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Breakthrough Changed to Pathfinder Hopkins School
After nearly 24 years, Hopkins School has taken the step to disaffiliate from the Breakthrough Collaborative in order to strengthen Hopkins’ ability to provide strong academic opportunities to middle school students and to implement a more traditional approach to teacher training. Concurrent with the disaffiliation, Breakthrough New Haven has been renamed Pathfinder Hopkins School.
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Under the Breakthrough Collaborative model, affiliates are required to employ high school- and college-age students as lead Teaching Fellows and to focus the program on high school as well as middle school students. Pathfinder will now employ professional teachers who will be assisted by the high school- and college-age Teaching Fellows. Pathfinder will also recruit rising 6th graders in order to deepen the program’s role in the academic development of middle school students.
“We believe these two strategies will provide excellent instruction to our students and Teaching Fellows and further ensure the success of our students toward matriculating into college preparatory high schools,” commented Michael Van Leesten, Director of Pathfinder Hopkins School.
For more information, please read the formal announcement from Michael Van Leesten and Dr. Kai Bynum.
For more information, please read the formal announcement from Michael Van Leesten and Dr. Kai Bynum.
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