The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, is a 480-student middle school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City that will open in September 2009. Its mission is to ensure the academic success of its students by placing emphasis on teacher quality. “I would much rather put a phenomenal, great teacher in a field with 30 kids and nothing else than take the mediocre teacher and give them half the number of students and give them all the technology in the world,” said Zeke M. Vanderhoek, the school’s creator and first principal.
We applaud Zeke and the folks over at TEP. Not only are they doubling the average teacher salary by paying $125,000 as the base salary but they are also targeting at risk adolescents as the bulk of their student body. Although there are sure to be some kinks in their model, we hope that TEP is a success.
Learn more about TEP and Know for yourself: http://www.tepcharter.org/
2 comments:
This sounds awesome! It has always been a dream of mine to work with at-risk youths so I'm going to look into this...gotta start somewhere, right? ;)
I'm going to forward this blog on to some of my friends who are teachers...
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