Sorry if you’re looking for an education post… but I just loaded up two new sets of Jakob photos and wanted to share:
The Bennet Park Halloween Parade
Fall 2005 Photos (not all of them are new, but all the new ones are first.)
Fans of Jakob, enjoy…
A View From the Schoolhouse
Sorry if you’re looking for an education post… but I just loaded up two new sets of Jakob photos and wanted to share:
The Bennet Park Halloween Parade
Fall 2005 Photos (not all of them are new, but all the new ones are first.)
Fans of Jakob, enjoy…
One of the other partnership schools that the School District of Philadelphia is opening up next fall is the School of the Future, a high school created in partnership with Microsoft. The principal is Shirley Grover, and she’s an incredible partner as we both plan our schools. This weekend, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story about Shirley and the school. It’s worth a read, and the energy that is described in the article is real — both about School of the Future and Science Leadership Academy.
And Ellen Savitz’s quote about Shirley is completely accurate.
Ellen Savitz, the district’s chief development officer, said Grover was chosen for the job because of her "creativity and innovation, energy and willingness to do whatever it took to make the school amazing."
Shirley’s energy is infectious. Getting to sit down with her and plan together informs my beliefs on education. It’s a fun, good article, and it’s great to see her get the positive press — she deserves it.
This weekend is the High Schol Expo in Philadelphia, which means I’m manning the Science Leadership Academy booth all weekend long with help from two Beacon alumni who are now students at Drexel. Today, we were there from 2:00 until 8:00, talking to a few hundred parents about what we’re planning to do.
It’s exhausting and the barrage of questions that we’re not quite ready to answer yet gives me plenty of food for thought, but it’s exciting to get out there and talk to people about our plans and what we think we can be. It is events like that that remind me… powerfully… that September just isn’t very far away.