Superintendent's Blog
This week started out with a great student visit to Notre Dame and Saint Mary's for four of our superstars attending our GEO Next Generation High School in Indianapolis.
I was in Gary, Indiana this week visiting with our 4th graders and asked, "How many of you want to go to college?" The picture at the top shows you the response I received. Looks like they all do. And, I'm betting everyone will go to college. And, I'm betting everyone will go to college BEFORE graduating from our high school.
21st Century Academy has been awarded a 2024 American Water Charitable Foundation Workforce Readiness Grant for $25,000.
Should high schools prepare students for college or careers? That seems to be the big question among ed reformers these days. Why not do both? We do!
In 2002, GEO didn't start a charter school simply to have a school. We set out to break from tradition. Our original goal was simple--help students get into better performing schools. Today, our goals include helping students earn real college degrees and career certifications and experience while in high school.
GEO Next Generation High School is making strides in enhancing post-secondary opportunities for its students through an expanded dual enrollment and associate degree program, addressing Louisiana’s educational challenges head-on.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Othiniel Mahone, the principal at GEO Academies 21st Century School in Gary, Indiana, joins Mike and David to discuss effective strategies for implementing and enforcing an “away for the day” school cellphone policy.
The new school year is off to the races this week at all GEO Academy Network schools. Our Indianapolis and Gary schools started Monday and all our Baton Rouge area schools started today.
When Katherine Bethley’s daughter was in first grade at a traditional public school, she sensed something was amiss. She struggled with assignments and seemed to lag behind other students academically. Bethley suspected her daughter may have dyslexia and tried to have her screened for the condition, but between bureaucratic red tape and the disarray caused by the Covid pandemic, it was a challenge to arrange such testing.
About seven in ten (72 percent) high school teachers say that students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their classroom. Parents feel less strongly, as the majority (56 percent) say that students should sometimes be allowed to use their cellphones in school.