BELIEVE STL Academy

Check out three more organizations you could learn from next week at Lead in the Lou! BELIEVE Academy: BELIEVE Academy coming to the St. Louis region! Join us to learn more about this new school! Eye Thrive: Come hear about Eye Thrive's immediate and measurable impact. Navigate STL Schools: Join to hear about their mission to increase access to comprehensive information in an education choice landscape. Link here / in our bio for more information and to register! https://lnkd.in/gBnEi9Vi

Special thank you to the STL American newspaper for this outstanding article about Believe STL Academy. You still have time to register your 9th/10th grade child for the 2024-2025 School Year! https://lnkd.in/guqM7bEP

Happy Friday! It is time to "tell us something good!" This week we are excited to feature Kimberly Neal-Brannum, TFA St. Louis '02, and BELIEVE STL Academy! Here is what Kim had to say about her work at BELIEVE, "I am looking forward to the day that we design schools for all children. The current educational system was never designed for all children, and we have to confront the anti-blackness in our society and schools in order to move in the right direction. I will continue working towards educational equity until we see a change." "BELIEVE is an inclusive environment designed to close the income gap in our country, not just the achievement gap. We BELIEVE our focus on life outcomes versus academic only outcomes makes us a super unique model." You could hear more from Kimberly and BELIEVE Academy STL at our annual Lead in The Lou event on February 29th! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gQFwNYTx or the link in our bio! Want to share "something good" with us to be featured on our socials? Use the link here: https://bit.ly/3vONagQ

This is why we must elect a new Board for the children of St. Louis. While parents are standing up and taking matters into their own hands, working a full day only to sit in a 3 hour training to learn about the science of reading and how to improve literacy, the PAID leaders are standing outside on street corners complaining that kids and families are leaving the district by the thousands. They are complaining about the mass exodus of parents trying to escape the very education they are responsible for improving. Rather than discuss what they can do to improve education, they are blaming charter schools for daring to open their doors as charters try to grant families a reprieve from a failing school district. Only 13%… 13% of Black children in SLPS can read on grade level. Rather than holding district leaders accountable and asking about the plans to improve, news outlets like the Post Dispatch provide voice and cover for an ineffective board. Most charter schools struggle just as much to educate our children. But the difference we see is that charters are spending their time trying to improve rather than pointing fingers and playing a blame game. We don’t care if there are 100 high schools in this city if they all suck. Give me 101 if that one carries the hope of a quality education. We believe in @believeschoolsstl We believe in parents and @blackmenreadstl We believe in teachers trying to do their best. We believe in the greatness of our children. We do not believe that the SLPS board has the love for or the dedication to Black children needed to provide families with the education they deserve #WeCantWait, resign now or be voted out in 2025

Congratulations to the founding team and board of Believe STL Academy on your charter approval! We are so excited about the impact you will have here in your hometown - Jawn Alexzandra Manning and Kimberly Neal-Brannum - welcome home! If you have an 8th grader looking to enter 9th grade in Fall 2024, check out Believe STL Academy https://lnkd.in/gDGGrU7c #approved #charterschools #highquality #homegrown #StLouis #Education #Believe #BelieveSTL #BelieveIndy Jesse Dixon Paris Woods, Ed.D. Tiara Jordan kacey martin-johnson