Jan. 28, 2025 By Tyriq Presley, Analyst at the Ford Foundation, Class of 2012, Excellence Boys Charter School/Sponsored by Uncommon Schools When I reflect on the experiences that have most profoundly impacted my life, my time at Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School, a PreK-8 school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, stands out. It wasn’t just a school…
Oct. 2, 2024 Sponsored by Uncommon Schools Uncommon Schools Excellence Boys Elementary was brand new when Latasha Smith was searching for an elementary school in Crown Heights for her first-grade son. At the time, Excellence Boys only offered kindergarten and first grade in a building shared with other public schools. But something about the…
May. 20, 2024 Sponsored by Uncommon Schools
For seventh grader J’Kari Sanders, playing the saxophone helps calm him down after math class at Uncommon Schools’ Ocean Hill Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn.
Nov. 15, 2023 Sponsored post by Uncommon Schools
A new school grows in Williamsburg. Uncommon Schools has opened a new elementary school on Montrose Ave. in Brooklyn to serve students from the Williamsburg neighborhood and the greater Brooklyn community.
Aug. 4, 2023 Sponsored post by Uncommon Schools
More than a decade before he became principal of a high-performing middle school in Brooklyn, Quinterrence Bell was a fresh-faced college student who just completed his junior year at Morehouse College and found himself in front of a classroom for the first time.