Talkin' about Charter Corps

Charter Corps minus Alenoush, Jill and Nicole

In the fall of 2010, Highlander partnered with Times 2 Academy, another local charter school, to create the Charter Corps, an AmeriCorps program focused on serving local independent charter schools through hands-on help in classrooms, literacy and math instructional assistance, and after school programming that works to connect in-school and after school learning.

Charter Corps is made up of 14 members; half of the members of the team are assigned to Highlander Charter School and the other half to Times2 Academy. At both schools we work with students grade K through 8. During the school day each team member is assigned to a classroom where they have the opportunity to assist the teacher with classroom management, and working with students either individually or in small groups. Then during the after school time we become the teachers and focus on academic enrichment, where we reinforce what the students have learned during the school day in what we call homeroom time. We also run activity classes that include topics such as sports, art and crafts, cooking, science, math, and literacy among other learning activities that keep the students engaged and working as a group. We also participate in Freedom Fridays where we focus the after school day around self-discovery, civic issues and social change.