When Mariyam Salley first moved from New York to New Orleans nine years ago to teach at Crescent City Schools, becoming a principal wasn’t part of her plan. “I had never even seen myself past being an excellent teacher,” Salley reflects. “I wanted to be the best teacher for kids.”
Harriet Tubman’s music program has grown fast in the last six years, involving around 500 students across elementary and middle school. Third and fourth grade students all take elementary music together, while the fifth through eighth graders can choose to participate in either a brass band or drumline. Through these music programs, Tubman staff member…
In late 2023, Adam Lownik was introduced to a new project that aimed to change how the school approached reading intervention – a partnership with Amira Learning, a program that uses artificial intelligence to help students improve their reading fluency. As the Director of Intervention with eleven years of teaching at Tubman under his belt,…
Tubman female scholars take a leadership role introducing the wonders of science to GiST participants.
Recently, young men from Harriet Tubman Charter School spent a Saturday on Tulane’s campus for Boys at Tulane in STEM (BATS).
In 2011 when Crescent City Schools assumed operations of Harriet Tubman Charter School, it was a persistently failing school. In less than two years,
