Tomorrow is going to be very interesting...

I'm doing something very exciting (at least to me) tomorrow morning ~ attending an open house at Amistad Academy in New Haven. Amistad Academy was started in 1999 by people who believed that urban kids could reach the same academic achievement as the kids who enjoyed the stability and opportunity of suburban schools, if given the right structure. The founders of Amistad Academy, after finding success with the system they had put in place at the Academy, created Achievement First, a non-profit organization given that task of starting new schools based on the Amistad Academy model.

I'm very interested to observe how the classes feel energy-wise, and how the teachers interact with the students. I hope it's wonderful.

An overview of Achievement First ~ check out all the videos.