opening, growing and sustaining a chinese immersion charter school
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Education & Business
2 sides of starting & growing a successful Chinese
Immersion charter school
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• (insert cute student pics - for overview)– (overview - say below)– great year coming up - new faces, new spaces– start with a little history about Yu Ying– learned – changes for this year
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Nurturing Excellence
• Our Model: International Baccalaureate with Chinese Immersion
• Our Goal: Provide DC (and our children) with a world class education
• PreK 4 - 4th grade growing to 8th grade
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• 2008-9130 Students, 28 Full time staff
• 2009-10198 Students, 35 Full time staff
• 2010-11240 Students, 40 Full time staffgreat 1st year testing results
• 2011-12365 Students, 55 Full time staff$6m+ budgetRenovated & purchased a 40,000 square foot building
4 Years of Rapid Growth
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EconomicsINCOME• Marketing - get the students in: $3000 for facility & $9000
per student• Development (grants) - don’t leave any money on the
table: Startup grants, Title II, FLAP• Programs - Aftercare: develop programs that can make $
and supplement your budget.
EXPENSE: STAFF, Facility, StudentNET INCOME: savings for a building, rainy day, program improvements. 6
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Structure
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Business Side:Marketing,Raising Money,Managing Money,Buying & Managing the Facility,Working with support organizations
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Yu Ying Demographics
• Race: 47% African American, 30% Caucasian, 18% Asian, 5% Hispanic
• 23% FARMS• Children from all over the city but 50%
from adjacent wards• Accept students until 2nd Grade, 8%
attrition• 2012-13: 685 applications for 48 spots
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Facilities Financing (millions)
Sources:$ 1 down payment$ 1 grant$10.275 construction loan -> Govt Bonds$ 2.7 gap financing from CSDC & OSSE$ .225m+ for other costs$15.2 total costs (approx)
Uses: 7.1 in purchase price. 8.1+ in renovation & development
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Community Support
• Staff & Students• Yu Ying Parent Association• Yu Ying Board• Public Charter School Board• OSSE• Building Hope & CSDC• Other organizations:
FOCUS, Association, OAPIA
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Educational ModelCollins (2001) lists the following as steps organizations need to go through to turn from good to great
• Getting the Right People “on the bus”
• Confronting the brutal facts• Developed a Hedgehog Concept• Created a Stop Doing List
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Staffing
• Getting the right people on the bus• Passion• Knowledge• Flexibility• Hard working• Open to change• Creating a pipeline of excellent staff• Developing supportive school culture
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“Hedgehog Concept”
We developed our “1 big thing” by answering the following questions:
• What can we the best in the world at?
• What can we afford?• What do I/my staff care
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Critical Look
• When we ripped off the bandaid - what did we find?
• Wrong people• Staff needed training• Curriculum was in need of updating• School culture
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Education Summit
• Invite all staff members• Off site• Provide food• Make lots of lists
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Yu Ying 2012
We have developed the “magic momentum”• Staffing• Curriculum• Assessment• Culture• More great things to come!
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(insert pics - say great staff, amazing community & the resources to get stuff done!
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What we have accomplished
• Built a school that is in its 4th year • Success in the CAS and growth school wide• The only Chinese / English Immersion School in DC• Standardization of Curriculum.• A great Program of Inquiry and history of
implementation• An amazing Aftercare program• A school that is well-resourced & financially secure• A permanent home with acres to explore & room to
expand• AN AMAZING TEAM!!• A really involved Community• Budding partnerships to continue to help support the
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• Planning & Collaboration! • Get the right staff in and keep them• 25/50 was a lot of students so now
12-18/36• Challenging Model!• Academic summer program• Standards, testing & alignment are
critical • Great interest in our program• Our program needs to be supported at
home• Save every penny for the building
What we have learned
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Looking to the Future
• PreK 3 Full Immersion
• Creating a Joint Middle High School
• Opening a second Yu Ying in DC
• Sharing resources with other schools
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