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Promise Academy
Promise Academy, nominated by EmpowerK12, is an elementary school in Washington, District of Columbia that describes itself as a public charter school serving learners from a primarily urban area.
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KIPP DC Promise Academy has certainly received its share of well-deserved accolades from us as a four-time Bold Performance school, as a National Blue Ribbon school, and one of three schools rated 5-stars (top rating) east of the Anacostia river among DC's poorest neighborhoods. However, I think they definitely should be included on Canopy's list, especially for those individuals looking for strategies to support math growth for low-income Black students in lower elementary grades. Promise's students posted 2019 math achievement rates higher than schools in DC's predominantly white and affluent Ward 3. The team's approach to morning-afternoon split math instruction is fairly novel. Educators teach a lesson in the morning and utilize data from exit tickets to design the afternoon's math activities. The school's extended day and year structure affords the time needed to turn data into action that ultimately closes historic racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps.