Category: Impact

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Gateway Community School | San Mateo | California School Information:Gateway offers a temporary program which provides students with a place to demonstrate positive behavior in the areas of academics, attendance and attitude. Students are placed at Gateway by the district schools for one or two semesters, and may, with the permission of the district, decide to stay […]

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Ochoa Middle School | Hayward | California School Information: Anthony W. Ochoa Middle School is located in Hayward, CA and is one of 5 middle schools in Hayward Unified School District. It is a public school that serves approximately 610 students in grades 7-8. Approximately 60% of students participate in a free or reduced lunch program and […]

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Union High School | Grand Rapids | Michigan School Information: Michigan has three criteria to categorize schools: Reward, Focus, and Priority. Reward schools are outperforming other schools, Focus schools have a large achievement gap in 30% of its student achievement scores, and Priority schools have achievement and growth in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state. Union High School […]

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Point Quest Education (PQE) | Sacramento | California School Information: PQE is a nonpublic school that serves students with emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges; arguably the highest need students in their region. Students who can no longer be served by public institutions transfer to PQE where they can learn the tools and strategies needed to return […]

Harbor High School, an Organized Binder school in Santa Cruz, CA has committed to "Setting the Purpose" of each lesson they teach. We are honored that the incredible staff at Harbor High School adopted Organized Binder to help them make this goal a reality:

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Mount Clemens High School | Mount Clemens | Michigan Demographic: 75% minority students, 79% Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, and nearly three quarters of student body participate in the Free Lunch program. Background: Mount Clemens High School for a number of years has suffered from declining enrollment. The school is serving some of the region north of Detroit's most […]

TEACHER PROFILE Teacher: Elizabeth (Lizzy) Kelly School: Connect Community Charter School | Redwood City | California Years Teaching: 2 [divider] BACKGROUND Lizzy Kelly is a second year teacher and part of a small team that started Connect Community Charter School in arguably the most underserved neighborhood in Redwood City, CA.  Surrounded by increasingly affluent cities, Lizzy and Connect Charter School serve a […]

Diane Nienhuis, a veteran high school Spanish teacher and longtime Organized Binder Teacher was featured in our news feed in December of 2013. She recently sent the following report to us and we thought we would share it with you: "Glad to hear you're busy! I hope it's all Organized Binder stuff because the Organized Binder IS AMAZING! […]

TEACHER PROFILE Teacher: Matt Sahagun School: Woodside High School | Sequoia Union High School District | California Years Teaching: Three [divider] BACKGROUND Matt Sahagun is a third year high school Physics teacher at Woodside High School in the Sequoia Union High School District in California. Matt contacted us at the end of the last school year saying, “I have given an end-of-the-year survey to my students […]

TEACHER PROFILE Teacher: Daniel Tkach School: Cupertino High School | Fremont Union High School District | California Years Teaching: First year [divider] BACKGROUND Daniel Tkach is a first year high school English teacher at Cupertino High School in the Fremont Union High School District in California. Earlier this school year Daniel was trained on how to implement Organized Binder by attending one of […]