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Summit Public Schools (Public Charter Network)

http://www.summitps.org/

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Summit Public Schools is a leading charter public school network building a world where every student is equipped to lead a fulfilled life — one with purpose, financial independence, community, strong relationships, and health. Summit’s mission is to prepare a diverse student population for success in a four-year college or university and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society. It operates 14 public schools that serve diverse communities throughout California and Washington, offering project-based learning through a personalized approach and 1:1 mentorship. Further, Summit leverages its work to have a broader impact on public education in America.

Summit schools are consistently ranked among the best in the nation. Summit students graduate prepared for college and its graduates complete college at nearly double the national average. According to a recent report, a vast majority of Summit alumni say that they’re leading fulfilled lives. To learn more, please visit www.summitps.org.

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Location: United States, California, Redwood City

Employees: 201-500

Phone: +1 650-257-9880

Founded date: 2003

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Date	Title	Description
30.10.2020	Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do	Learner OutcomesAltitude Learning
24.04.2017	Data Sharing Hasn’t Been a Concern for Most Newsela Customers—But Super Users Want More	Improving how student data is shared across systems has been a slowly evolving concern for Newsela since its launch in 2013. The New York City-based startup offers a reading tool that lets students read nonfiction and news articles at diffe...
28.03.2017	Can SEL Support Personalized Learning? How One Chicago School is Finding Out	Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden, a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. Through the use of learner profiles and online programs, teachers are better able to ...
14.03.2017	How Valor Collegiate Academy is Rethinking SEL	With the realization that many students today are unprepared for college and the changing career landscape, some schools are exploring new instructional models and broadening their definition of student success to include skills beyond trad...
30.12.2016	Barnett Berry on Teachers as Partners—Not Targets—of Innovation	My friends at EdSurge asked me to speculate on where education technology can go in 2017, drawing on inspiration from Dr. Seuss and “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” Let’s start with the findings from a recent national survey of teachers, examini...
18.10.2016	AltSchool Announces 2017 Partner Schools, Gives Insight Into Monetization	AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup, raised $100 million on the backs of “microschools.” Now, it’s focusing less on building campuses and more on sharing and selling its technology. During 2016’s SXSWedu, AltSchool CEO and co-founder M...
30.09.2016	How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models	This profile is part of an EdSurge Research Guide about school redesign and the landscape of service provider organizations that support schools and districts throughout the process. The full guide includes a report highlighting trends, ins...
14.09.2016	XQ Institute Announces 10 Winners of ‘Super Schools’ Competition	What event can bring together the likes of Jill Biden, MC Hammer, Geoffrey Canada, Nancy Pelosi, and a crowd of educators, students and investors? The official announcement of winners of the XQ: Super School Project. In September 2015, Laur...
26.05.2016	Lindsay Unified Joins the Growing Number of Schools Franchising Their Models to Other Systems	There is no clear path to designing a ground breaking personalized learning school. Some leaders begin with a school model tour across America, trying to boil down—in a few short hours wandering school halls—what works and how to replicate ...
26.03.2016	Deeper Learning Demands Deeper Leading—and Technology Can Help	Knowledgeable. Versatile. Creative. Engaged. Being college- and career-ready is no simple task. It’s time for all American students to take part in deeper learning.Even in technologically rich environments, deeper learning can only achieve ...
19.02.2016	Why Education Needs More Healthy Skeptics and Diehard Optimists Like Larry Cuban	Interested in hearing the full interview? Check it out on the EdSurge podcast. Stanford professor and edu-scholar Larry Cuban doesn’t hate technology—but he doesn’t take it at face value, either. And with good reason—he’s been a teacher, a ...
28.10.2015	How Teachers Can Run Classrooms Like ‘Lean Startups’	See if this problem-solving technique sounds familiar: form a hypothesis, design an experiment, measure the results, and use the findings to inform the follow-up experiment. Science teachers might recognize that as the “Scientific Method.” ...
06.10.2015	The Six Hats a Personalized Learning Leader Needs to Wear	Summit Public Schools CEO Diane Tavenner has been described as transformative, innovative, and entrepreneurial—apropos for the founder of a pioneering network of charter schools that combine teacher-led instruction and self-paced student le...
13.08.2015	When Schools Create Their Own Edtech Tools: The Story Behind Slate	Across the country, schools want students to focus more on learning concrete skills than abstract concepts. This approach often goes by the name of “competency-based learning,” which emphasizes skill proficiency over grades. (That C+ in Alg...
03.08.2015	Blended Learning Leaders Are Over the Honeymoon—and Rolling Up Their Sleeves	This summer, I spoke to leaders at six public charter school networks who are now wily veterans in the art of blending teacher-led instruction with online learning--also known as “blended learning”. Their titles range from Innovation Manage...
06.08.2014	How Summit Makes Friends by Challenging the Traditional Edtech Marketplace	For charter schools, there are a couple ways to grow. Some open up more sites or franchise their models. Others expand through influence, becoming thought leaders to those around them. Summit Public Schools, a charter management organizatio...
24.06.2014	Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution	Silicon Valley holds a certain mystique among entrepreneurs and investors. Here, more cool technology was born, more wealth created, and more technology revolutions begun, than anywhere else on the planet. The Valley’s formula for success h...
01.06.2014	A Peek Inside Summit’s Personalized Learning Software	Over the last three years, Summit Public Schools, a network of charter public high schools in northern California, has made a radical shift from a traditional high school model to an innovative, competency-based learning model. In this new ...
21.05.2014	The Scorecard on Blended Learning	In the last two years, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $383 million in Race to the Top competition funds to districts implementing blended learning models. But amid the models of success, “how to” guides, and lessons learned, o...
03.02.2014	Getting Ready To Go Blended In North Texas	One of Texas’ largest charter networks, Uplift Education--with 28 K-12 schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex that serve 9,600 students--will be making a big investment in blended learning. Thanks to a $360,000 grant from the Morris Fou...
10.09.2013	Blended Learning Gets MOOC’ed on Coursera	Silicon Schools Fund CEO Brian Greenberg believes that blended learning is about “reconceiving the role of the student, the teachers, and how you define schools.” But such cosmic shifts require guidance, coaching, and encouragement. With ed...
11.06.2013	Would You Rather Go to Hogwarts or Hop On the Magic School Bus?	Over the past few years, thousands of people have had the thrill of trying to start a company in a weekend, thanks to Startup Weekend workshops. But you want a serious challenge? Try redesigning a school. Last weekend (June 7-9), some 130 p...
10.04.2013	Which Way for K12 Blended Learning?	Read the first part of Alex's series, Which Way for K12 Blended Learning? (Part 1 - Boarding the Mayflower) Just beyond the mountains, there is a land where unicorns run free, jumping from rainbow to rainbow. The children call the land “Edt...
26.03.2013	The ‘Lean Startup’ Model Goes To School	Fail quickly. Fix quicker. If you’re an entrepreneur that mantra might sounds familiar, if you’re a teacher, not quite so. But just as many companies in Silicon Valley have been inspired by the book, The Lean Startup, Summit Public Schools,...
13.03.2013	What a Startup and a School Have in Common	A couple of weeks ago we posed the question, What Happens When You Cross a School and a Startup? Voilà, Clever on Campus was born. Our exploration involved Summit Public Schools, a leading Bay Area charter network and Clever, a fast-growing...
26.02.2013	What Happens When You Cross a School and a Startup?	Everywhere we go in the ed tech community, whether at a meetup or in a blog post, people are asking "How should ed tech companies and schools work best together?" Clever and Summit Public Schools have had lots of great conversatio...

Summit Public Schools (Public Charter Network)

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