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Community Newsletter:
- Giving thanks by acknowledging our history (November 2023)
- Six weeks in (October 2023)
- A SOULful summer (August 2023)
- “This Capital City ‘inmate’ got into Harvard” (April 2023)
- News for the New Year (January 2023)
- Announcing our next Head of School - Laina Cox! (January 2023)
- Extending our thanks (November 2022)
- We’re back and “ready to take on the world” (August 2022)
- An important update from Karen Dresden (April 2022)
- Leadership and learning spring from Capital City (February 2022)
- A school year like no other (August 2020)
- Celebrating our community while we're apart (May 2020)
- The results are in... (November 2019)
- DC Teacher of the Year! (October 2019)
- Kicking off our 20th school year (August 2019)
- New principal + student advocacy = the end to a great school year! (June 2019)
- Teacher of the Year Finalist! (May 2019)
- Student success is sprouting this spring! (April 2019)
- TIER-ific results! (November 2018)
- Feeling thankful for our national award winner! (November 2018)
- Beating the odds: Capital City grad rates exceed national average (October 2018)
- School's back, and we're ready to learn (August 2018)
- A school year of achievements including PBS NewsHour & Children's Voices of Protest (June 2018)
- Student advocacy in full bloom (April 2018)
- A flurry of Capital City news (January 2018)
- A fall full of TIER-ific news! (November 2017)
- No eclipsing our summer of achievements! (August 2017)
- Nationals 1st Baseman Promotes Summer Reading at Capital City (June 2017)
- Fifth Grader Introduces First Lady Michelle Obama at National Health Summit (May 2017)
- A Theater for Everyone (Feb 2017)
- Expedition! Community Newsletter (Jan 2017)
In the News:
- Researchers link school garden participation with healthier eating habits (The GW Hatchet – January 29, 2024)
- Dollars and sense: Can financial literacy help students learn math? (Christian Science Monitor – October 10, 2023)
- 3 ways to build resilience in the classroom (K-12 Dive – September 6, 2023)
- DC charter school claps back after congressman's 'inmate factory' comment (Fox5 DC – April 3, 2023)
- Congressman calls D.C. schools ‘inmate factories’ and unites a city (The Washington Post – April 1, 2023)
- At Project Soapbox, D.C. Students Urge Local Officials To Take Action On Issues Close To Home (DCist – December 15, 2022)
- DC students say ‘their truths’ about their biggest concerns in the community (WTOP News – December 14, 2022)
- A World of Good: Latinx Leaders at EL Education's 2022 National Conference (EL Education – October 6, 2022)
- Keep School Staff Motivated All Year Long: Advice From Principals (EducationWeek – September 26, 2022)
- Ensure Your Staff Gets the Message: 3 Tips for School Leaders (EducationWeek – September 26, 2022)
- Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced (The Hechinger Report – January 15, 2021)
- It’s Not Just About Voting: How Character, Civic Discourse Factor Into Post-Election Lessons (Education Writers Association – December 4, 2020)
- 'Standing Up for What is Right': Teaching in the Aftermath of the Presidential Election (Education Week – November 22, 2020)
- When the Building is Closed but School is Open (Part 1) and You Can’t Separate Character from Student Success (Part 2) (180 Podcast by Turnaround for Children – November 9, 2020)
- Pandemic teaching, in their words (The Washington Post – October 6, 2020)
- Are Charter Schools the Best Option? (True Chat The State of Us – October 1, 2020)
- We Listen (DC Charter School Alliance – August 6, 2020)
- How to Address Race in Schools (True Chat The State of Us – July 28, 2020)
- In D.C. wards hit hardest by covid-19, sending kids to school is a risk some parents won’t take (The Washington Post – June 10, 2020)
- Service Learning in America (Education Next – April 2020)
- Photo Flash: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Begins Rehearsals At Arena Stage (Broadway World – January 3, 2020)
- For D.C. students, lessons in growth, of the garden variety (The Washington Post – November 15, 2019)
- 'A mirror to our students': UNC grad and DC Teacher of the Year gives back (The Daily Tar Heel– November 14, 2019)
- This D.C. teacher of the year just won $7,500. He’s giving it back to his students. (The Washington Post – November 8, 2019)
- DC’s new Teacher of the Year shares his passion for science while promoting equity in education and empowering students at Capital City PCS (The DC Line – October 10, 2019)
- Primer hispano reconocido como maestro del año en DC (Telemundo – October 3, 2019)
- This is DC's teacher of the year. Here's how he was surprised with the news (WUSA9 – October 3, 2019)
- Educator Shocked When DC Mayor Names Him Teacher of the Year (NBC4 – October 2, 2019)
- 'He's like a father:' D.C. teacher of the year honored in a surprise ceremony (ABC7-WJLA – October 2, 2019)
- A school where character matters as much as academics (The Hechinger Report – September 3, 2019)
- Vocation Spots: Library Makerspaces Can Propel Teens Toward Career and Technical Education (School Library Journal – July 25, 2019)
- Dog breed specific legislation: It just doesn’t work -- a student perspective (Petworth News – May 23, 2019)
- DC unveils 2020 DC Teacher of the Year finalists after honoring city’s 2019 award-winning educators (The DC Line – May 9, 2019)
- Bowser Administration Announces Three Finalists for 2020 DC Teacher of the Year (OSSE – May 9, 2019)
- City-run program links school gardens with community volunteers to help spaces stay vibrant through the summer (The DC Line – April 22, 2019)
- Finalists for Post Principal and Teacher of the Year (Washington Post – April 2019)
- We the Students (American University Magazine – April 2019)
- The kids talked about shootings, college costs, depression. Were the adults listening? (Washington Post – April 1, 2019)
- Q&A: Principal Laina Cox On Designing Schools For Citizen Scholars (EL Education – February 24, 2019)
- ‘Week of Action’ returns to DC to share Black Lives Matter principles in local schools (DC Line – February 4, 2019)
- 9 Educators We’re Thankful We Met This Year (The 74 – November 20, 2018)
- ‘I just want to be brutally honest’: When Markieff Morris speaks to kids, nothing’s off limits (Washington Post – November 14, 2018)
- Capital City Public Charter School Principal Laina Cox Receives National Leadership Award From EL Education (EL Education – November 11, 2018)
- ‘We Will Get Out the Vote’: D.C. Middle Schoolers Barnstorm College Campus to Get Students to the Polls (The 74 – November 5, 2018)
- Travels With Charlie: Capital City Public Charter School Comes to Assateague Island (WBOC TV16 – October 26, 2018)
- Student Activism (USA TODAY Back to School Magazine – Fall 2018)
- Meet Marjoury Alicea, SBOE’s bilingual student representative (DC Language Immersion Project – August 22, 2018)
- Three EL Education Schools Join Forces To Measure Deeper Learning Skills (EL Education – August 22, 2018)
- Equity and Voice: How a Sense of Belonging Promotes Students' Agency (Education Week – August 15, 2018)
- Virginia, DC 100 Best Public High Schools: New List Released (Patch – August 3, 2018)
- Food justice curriculum in Washington, D.C. prompts students to explore food waste (PBS NewsHour – June 2018)
- Some D.C. students are seeking healthier, more affordable food for themselves, and their classmates (The Washington Post – April 18, 2018)
- D.C. EDUCATION BRIEFS: Inspiring Change (The Washington Informer – March 28, 2018)
- New Columbia Solar and DCSEU partner to bring solar to D.C. schools (DC Sustainable Energy Utility – March 28, 2018)
- Ahead of March for Our Lives, D.C. teens speak out about the gun violence they see every day (Yahoo News – March 23, 2018)
- "Tampon Tax" – essay by 9th Grader Willa (One World Education – March 2018)
- GoFundMe page set up to send nearly 100 DC students to see 'Black Panther' (ABC7 - WJLA – February 22, 2018)
- Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts (The Hechinger Report – January 15, 2018)
- Hunt-Kean Leadership Cohort 4, Begins Education Policy Fellowship in Washington (The Hunt Institute – December 6, 2017)
- Students gain an appreciation for history after learning there’s more to the story (The Washington Post – November 21, 2017)
- Youth Commissioners on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development Visit Capital City Public Charter School, Hone In on Personal Narratives During Fall 2018 Convening (The Aspen Institute – October 30, 2017)
- Hate Crimes in America: Essay by 8th Grader Zora Gregory (One World Education – October 2017)
- Through the Artist’s Lens: A Conversation with a Young Actor, Writer and Illustrator (Americans for the Arts – September 12, 2017)
- Putting It All Together (The Aspen Institute – August 24, 2017)
- For a better-educated child-care workforce, Washington looks to high school (Washington Post – August 5, 2017)
- Center for Inspired Teaching: Teacher Feature Ms. Sandra Ponce (August 2, 2017)
- Summer is here: Ryan Zimmerman helps kick-off the D.C. Public Library reading program (Washington Nationals – June 21, 2017)
- How Capital City Public Charter School Provides Its Students with a Deeper Learning Expedition (Alliance for Excellent Education – June 19, 2017)
- I’ve Been Preparing for College for Fourteen Years (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools – May 3, 2017)
- A Commitment To Belonging When The Stakes Are High (EL Education – April 27, 2017)
- JuJu at Capital City PCS (Teaching for Change – April 4, 2017)
- Students Serve Up Stories Of Beloved Family Recipes In A Global Cookbook (NPR – March 25, 2017)
- Four steps to improve US schools that (almost) everyone supports (Christian Science Monitor – March 16, 2017)
- Robust school choice and strong public schools – can US have both? (Christian Science Monitor – March 14, 2017)
- Extreme Event on the Road: Capital City Public Charter School Students Become Masters of Disaster (Koshland Science Museum – February 2017)
- Across America, high school seniors ponder life under Trump (Washington Post – November 21, 2016)
- D.C. Students March Across the District to Protest the Election, Call for Unity (WAMU – November 16, 2016)
- Can a Math Curriculum Audit Improve Student Achievement in Math? (Education Week – October 17, 2016)
- El Árbol Generoso (Documentary film in English by graduate students at George Washington University – June 2016)
- D.C. Public Charter School wins Green Ribbon Award (WJLA – May 18, 2016)
- Fall Harvest Fun (Let’s Move Blog – Oct. 8, 2015)
- Michelle Obama is joined by elementary school children to help harvest sweet potatoes, carrots and peanuts in the White House vegetable garden (Daily Mail Online – Oct. 7, 2015)
- Events, Expectations Helping High School Students Get to College (U.S. News & World Report – Dec. 8, 2014)
- Michelle Obama joins D.C. students for their march to mail college applications (Washington Post – Dec. 9, 2014)
- Big charter change seen in 2 D.C. schools (Washington Post – Aug. 27, 2014)
- Professor takes part in Food Justice Project for local high school (Georgetown University Medical Center – Mar. 14, 2014)
Top photo of Capital City students courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action