One World is proud to have made a difference again this year with its in-school program across the city, afterschool program at UNCF, and an exciting new school-based One World Academy Hub piloted at Friendship Academy SE Middle School in Ward 8. Thank you for supporting our work this year.
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Nekole Smith is an instructional specialist at Friendship SE PCS and led One World’s pilot afterschool Academy Hub there. Ms. Smith’s partnership started a new chapter for One World in Wards 7 and 8.
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Quisan Adams has just graduated from DC International Public Charter School and plans to study computer science in college. We will long remember Quisan for the example he set for all students and his steely determination.
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As One World Education leads the largest writing program in Washington, DC schools for the 9th consecutive year, Capital One is a critical partner. Its associates have served as One World Board members, coaches, technical assistants, and mentors to One World students. Still, if there is one Capital One activity that our students like best, […]
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Adult students from Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School testified last month at DC City Council hearings about the important role that adult education classes have played in their lives. Danielle Noubayamal fled political persecution in Chad. Her first days in the U.S. were difficult “When you don’t have language, your world collapses,” she said. […]
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With 65 students presenting and our largest audience ever of parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and a few young cousins, One World lived up to its reputation as being one of the city’s premier education events. 6th-grader Raegen Coby of Friendship SE PCS silenced the joyful crowd with a stirring account of losing her father for […]
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At a time when so many educator meetings are focused on the persistent learning loss plaguing city schools, the students of Friendship SE Middle School sent a crystal clear message to the city: give us the right opportunities and we will soar. The winners of the April 10th Challenge are:
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It was standing-room only at the One World Academy family orientation last week and our middle school students are now choosing their social justice topics to research. One student is writing about child abuse, having been abused as a child. Another is writing about the pervasive threat of carjacking. She hears her mother’s fear. A […]
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Dressed in his E.L. Haynes HS soccer team t-shirt, 12th-grader Kevin deftly framed one of his biggest concerns for his attentive classmates. Why are European soccer players kings while their American counterparts are merely peasants? Kevin supported his argument with a long list of the highest-paid soccer players from around the world. He had one […]
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