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Charter School Provides Top
Technology for Parents
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First year charter school,
Global
Village
Academy, adds an additional cutting edge
plan to their already innovative education style. The school offers
language immersion in three world languages, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish,
and French. They feature International Baccalaureate curriculum. From
the start, as parents’ commitment to their children’s education, school
enrollment involves parents offering 30
hours of
volunteer service to the school. And now, Principal Christina Burton and
Vice Principal Debra Mitchell Salih have found yet another way to bring
innovation to their school.
“As
I was considering how I could best be an asset to the school while
fulfilling my volunteer commitment, I considered my professional work
and decided if I could donate my skills as a online and off-line Success
Coach, it would be an easy fit for me and very valuable to the school.
The leaders at the school were open to the idea, so we began crafting a
plan.” stated Michael Frazier, parent at Global Village Academy.
The
first order of business was to set up an AskChristina.org website. The
website is designed for parents to ask any question and the Principal to
have the ability to address everyone collectively in a one hour call
each week, so all parents can be informed of school happenings and the
Principal can experience greater communication efficiency. In addition
to having the ability to submit a question 24/7, the weekly call is
recorded, so if a parent is unable to listen at the time of the
interview call, they have the choice of hearing the call from their
computer or even download it to their Mp3 players and listen on the go.
This forum shows an openness that has never been seen in a
Charter School or Public School before. This form
of open communication and commitment to the parents on a weekly basis
insures that they will have their questions addressed and is a great
time management tool for both the Principal and the Vice Principal.
Michael Frazier conducts the Ask Christina interview calls and added, “I
won’t allow her (Principal Christina Burton) to avoid the question. I
have a vested interest in her answers, because my daughter attends the
school. This brings a win-win concept to school communication. And all
the parents have access to the same information.”
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