success in the end. At Collegiate Academies, this philosophy holds true for planning Intervention an…
Reflections on Honduras: Experiences Strengthen Relationships with Scholars
I stepped onto the first bus, ready to greet the crowd of students with a warm smile and to welcome them back from their holiday break. I was bundled up in layers in an attempt to keep out the cold. Th…
Featured Teacher Spotlight: Anthony McElligott, Sci Academy
A few weeks ago, we revealed the second Teacher Feature of the school year. This Teacher Feature was particularly notable because it represented the first time in Collegiate Academies history that a teac…
The Season for Gratitude
Our scholars (really, all high school kids) need intense academic preparation to be college-ready. From phonics and pre-Algebra to AP Literature and Calculus, the intellectual work of moving from middle…
Featured Teacher Spotlight: Learn from Jane Shiu
Last week, we shared Part 1 of our Featured Teacher Spotlight: a Q&A with Jane Shiu that explores Jane’s background and her time at Sci Academy. This week, we dig deeper into our conversation with Jane t…
Featured Teacher Spotlight: Get to Know Jane Shiu
Following the reveal of our Teacher Feature each Data Day, we’ll be posting interviews with each of our featured teachers so that you can get to know more about them: what led them to teaching, the techn…
What We Can Learn From Singapore
In the past several decades, Singapore has rapidly climbed up the international education totem pole. According to the George Lucas Educational Foundation, Singapore’s schools have developed a reputation…
Beating the Summer Slide: How CA Scholars Spent Their Summer
On Collegiate Academies’ three campuses, the new school year has officially begun: the hallways smell of fresh paint, scholars are eagerly cracking the spines of new books, and the skillful drumming of t…
Why Are We Here? Introducing the Collegiate Academies Blog
Welcome to the Collegiate Academies blog, your one-stop shop for news, announcements, updates, and ideas from the Collegiate Academies community. Here, you’ll find stories about the milestones that are m…
Growth Mindset’ Gaining Traction as School Improvement Strategy By Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week
It’s one thing to say all students can learn, but making them believe it—and do it—can require a 180-degree shift in students’ and teachers’ sense of themselves and of one another.
While expressions lik…