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Projects & Recent Accomplishments
At See Forever, we are engaged
in a range of activities in support of our students and our
schools.
Current
Projects
Below are some of our current priorities:
- Oakhill Academy
Oak Hill is a significant project
for See Forever and for the District of Columbia.
By giving us the opportunity to run this school, the
District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation
Services has committed to a profound change in the
education of the City’s most at-risk youth, and
we are determined to make Oak Hill a national model
for education in the juvenile justice system. At See
Forever and the Maya Angelou Public Charter School,
we have had success with court-involved youth, high
school dropouts, and students with special needs,
and we bring that experience and knowledge to Oak
Hill. Over 80% of our graduates go on to college or
postsecondary school, more than two times as many
stay in college to earn a Bachelor’s Degree,
and overall 10% more earn a BA, AA, or certificate
than their peers. We expect the Oak Hill project to
help students achieve similarly lofty goals.
- Developing partnerships with
an extended range of colleges and summer program providers
so that our students can spend time over the summer
at places like outdoor leadership centers, colleges,
art programs, and more. Our goal is to enable our
students to have an enriching experience offsite over
the summer.
- Advocating at the City Council
level for improved funding for after school programming,
job training, special education services, and counseling
and mental health services.
- Developing, with the support
of the Lumina Foundation and the Commonweal Foundation,
two school-based initiatives designed to improve student
performance beyond high school. The Lumina funded
program is a three-year pilot program designed to
provide intensive support to alumni during their first
year of college, and the Commonweal funded program
is one-year grant to research and provide real-world
recommendations on transition programming for students
with special needs. We are piloting each of these
programs this school-year.
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Future Projects
Over the next few months we will start working on some
key initiatives. Below are a few of them:
- Working with community groups to expand the reach
the Maya Angelou Public Charter School by opening
up to two additional campuses in targeted areas in
the City. If you are interested in talking with us
about opening a campus in your community, please email
Cynthia Robbins at crobbins@seeforever.org
- Launching an endowment campaign that will ensure
long-term funding to our campuses, enabling them to
provide the sort of support that our students need,
but that extends beyond what is provided by public
charter school funding. If you are interested in supporting
this ambitious development plan, please email Ingrid
Padgett at DevelopmentDept@seeforever.org
- Working on solving some technical and legislative
hurdles that can make it difficult for us to serve
our students. An example is to fix the process here
in the District so that public charter schools can
gain Medicaid reimbursements for mandated mental health
services.
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Recent Accomplishments
Some of our recent accomplishments include:
- Received approval from the
Public Charter School Board to amend our Charter
to include Middle Schools. We will be opening a Middle
School Campus in Fall of 2007.
- Upgrading our multi-site financial
management system that will better connect our growing
organization with a central platform and ensure responsible
financial management.
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