Giving Student Opportunities for Success Through Saturday School with Amanda (Principal, Equality Charter Middle School)

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Hi everyone, my name is Amanda who said and I am the middle school principal and Equality charter school. I became an educator following in the footsteps of my mom. She was a single mother and went back to get her own education, finishing her undergrad and graduate degree and found herself working at the elementary school she attended as a child. She was a power professional, a teacher, a literacy coach and she had a wonderful career in education. I learned very quickly that education has the opportunity to transform lives but also to save them because it definitely saved mine as an educator, I've had the opportunity to work in literacy classrooms. That was where I started in elementary school, moving my way into middle school and actually serving as one of the first reading intervention teachers at PCS. During my time as principal, I've also had the opportunity to pitch in and help out in our math classrooms as well as our science classrooms and for saturday academy, I'm actually working with our sixth grade around math. Our goal is to make sure that as many of our scholars as possible, have the opportunity to be successful in algebra one in their eighth grade year, to earn high school credit and our saturday program is going to help us do just that. In addition to map, writing and reading, we want to make sure to give our scholars the opportunity to experience dance, drama and music and really make our saturday programming as robust as possible. I know growing up in the Bronx, continuing to live in the Bronx and being a mother of two Children in the Bronx, how limiting resources can sometimes be, especially in terms of weekend programming. So I'm truly happy that at equality we can offer our scholars the opportunity to be engaged in academics, but also to continue to build trump communities with their peers and with their teachers during our saturday programming. Thank you so much for any donation you happen to make to our school. It goes to a great cause and it helps to change the lives of our scholars and the Bronx community at large.