Join us for a weekly gathering where guest speakers and experts in their fields of interest help us re-imagine what our neighborhood, Bridgeport, can become. Its a place to meet your neighbors and new friends from afar. Join us to share your ideas on how to make positive community contributions and learn some new tactics and strategies for improvement, all while drinking a few craft beers
Join us at Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar (960 w 31st st) this Sunday at 6pm for a presentation on a proposed Charter School for the hood.
About Be The Change Charter School
We are a small group of teachers committed to seek change by creating a small charter school that serves grades K-8 in the Bridgeport community of Chicago. Be the Change Charter School (BCCS) is a public, open-enrollment, and non-selective school that provides another neighborhood schooling option for families. As a charter school, we are allowed more flexibility for innovative practices and methods to fulfill our mission.
Mission
The mission of BCCS is to cultivate in its students and teachers the qualities of curiosity, resilience, advocacy, and empathy, empowering them to be active participants in the community and in the larger democracy. We believe that “being the change” at its core is about changing the way schools have traditionally defined success. While we want our students to achieve well according to traditional measures, like test scores, we believe that our students will be successful if they are able to speak up for themselves and others, work together as part of a team, and become active participants in their learning and their community.
Our vision is to create a safe and trusting environment where students, teachers, and community members work together and take on the role of active learners and citizens. As a purposefully diverse school, where we will respect and honor people from different backgrounds, with different abilities, interests and ideas, and acknowledge that these differences make learning dynamic and nurture the classroom and community.
Email: bethechangeschool@gmail.com
Website
http://bethechangeschool.weebly.com/
* Our 2012 Winter session started January 8, and will run through winter.
