Overview
Freire Charter School provides a college-preparatory learning experience with a focus on individual freedom, critical thinking, and problem-solving in an environment that emphasizes the values of community, teamwork and nonviolence. They’re situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Freire Charter Schools wanted to create a shared vision for excellent instruction across their schools to serve as the foundation for teacher hiring, professional development, and talent initiatives. They were also seeking ways to expand their recruitment initiatives to better attract teacher talent within the highly competitive teacher hiring landscape in the North East.
Objectives
The Freire Team partnered with us to:
Bring forth multiple examples of teacher observation rubrics used by high-performing districts and CMOs.
Facilitate a process to select an observation framework that aligned with Freire’s core values and instructional strategy.
Design an observation rubric that reflected Freire’s unique instructional philosophy.
Partner
Freire Charter School
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Enrollment & Schools
Freire students come from all over Philadelphia. There are currently 500 students at our middle school in Grade 5 through 8 and 500 students at our high school in Grades 9 through 12.
Mission Statement
Freire Charter School provides a college-preparatory learning experience with a focus on individual freedom, critical thinking, and problem solving in an environment that emphasizes the values of community, teamwork, equity, and commitment to peace.
Outcomes
We worked with Freire to launch multiple teacher-leader roles to drive recruitment efforts. These “teacher ambassadors” were responsible for driving a referral campaign, cultivating top teacher prospects, and participating in other initiatives to increase the number of highly qualified teacher candidates applying for open teaching roles.
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