Launching Dearborn’s Career Pathways Program

By Kristen Almquist-Cevallos and Jesse Solomon

*Originally featured in ASCD Express’ “Ideas From the Field” Volume 14 | Issue 29*

Most of us who are engaged in high school education would agree that a critical component of our job is to prepare students for college and career. The phrase “college and career” has been…

Announcing Career Pathways at Dearborn STEM

We are so incredibly fortunate at the Dearborn STEM Early College Academy that we were able to move into a brand new $72M school building that was intentionally designed and built for STEM learning this year.  This was all made possible because of the vision of the City of Boston and Boston Public Schools and…

Dearborn Supports Undocumented Students and Families

Teaching is a Political Act

Jesse Solomon, Executive Director, BPE

Believe it or not, it’s almost October. It feels like we just started school, and there are leaves on the ground. Our schools are off to a great start — students and teachers digging into their work together, a nice hum of activity.

As we launch this new school year…

Jamie Lyon, BTR graduate, cohort 14

Jamie Lyon

BTR cohort 14

Good evening all, my name is Jamie Lyon and I am a graduating member of the 14th Boston Teacher Residency Cohort.  This past year I’ve been teaching with my Coordinating Teacher, the wonderful Danielle Hughes, in 6th and 7th grade science classrooms at Dearborn STEM Academy while studying with my…

Orlanda Dos Santos, Dearborn’s Salutatorian, Class of 2017

Orlanda Dos Santos

Salutatorian, Class of 2017

Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here tonight to celebrate the first graduating class of Dearborn STEM Academy.

I moved to United States from Praia, the capital of Cape Verde two days after I turned 10 years old. I had just completed 4th…

Students in computer science class

Redesigning School for the 21st Century

Jesse Solomon

Executive Director, BPE

Welcome to our new website!

We at the Boston Plan for Excellence have launched a new website to reflect the culmination of an organizational shift we have been navigating for the past few years.  In September of 2016, we achieved our goal of creating a full PreK-12 pathway of…