Northwestern High honors a graduate’s acts of bravery in war
Ron Scott remembers Dwight Johnson as the kid nobody wanted to pick for football.Northwestern Digital
The Northwestern Digital blog-site has been created to act as a repository for information, communications, insights, innovation and creativity regarding the collaborative development of programs to enrich and empower the young people of Northwestern High School and the Detroit Community that surrounds it.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Northwestern High School Alumni HONORS Vietnam Veteran Congressional Medal of Honor Hero Dwight Johnson
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
21st Century Digital Learning Environments (Just WHAT the Doctor Ordered)
Students, teachers brace for new reality
By CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY and LORI HIGGINS FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITERS
When the school buses roll this morning, it will be the beginning of a crucial year for Michigan because stringent, systemic changes are headed to all 800 school districts and charter schools.
Budget cuts cloud 1st day for students
New schools are opening in Detroit
By LORI HIGGINS and CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITERS
This school year is expected to bring the kind of change that marks the start of a new era — with widespread budget cuts that will be felt in the classroom and parents’ wallets, legislative changes that have teachers feeling demoralized, a more intense focus on the worst-performing schools and several new schools opening in Detroit.Monday, September 05, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Detroit Collegiate Prep
Detroit Collegiate Prep High School (DCPHS) is an exciting new, DPS college preparatory high school in Detroit opening for the 2011-12 school year with its inaugural 9th grade class of 162 students! A collaboration between DPS, Michigan Future and Diplomas Now, DCPHS partners with City Year Detroit, Communities in Schools of Detroit and utilizes John Hopkins University's (JHU’s) award winning “Talent Development” curriculum model. DCPHS is open to any student eligible for 9th grade and offers each of them a unique college preparatory high school environment, enriched with positive role models, mentoring and support services geared toward life success in college and beyond. Detroit Collegiate Prep will open for the 2011-2012 school year as a DPS "priority school," built on the “small high school” model, eventually enrolling approximately 500 total students in grades 9-12. It will be located at the newly renovated Northwestern High School building's east wing at 2200 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit 48208, complete with its own Detroit Collegiate Prep building entrance, principal and staff, classrooms, mentors, tutors and after school program. DCPHS offers students and their families:
We still have several 9th grade spaces left to enroll for our Inaugural 2011-2012 School Year – the high school graduating class of 2015!! If you will be a 9th grader this year or know of a student or family who would like more information on DCPHS, please have them call us at:
Piloted in Philadelphia, the Diplomas Now model that will shape Detroit Collegiate Prep is currently running in schools in Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Antonio, Chicago and Philadelphia, with commitments for expansion from additional districts this upcoming school year.
Diplomas Now Feltonville Full-Year Pilot Results
Also visit: www.cityyear.org/diplomasnow | ||
City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. In communities across the United States and through two international affiliates, these diverse young leaders help turn around high-need schools and get at-risk students back on track to graduation by working to improve their attendance, behavior and course performance. For more information, please visitcityyear.org. Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year has established programs in Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Columbia, SC; Columbus, OH; Denver; Detroit; Little Rock/North Little Rock; Los Angeles; Louisiana: Baton Rouge; Louisiana: New Orleans; Miami; Milwaukee; New Hampshire; New York; Greater Philadelphia; Rhode Island; San Antonio; San Jose/Silicon Valley; Seattle/King County; and Washington, D.C.; and international affiliates in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England. |
Monday, August 22, 2011
"Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace!" (Digital Learning Model)
Schools of Choice bill coming
Legislature likely to get proposal this week as foes from Detroit, suburbs gear for fight
By CECIL ANGEL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
An education reform package that includes mandatory Schools of Choice and cyber schools could be introduced in the state Legislature as early as Wednesday, the chairman of the state Senate Education Committee said.Monday, August 15, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Models our Practice (Real-World Learning by Doing!)
Sunday: August 14, 2011 12:00PM to 2:00PM (Channel #4 MSNBC A Stronger America: "Making the Grade")
Clickondetroit.com
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/28851709/index.html
Clickondetroit.com
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/28851709/index.html
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
WHEN is Less MORE?
ROBERTS OKS 10% PAY CUT AT DPS
Union contract change the 1st under new manager law
By CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER
A month after warning union workers that they would see a 10% wage cut next school year, Roy Roberts, the emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools, signed executive orders Friday that impose $81 million in wage concessions on workers starting in August.
Impasse cited in changes at DPS
Union plans to sue, says negotiation efforts lacking
By CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER
The state’s controversial emergency manager law is being used to impose cuts on Detroit Public Schools unions partly because of a negotiations impasse with workers, officials said Friday.Monday, July 25, 2011
The Good Old Days (Today), A 21st Century Job AND That GIANT SUCKING Sound! (Hummed to the soundtrack of The GOOD, The BAD and the Brutally UGLY!)
Michigan must become a land of opportunity
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