Parents as Partners
Parents as Partners - Community Conversation Notes – April 6, 2013
Boggs Blog
Possibility
Thank you to our friend and mentor, Jay Featherstone, professor of education emeritus at Michigan State University and, most recently, co-author of Transforming Teacher Education: Reflections from the Field. This poem made its debut on the first day of the North Dakota Study Group's annual meeting in Detroit, February 2013.
A Year at Mission Hill
Mission Hill, sister school to the Boggs School, has been featured in this outstanding documentary. Check out the 10-part video series chronicling the rhythms and relationships of a year in the life of one of America’s most successful public schools.
Why the James and Grace Lee Boggs School?
Why the James and Grace Lee Boggs School?
By Guest Blogger Kibibi Blount-Dorn
Before I was a parent, I was adamant that, when I had children, I would send them to public school. I knew that any school could become a nurturing learning environment if there were enough dedicated parents, teachers, and administrators. But somewhere along the way, our education system became an industry instead of an institution.
Interdependence
By Julia Putnam
I dropped my children off at their elementary school this morning. As so many other mothers did. As so many other mothers did not.
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Education and Evolution in Detroit - Greg Smith
Education and Evolution in Detroit
Gregory Smith
Are There Any Neighborhood Schools Left in Detroit?
What's old is new again. As our team tries to reimagine the idea of the neighborhood school, we have had to examine what issues the decline in this idea has created in Detroit, specifically in Islandview Village. Members of the Islandview community have expressed their frustration with the assertion that a decreasing number of children in the area was responsible for the decision to close Bellevue in 2005. Through our demographic research, conversations with Islandview neighbors, and walk-throughs of the neighborhood, we have learned that there are currently many children in the area a
CHARTER UPDATE
The Boggs Educational Center Project Team is thrilled to announce that we have received a charter contract offer from Eastern Michigan University. This partnership will allow the school to open in September of 2013. Currently, the school plans to open with 88-100 Kindergarten through Grade 3 students in mixed-aged classrooms. The school is slated to open in the former Bellevue Elementary School in the Islandview neighborhood on Detroit’s East Side.
