Summit Public Schools (Charter school operator)

Summit Public Schools is a charter management organization (CMO) with eight schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and three schools in Washington state. Summit operates eleven schools in total, enrolling approximately 2,000 students. All eleven schools are tuition-free, public charter schools with no entrance requirements. The headquarters is located in Redwood City, California.

Summit Public Schools
HeadquartersRedwood City, California
ServicesCharter school management
Founder/CEO
Diane Tavenner
Superintendent
Anson Jackson
Websitewww.summitps.org
11 schools (2017)

Summit is the recipient of grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[1]

Schools

Summit Learning

The pedagogy employed at Summit schools, dubbed "Summit Learning," is a personalized, project-based learning (PBL) curriculum that puts students "in charge" of their own learning.[2][3][4]

Courses are built around projects done at students' own paces instead of traditional coursework modules, and teachers focus their energy on tutoring individual students as many grading functions are automated.[5]

References
  1. "Summit Public Schools". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. "Summit Olympus is Placing Learning in Students' Hands | Getting Smart Podcast". Gettingsmart.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  3. "Mark Zuckerberg and his plan for a personalized learning revolution | News". Tes.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  4. "Inside Silicon Valley's Big-Money Push to Remake American Education". Motherjones.com. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  5. McDermott, John (August–September 2017). "The flaw of averages". 1843 Magazine. Retrieved 2017-11-27.

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