Residents Touring Memphis

The residents had the opportunity to see the city with Mr. Charles, the greatest bus driver in Memphis, and Memphis Jones, docent extraordinaire.

The residents visited three ASD Schools, Frayser Elementary, Corning Elementary, and Conerstone Preparatory. After the school tour, residents debriefed the experince led by Nate Monley, Resident Coach.

Here we go again, working together as a team. The ropes course at Brideges allowed everyone to leave their comfort zone and enter, the Stretch Zone.

What a great way to refuel than eating a meal at South of Beale.

This group will be reponsible for children's education in Memphis. TEAM ASPIRE!!!

 
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Aspire Teacher Residents

Next week our teacher residents will be joining us in Memphis to get to know the city. They are spending this year learning from their Mentor teachers. We are so excited to have the opportunity to spend the week with them!

Choose 901

Choose 901 is a great website to learn more about Memphis.  Check it out and let me know what you think! We are partnering with them to plan our trips for Residents to Memphis and to do recruitment.

Countdown

We officially have a countdown clock at EMERGE!!  I can't believe there are only 258 days until we start school next year. Time is flying by!!

Aspire Billboard!

This is a picture of a billboard we have posted in the community to help get the word out!

Community Outreach in Whitehaven

We passed out information at a church in Whitehaven during an event that was promoting voter registeration.  Everyone loved our shirts!

Barbara & Tamara

The last two days we had the fortunate opportunity to spend some time with Barbara Harris, our founding principal for Memphis and Tamara Buckner, our Memphis Principal Resident.  They were here for a quick trip because we had interviews for a grant.  Both Barbara and Tamara had a great time getting to know the other charter leaders and visiting classrooms.  Feel free to ask them about it next time you seen them!

This is a photo of a mural along the Green Line ( my personal Memphis fav!). I forgot to take a picture of Tamara and Barbara this week. :(