Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My students are a diverse group of learners coming together in three sections of a College Prep English course. They are like a colorful box of crayons, from their ethnic backgrounds to their sociol-economic status, from their language foundations to their personal beliefs, from their challenges to their accomplishments, and from their disabilities to their hopes and dreams. Being one of two "traditional" high schools on the Island of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay, we are often referred to as the "other" High School which locks us into a stereotype of misunderstanding. What I know about my students is that they are seekers of knowledge, apprentices of reading and writing in the classroom so they can read and write the world on their own terms. Together we will venture together into new cognitive spaces, exploring the future (im)perfect -- because one person's utopia is anther's dystopian nightmare. And life in the twenty-first century is both at the same time.
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My students are a diverse group of learners coming together in three sections of a College Prep English course. They are like a colorful box of crayons, from their ethnic backgrounds to their sociol-economic status, from their language foundations to their personal beliefs, from their challenges to their accomplishments, and from their disabilities to their hopes and dreams. Being one of two "traditional" high schools on the Island of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay, we are often referred to as the "other" High School which locks us into a stereotype of misunderstanding. What I know about my students is that they are seekers of knowledge, apprentices of reading and writing in the classroom so they can read and write the world on their own terms. Together we will venture together into new cognitive spaces, exploring the future (im)perfect -- because one person's utopia is anther's dystopian nightmare. And life in the twenty-first century is both at the same time.