“Surprise, Arizona— Imagine Prep at Surprise was designated a Model ‘Mix It Up Day’ school by the Southern Poverty Law Center for efforts to foster respect and understanding among its students and throughout its campus during the 2010-11 school year. Imagine Prep at Surprise was specifically recognized for creating a daylong program that challenged students to step out of their …
What Do Teenagers Know About Digital Preservation? Actually, More Than You Think…
“It’s many adults’ worst nightmare: how to entertain and (try to) educate thirty 8th graders for an hour? Especially when the subject matter is as potentially complex as how to preserve digital information. Well, the first thing to do is to try and think like the teenagers who visited the Library on May 13, 2011 from the Imagine Schools South …
Creating great schools
Kathy Kiely ’77’s “Schoolhouses rock” (cover story, March 2) highlights the impressive achievements of numerous Princeton alumni dedicated to changing education. Many of us aren’t Waiting for Superman. In 2004, my husband and I founded Imagine Schools, a national operator of public charter schools, to bring educational choice to families who otherwise would be trapped in failing zoned schools. In …
Imagine school’s groundbreaking
Imagine schools at Coolidge recently celebrated the official ground breaking of the new school set to be completed in August. In attendance from left, Tom Stackhouse, developer; Dennis Bakke, co-founder; Darrin Anderson, Imagine Prep principal; Monte Lange. regional director; Eileen Bakke, co-founder; Nancy Hall, regional vice president. See picture posted on June 1, 2011 by TriValley Central.com
Year-round plan OK’d for charter
“FORT WAYNE – Starting next school year, Imagine Schools on Broadway will switch to a year-round school calendar. The calendar, known in education circles as a balanced calendar, will shorten summer vacation but provide more breaks throughout the year for the roughly 420 students in kindergarten through fifth grade who attend the local charter school. In December, the Imagine on …
Widespread Declines in 3rd Grade FCAT, With 2 Exceptions–Rymfire and Imagine
“Except for Rymfire Elementary and Imagine School, Flagler County schools’ 3rd grade scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed widespread and in some cases dramatic declines in reading and math. A silver lining: the district managed to keep its average passing rate of 78 in reading above the state’s 72, though Florida’s average, among the lowest in the nation, …
Charter school to focus on entrepreneurship
“Carlow University philosophy professor Jim Carmine knew all along that he wanted critical thinking to be a key component of his charter school’s curriculum. He just wasn’t quite sure how to go about implementing it. ‘There had to be a way that kids not just learned stuff in the classroom, but applied it,’ Mr. Carmine said. So he took his …
Imagine School of Imperial Valley doing well at the end of year one
“Dances and songs, poems and plays were just part of pomp during the “Celebrating Our Inaugural Year” programs for El Centro’s Imagine School of Imperial Valley. The public charter school, which opened in August, held a duo of programs during its grand opening Monday. Imagine’s inaugural year has been challenging yet satisfying, said Imagine School Principal Susan Castro. ‘It …