Case Study Of Forming Lives At Santa Fe South Charter Schools

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Forming Lives offers evidence based curriculum nationwide. For the purpose of this grant the focus will remain on one specific school. During the 2017-18 school year Forming Lives began using their curriculum in two test schools (in American). Forming Lives would like to request $20,000 to provide the curriculum for one of the test schools. The school is a local, Oklahoma City, charter school named Santa Fe South.

Santa Fe South Charter School is a collaboration of schools (nine physical locations) providing enhanced educational opportunities in low income neighborhoods and students K-12. Santa Fe South implemented Forming Lives for 2nd and 6th grades. The program experienced such great success that they would like to expand and include Kindergarten-6th grade starting in the 2018-19 school year. Approximately 1,440 students will be impacted by the implementation of Forming Lives at Santa Fe South. The Department of Education says that district E021, of the students attending Santa Fe South 90% are Hispanic and 90% of those students are bi-lingual. This means that many of the students attending Santa Fe South will be first generation college graduates. These are students whose parents often work manual labor jobs that have high risks. Education can empower these children to gain success as adults and break the cycle of poverty. 91% of the …show more content…

Measuring objectives: Forming Lives implemented the use of an online survey platform. The platform tracks teacher’s response to questions based on the specific items listed