Powerful Schools believes minds are forged through a strong school and community partnership. Hawthorne, John Muir, Orca, and Whitworth Elementary Schools have joined with the Mount Baker Community Club and the Columbia City Neighborhood Association to build powerful minds through a series of programs that focus on improving reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Powerful Schools taking today s public schools, and all the problems they face, and turning them into learning centers that produce strong academic achievers. Strengthen neighborhoods through the expanded use of the school resources. Serve as a model for other schools and communities both in Seattle and nation wide.
Innovative programs are the foundation.
It takes a village to raise a child. Powerful Schools recognized that it had change the village before it could help the child. It is changing the way we train teachers, the way parents interact with schools, the way schools interact with the community and the way we evaluate students. And it is doing all these creative programs. Powerful Buddies Powerful Buddies pairs caring adults with at-risk students who can benefit from having positive role models in their lives on a consistent basis.