May 2, 2010

Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate Headlined as Example of Charter School Success

Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate were featured as examples of successful “top-flight” charter schools in a front page article in the Sunday New York Times.

Read the full article here.

April 20, 2010

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Visits Kings Collegiate!

Jim Cramer, host of  CNBC’s “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” visited Kings Collegiate Charter School, a member of Uncommon Schools. He taught Kings’ 7th graders a guest lesson on the stock market.

Watch him discuss his experience here.

April 18, 2010

Alternate Path for Teachers Gains Ground

Dan Cosgrove, a 4th grade teacher at Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant, was featured in a New York Times article about alternative paths to teacher certification.

Read the full article here.

April 6, 2010

Charter Schools Enlist Their Own as Recruitment Begins

Students and staff members from Uncommon Schools were featured on New York One spreading the word about spots for new 5th graders throughout their community.

View the video here.

March 7, 2010

Building a Better Teacher

Leadership Prep Brownsville Charter School is a member of Uncommon Schools. Uncommon Schools’ Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices was just published in book form and featured in an article in The New York  Times Magazine on efforts to enhance teacher effectiveness.

Read the full New York Times article here.

View the Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices here.