An update on KIPP North Carolina — and the power of kujichagulia

Citing challenges with turnover in school leadership, enrollment fluctuations, and continuous low performance, KIPP Durham College Prep is undergoing a “re-founding” process, a first of its kind blueprint effort across KIPP.

A newly recruited team of 18 educators are earning salaries between $69,000-$100,000, but those salaries, the website notes, are “commensurate with the difficult work at hand: delivering exceptional Tier 1 lessons daily, creating individualized learning plans for every student in their care, deeply internalizing lessons with colleagues until 5:00 PM daily, creating lasting relationships with students and their families, running Saturday school (select weekends), hosting summer school (select weeks of each summer), and engaging in the transformative work of school turnaround.”

Read the full article here.