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Lake Erie Preparatory School14405 Saint Clair Ave.Cleveland, OH 44110
Collinwood Demographics Total Population 20,028 Male Population 9,124 Female Population 10,903 Median Age 37.41
White Collar Employment 3,692 Blue Collar Employment 3,123
Education Statistics
No High School 7859.6%Some High School 2,00624.6%Some College 3,37841.4%Associates Degree 7689.4%Bachelors Degree833 10.2 %Graduate Degree 395 4.8%
Household Income and Average Income
Median Income Under 25$20,216Median Income 25-44$23,668Median Income 45-64$30,263Median Income Over 65$21,841
Community Help
Food Pantries within Approximately 1 Mile from LEP:• Collinwood Community Pantry (0 miles away)• Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church (0.39 miles away)• EBC Fery Development Corp. (0.46 miles away)• Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (0.54 miles away)• Freedom Christian Assembly International Faith Ministries (0.61
miles away)• Word Church at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center East Cleveland
(0.87 miles away)• New Covenant Lutheran Church (0.95 miles away)• Greater Cleveland Food Bank (1.10 miles away)
Ethnic Food in Collinwood
• China Mountain—Chinese Food• Grovewood Tavern & Bar—Exotic Foods
from Around the World• Calyspo’s Restaurant—Soul Food• New Jack Chen’s Chinese Restaurant• Kim’s Wings—Soul Food• V’s Gourmet Chicken—Soul Food• Cogin’s Italian—Italian Food• Messina Pizza & Bakery—Italian Food
Languages• Spanish 2%• Laotian 0.9%• German 0.5%• Russian 0.5%• Other Slavic 0.5%• Serbo-Croatian 0.4%• Korean 0.3%• Hungarian 0.2%• Dutch 0.2%• African 0.1%• Chinese0.1%• French 0.1%
African=Amharic, Ibo, Twi, Bantu, Swahili, Somali
http://statisticalatlas.com/neighborhood/Ohio/Cleveland/North-Collinwood/Languages
Places of Worship
• Greater Faith Baptist Church • Greater Bethel AME• St. Jerome’s Church• Burning Bush Baptist Church• St. Mary’s Church• New Zion Church of God• Freedom Christian Assembly• Sonrise Ministries• Holy Redeemer • Beulah Baptist Church• Anointed Gates Church
Dr. Lockhart Interview--PrincipalResources to enhance multicultural education:
• Lake Erie Prep’s student population is 100 % Black• Multicultural education will come from the teachers
teaching their culture and the teachers being willing to learn the culture of their students.
• The key becomes the teachers learning the culture of the students first because once students realize that you care, they’ll learn anything. But, if you don’t care about their culture, you’re going to have a rough year.
Dr. Lockhart Interview--PrincipalHow LEP Connects to the Surrounding Neighborhood:
• Staff did a walk around the neighborhood and doing literature drops.
• The staff walked a total of seven days purveying the area and connecting to the area in which they staff would be servicing.
Neighborhood Walk
Dr. Lockhart Interview--Principal.What LEP Offers to Reach the Needs of the Students:
• Tutoring-required for students who score at a specific range on BOY and mid-quarter tests. Tutoring covers ELA, Math, and Science and lasts for an hour three times a week.
• Saturday School- required for students who score at a specific range on BOY and mid-quarter tests. Saturday School covers ELA and Math and lasts for approximately two hours every Saturday.
• Meals at both tutoring and Saturday School
These are the activities that LEP offers:
Volleyball Basketball Gospel Choir Dance Teams Students desire to
comply more with rules and regulations of school because of extracurricular activities
Cultural Day at
LEPWe had a professional African Drummer come in and teach our students :• How to use the
drums properly• How to make music
using drums and other basic items, like brooms and trash cans
• How to dance with the music
• He gave the students a chance to dance and play the music
Dr. Lockhart Interview--PrincipalTrips as Learning Tools and Incentives:
Trips to Cincinnati to The Underground Railroad Museum (8th grade)
Cedar Point (Incentive)
Community Connections: Several Daycare Days where preschools can
come and see what it’s like to be in Kindergarten at LEP.
Connecting with local churches to see if they will partner with LEP to transport students for Saturday School. Dr. Lockhart realizes that students who ride the yellow bus will not be able to participate in Saturday School if not for additional transportation service.
8th graders volunteer days at Day Care learning how to teach at the Day Care next door.
Dr. Lockhart Interview--Principal
Dr. Lockhart Interview--Principal
Unique Cultural Experiences that Students Will Bring To the Classroom:
LEP African American students bring with them alternative capital; bring different skill sets into the classroom. Teachers need to understand what they are and how to tap into them.
Skills they bring:• Navigational Skills: students can read signs on the poles and
navigate routes home and alternative routes if there is impending danger from gang activity.
• Understanding what teddy bears on a pole mean or shoes thrown over an electric line as a part of their culture and community.
• Linguistic Skills: they understand the different nuances in language as they transition from place to place, and home to home.
In this environment…Everybody learns, students and teachers.
Challenges: As with many urban schools, teachers come from middle
class America who are white that do not understand the culture and refuse to learn the culture of their students.
However, a teacher who can keep their own identity and yet learn the culture of her students can flourish in this type of community.
Example:Math teacher who teaches math by using popular
music and students’ culture to connect students to curriculum. Has the highest test score across middle school in the network because she is culturally responsive in her teaching. This is also called CRCM: culturally responsive classroom management.
Dr. Lockhart Interview--Principal
TEACHER OF THE YEAR FINALIST
Ashley Faller, first grade teacher at the Lake Erie Preparatory School, has been named a Teacher of the Year Finalist by the Ohio Council of Community Schools (OCCS). Ashley Faller has been teaching first grade at Lake Erie Preparatory School since 2013 and has demonstrated a commitment to the mission and vision of Lake Erie Preparatory School by truly embodying the components of doing whatever it takes to ensure her scholars are prepared for second grade and the future. She creates a safe and inviting environment where all scholars feel comfortable engaging in the learning process.
Scholars in Ms. Faller's classroom are eager to participate and show what they know because they are truly proud of their learning and success. Ms. Faller creates rigorous and relevant lessons in which she makes age appropriate connections to potential colleges and careers for the scholars. One hundred percent of Ms. Faller's scholars can actively recite the school's mission and explain what it means to them now and in the future
Every Month there is a Community Celebration at ICAN:
This is a time where the students can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Three scholars per classroom are given awards for the three pillars of ICAN: Respect, Responsibility, and Relentlessness.
Community Celebration
Possible School-Community Connections:
Table Talk Mentoring Program that services youth ages 14-21. It acts as a safe and judgment free zone where teens can discuss topics that are important to them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Pediatrics Reach Out and Read Book Drive: collecting books for children ages 6 months to 5 years old. These books will be given out to children at their well visits. It promotes literacy in young children.
Coit Road Farmers Market: Patrons can purchase fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables on Wednesdays and Saturdays. They also offer free cooking classes on selected Saturdays and Wednesdays.
Annual Corn Roast and BBQ where the community can try Ohio sweet corn, BBQ and side dishes in August.
Cooking With Kids at Collinwood Neighborhood Catholic Ministries House.
Youth Leaders Program: teaches 6th-12th graders life tools consisting of problem solving, critical thinking, leadership skills, and community responsibility at the Collinwood Recreational Center.
Euclid Kick-off to Health: Euclid mayor partnered with the Cleveland Clinic as a part of the Clinic’s Healthy Communities Initiative for 2015. This program impacts the community through awareness, using community resources to promote optimal health.
Cleveland Youth Summer Rowing Association Summer Programs: to provide competitive rowing experience to positively impact the mind, body and spirit of young athletes in the area.
8th Grade Graduates
Student Engagement
ICAN SCHOOLS
There are seven schools in Cleveland, two schools in Akron/Canton, and one school in Indiana.
1. Northeast Ohio College Preparatory School
2. Cleveland College Preparatory School
3. University of Cleveland Preparatory School
4. Lake Erie Preparatory School5. Ohio College Preparatory School6. Akron Preparatory School7. Canton College Preparatory
School8. Indiana College Preparatory
School
Doug Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion
ICAN schools follows the teaching strategies laid out by Doug Lemov.
Lemov stresses a strict behavior management plan and provides 49
teaching techniques that steer students towards college.
Sample of Techniques
1. No Opt Out2. Board =
Paper3. Vegas4. 100 Percent5. Threshold 6. No
Warnings7. J-Factor
Claps Chants and Cheers
• Awesome Clap• Roller Coaster Clap• Motor Cycle Clap• Rapid Clap• Oh Yeah
Behavior Management System
• Elementary- Check Chart &Power Hour
• 4-8—Demerits
SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!
Success!•
ICAN’s first graduating class, class of 2015 with a total number of 34 seniors have all been accepted to a
four year college, with many being awarded scholarships of about
$33,312.44 per student!
Connection to Text
“When teachers—regardless of their own social class backgrounds—are consciously prepared to be aware of, to think, and to act in multicultural ways, they are more likely to be effective in teaching students from a variety of backgrounds” (Cushner, et al, 2012).
Marshall Emerson IIICo-founder and CEO, I Can Schools
Detroit Native help launch E-Prep one of
Breakthrough’s high performing schools.
resigned as its head of school to start I Can Schools with Jason Stragand, E Prep's former curriculum chief.
"We have an educational model that works; it works and can be replicated over and over again," said Emerson. He and Stragand are also serving as for-profit consultants to struggling charter schools.
Jason StragandCo-founder, Chief Academic Officer
E Prep's former curriculum Mr. Stragand said the schools
through regular assessments are able to identify students who are falling behind and place them into after-school tutoring and Saturday school to ensure they're ready to move on to the next grade the following year.
“Marshall and I are not opening schools to just say we are opening more schools,” Mr. Stragand said. “We're doing it to make an impact on urban education.”Co-founder of I CAN JasonStragand
and the first HS graduating class! @ICANSCHOOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG33Q2IprMw
To Know where their going you have to know where they come from:
References
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/04/e_prep_co-founder_to_start_net.html
http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=B23E47F8A7B54555A4E2B92BABBA01C0
http://www.icanschools.org/leadership-team
https://twitter.com/icanschooler