:: KIPP: JOURNEY ACADEMY ::

New KIPP School Open in the Linden Community: ENROLL TODAY!
KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) opened its doors this summer to address the need for high quality schools of choice. The free, open enrollment public school provides its students with a high quality college preparatory education. KIPP Journey Academy will empower students with the academic skills, character traits, and intellectual habits to succeed to and through college.

School Description At KIPP Journey Academy there are no short cuts, only hard work and high expectations. Students at KIPP Journey Academy attend school for three weeks in the summer. During the regular school year, they attend school from 7:25 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and two Saturdays each month. Teachers are available each night for homework help through cells phones and make frequent home visits. Along with rigorous instruction in core subjects students will develop their character and gain skills in philosophy, fine arts, and athletics.

Leadership Miss Hannah Powell graduated from Wittenberg University with a B.A. in Communication and was selected to join Teach for America thereafter. As a Teach for America corps member in Philadelphia, Miss Powell taught sixth and seventh grade, was awarded an IT learning grant, collaborated with a professor from the University of Pennsylvania to implement a grant funded Community Arts partnership, was named “Staff Member of the Month” twice by faculty peers, and served on the Teach for America Recruitment and Communication committees. Her students achieved the school’s highest rate of proficiency on the State Test in Reading and Writing for the two years she taught, with 87% scoring Proficient or Higher in Reading and 90% scoring proficient or higher in Writing.

While teaching in Philadelphia, Miss Powell also received her MS in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Saint Joseph’s University. Following her Teach for America commitment, Miss Powell worked as the Director of Education Services at an Ohio-based charter management organization. In this role, Hannah led the reconstitution efforts of the first reconstituted charter school in the state of Ohio. In the first year, reading levels increased by an average of 2.1 Reading Levels, the school moved up one ranking in the State Accountability System and meet/exceeded state growth expectations in language arts and math, according to new Ohio’s new longitudinal growth measure. Miss Powell is also a trainer specializing in analyzing Ohio’s longitudinal growth model and a member of the first cohort of STEM Fellows in the State.

To contact Miss Powell, please call 614-517-0949 or email hannah.powell@kipp.org.

KIPP National Two idealistic teachers, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, started KIPP in 1994 in Houston, TX. In 1995, Levin founded KIPP Academy New York in the south Bronx. KIPP has grown to a national network of 57 public schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia serving over 14,000 students. KIPP schools have been widely recognized for narrowing the achievement gap in public education, and putting underserved students on the path to college.Nationally, over 80 percent of KIPP alumni have matriculated to college in communities where less than 25 percent report having plans to do so.

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2008 CALENDAR

November 14
Board Meeting, 11:30, KIPP Journey Academy

November 21-28: No School

December 19
Board Meeting, 11:30, KIPP Journey Academy

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