The American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland serves a population that is similar to Mueller’s… but they get much different results. They are widely praised for achieving an amazing API of 967, one of the highest scores in the entire state!
Last night we read an LA Times article about the school. Here are some questions to reflect on:
• Would you send your child to the American Indian Charter School?
• The article quotes a donor from the Koret Foundation in the Bay Area as saying:
“They really should be the model for public education in the state of California. What I will never understand is why the world is not beating a path to their door to benchmark them, learn from them and replicate what they are doing.”
Are they a model? Should we be “beating a path to their door” to replicate what they are doing?
• This may be an excellent article to help us align our core values with our actions and our efforts here at Mueller: Who are we as an organization? What do we stand for? What are we willing to do to get results like the American Indian Charter School… and what are we NOT willing to do?
What guiding questions would you pose to your colleagues about this article?
