School Culture Where Everyone Thrives
Providing training and coaching for schools and organizations, leading Community Schools, and advocating for educational transformation - there is a lot happening at the Positive Schools Center! These stories are about school administrators, teachers, staff, and students who are doing day-to-day work that makes a difference. Read more stories >
The Next Generation Scholars program was just renewed for a sixth year to continue to support students at Booker T. Washington Middle School, Renaissance Academy, and Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, and other Baltimore City high schools. Scholars have toured nine colleges and universities this past fall including Baltimore City Community College, Community College of Baltimore County, Morgan State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Johnson C. Smith University, University of North Carolina, George Washington University, and Coppin State University. We are excited for college acceptance letters to start coming in! Click to see pictures, highlights, and events from each of our programs.
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This academic year has been a great year for our Community Schools team! We are happy to report that we have expanded our model to 12 schools in Baltimore City and are fully staffed. The Positive Schools Center was approved by the school board to continue and expand our Community School work in Baltimore City. We were also one of only 42 grantees in the nation to receive the U.S. Department of Education's competitive Full-Service Community Schools grant. With additional funding and a talented team, we are excited to see the new initiatives that'll continue enhancing the creation of more positive and engaged school communities. Click below to see pictures, highlights, and events from each of our programs.
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Our work is rooted in five key strategies.
How We Work +Through introspection and self-reflection, staff members are better equipped to integrate racial equity, healing, and cross-racial community building in all spaces of their everyday work.
The PSC focuses on the development of the whole person, not just academic outcomes.
Using collaborative decision-making and constant community conversations, schools should be inclusive of all three voices in making decisions.
School staff need tools to respond to the traumatic experiences of their students, neighborhoods, and themselves.
Students and school staff practice skills that build supportive learning spaces, mediate conflict, and eliminate the need for punitive discipline.
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