Philadelphia BAEO, in partnership with the Lotus Academy, was granted a charter from the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to provide a new BAEO/Gates small high school alternative for Philadelphia students. The New Media Technology Charter School features an innovative approach to learning that challenges students to work with their teachers, parents, mentors and peers to create projects that meet state standards. Students choose to major in either Digital Photography/Videography, Website Design and Development, Presentation Software, or Video Game Design. New Media currently has a 1:16 teacher to student ratio, and a 1:1 student to computer ratio. The school�s small population, of no more than 400 students, benefits from the interactive teacher leadership that accompanies the EdVisions model of creative project-based learning. The New Media Technology Charter School opened in September, 2004 with 100 9th graders in the West Oak Lane section of the city. For more information visit www.newmediatech.net or call 267-286-6900.
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- Small Schools Project
- Buck Institute for Education
The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) is a research and development organization working to make schools and classrooms more effective through the use of problem and project based instruction. - Philadelphia Weekly
"Hip Hop High" Can Mt. Airy's Isaac Ewell turn a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into a successful network of success-driven charter schools in low-income urban black communities? - High School for Recording Arts, St. Paul MN
Successful PBL school founded by BAEO member and Sr. Technical Assistant to BAEO schools, Tony Simmons and partner David "TC" Ellis
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New Media Technology Charter School
7800 Ogontz Ave.,
Philadelphia, PA