February 27, 2025 • 31 mins
City Charter High School is a technology infused public school, whose mission is to graduate students who are academically, technologically, personally and socially prepared to succeed in post-secondary education, training, or employment.
Using a team approach, City High cultivates a safe, supportive and academically rigorous environment by recognizing and nurturing individual talents, needs and skills.
Using a team approach, City High cultivates a safe, supportive and academically rigorous environment by recognizing and nurturing individual talents, needs and skills.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
the light on the interest, issues and concerns of the
greater Pittsburgh area. Good morning, My name is Johnny heart Well,
your host and my guest in studio is Angie Welch,
chief academic Officer of City High Charter. Good morning, Thank
you for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All Right, So I had the pleasure of meeting doctor
Allan probably six months ago. So I got you know,
I was told what exactly City High does and what
they do in the innovations. And you know, my family,
my father was a teacher, my mother was a teacher,
my grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher.
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My best friends a teacher. So I'm a I you know,
I'm a you know, I'm a fan, you know. I mean,
I also know it's very difficult, but I also believe
that the education system needs to be more innovative. And
when I found it, when doctor Allen talk to me
about what you guys do, I was like, you are
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onto something. So for people who aren't familiar with City High,
tell us everything we need to know about the institution.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Sure, well that's a lot. Actually we got.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
All the time in the world, Angie, can you tell
us what we need to know?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So some of the things that I always tell people
about City High. First of all, we are a high
school in downtown Pittsburgh. We serve students in the Pittsburgh
area and surrounding communities ninth through twelfth grade, and we
take We are a first come, first serve high school
where students can sign up. There's no criteria where public
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open enrollment, and so we take students from anywhere. Any
anyone that's interested can come to our school. It's a
basic application process, but there's no criteria. And I think
that's important for people to know, is that if you're
looking for an option outside of your regular district, we're
an option for you for high school. And so I
always encourage people to look at more information regarding our
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school because there are a lot of things that we
have to offer that some high schools don't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
All Right, what are some of the innovative things that
you guys are doing.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, there's a long list, but I will I will
mention a few and then we can go on from
there in terms of what you find most interesting. So
we obviously are on We're a looping school. So that
means that the teachers that work with students when they
come in in ninth or tenth grade, those are the
teachers that work with those students through the rest of
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their history at City High. So if they start in
ninth grade, those teachers move with them to tenth grade,
eleventh grade, and twelfth grade.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And what is the advantage of that in your mind?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, a lot. First of all, they get to know
your student or your child gets to know their teachers
really well, and the teachers really get to know the
student and their families. And we have a lot of
siblings and cousins and relatives come to City High. So
everything's interconnected and everyone knows each other. It's a big family.
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We like to say.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The other thing that I always say, well, a couple things. First,
if you're a special education teacher, and so I'm a
special education teacher at heart, that's where I've started my career.
You don't have to relearn or learn a new student
each year. You get your students, you know what their
disability is, you know what they need, you know their strengths,
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their needs, and their weaknesses, and you follow them year
to year and so you don't have to relearn that.
You know that. So when a kid comes back the
following year in tenth grade, eleventh grade, there's none of
that learning process. I already know what you need and
I know what your skills are. So we're going to
hit the ground running the first day of school. Same
thing with the regular ED teachers. They already know who
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you are. Ninth grade is learning who each other, who
the teacher is, who the student is. And so once
you know each other and you know each other's families
and you know the situation, you can pick up too. Yes, yes,
what they're doing long term, what they want to be,
what they want to do, and so that is something
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that first day of school. You hit the ground running
and you don't have to relearn, reteach, get to know people.
This second year, everyone knows each other, hit the ground
running with learning.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
All right. I don't want to get too far in
the interview without mentioning the open house, so that is
coming up on March twenty second.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
March twenty second, Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And tell us what that is and how do they
sign up?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Sure, So we open the doors to the public and
basically say here's our school and take a look around.
This is what we have to offer everyone. And then
also you get to meet the staff, so anything from
the school administrators to anyone who works in the cafeteria,
to the teachers who teach specific content areas, and basically
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you could take a look a look around free reign.
You can even talk to students. They'll walk you around
and give you like the real deal on what it
means to go to City High and you can learn
about all the content, meet people. It's just a really
welcoming environment. If you're considering another high school in Pittsburgh,
come check us out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
All right, So, if somebody wants more information on the
open house, what is your website?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So it is www dot City high dot org.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right. We talked a little bit about the advantages
of the loop program. Having a teacher start with the
student ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth grade, and your success rate
is amazing. You have ninety four percent graduation rate, which
if you know anything about some of the Pittsburgh schools,
that is insane. That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, it is. The Other thing I'll mention on top
of that is that when our students leave us, we
have a post high school planning office and an internship office,
and so every kid has to complete an internship, a
thirteen week internship to graduate wait from City High. And
then the other thing that's really important is that every
student must have a plan when they leave high school.
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So you cannot leave high school without knowing what you're
going to do next. So if you want to go
to college, if you're interested in going to work, military
or training school, we have posts high school planning counselors
that meet with you individually and they just do that
so that you have a plan for life after you
leave your four years at high school.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And what's the advantage of that, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's hard to be a teenager these days, and there
are so many options and so many jobs in so
many careers, and so these transition managers really help kids
narrow down what they like to do and how what
they want to do when they leave school. And so
you can't leave high school and basically say, oh, I'm
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just I'll figure it out, I'll figure it out in September,
I'll figure it out when I get there, or I'm
not really sure what I'm going to do. If you
don't have a plan, you tend to not do anything.
And so if you have a plan leaving us, you're
more likely to have a plan for life and get
started sooner. And so you're not sitting around figuring out
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what you're going to do in a couple months.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're putting you're putting a certain amount of expectations on
these kids. They need to have come up with a
plan of what they it doesn't have they don't have to,
you know, you know, be rocket scientists, right, you know,
but they should have some sort of direction, And you
offer that as a requirement. Absolutely, yes, you also have
and this is totally unique. A four day class week.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, students go to school Tuesday through Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Now, why is that? What's the advantage?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So we we think back to COVID times, which you know,
I don't love to think back to that time because
it was really hard for the world.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, but also.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Extremely hard for educators because they were expected to do
everything and be everything through a computer and that's just
not realistic. So coming back to a five day school
week or a work week, that seems pretty that seemed
pretty difficult to us. And so coming off of the
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pandemic from kids coming from being at home, we thought,
are what's a way that we can ease into this
And one of the school administrators had been thinking about
a four day school week before, and so coming off
of the pandemic, we thought this would be a good
time to try this. Kids have been home for maybe
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two years and they're coming to us for the first
time from working on computers and being at home all day.
So let's propose this opportunity that we have. Take the
opportunity while we have it and see if we could
implement the four day school week. Realize, we go to school,
kids are in school from seven to fifty am through
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three forty pm, so we do have a longer school day,
so they're in school for more hours than a traditional
high school student. So we propose this. The school administrator
who worked on this, she did a lot of research.
They're honor a lot of schools that do this, but
we took an opportunity when we had it, and so
we implemented it, and so far it's going really well
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and the kids love it because they have an extra
day off for the weekend, but it also provides them
opportunities to travel, work an extra day, or participate in programs.
So we have a program that we're running, and sometimes
that program runs on the days that we're off on Mondays,
and so that's an opportunity for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You give it an example of a program where you know,
somebody goes, you know, a student goes Tuesday through Friday,
but they do some sort of special program on Mondays.
What would that What give us an idea of what
that program might be?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Right? So they can go to work. A lot of
our kids are kids work. Some of our younger kids
they participate in what we call four plus activities, and
four plus is the day that we use for professional
development for teachers, but also teachers offer activities, so it
could be anything, and these are more social activities focused
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on building community at school. So they start off by
having pizza at school around lunchtime, and then they meet
up with their teachers and they do anything from playing
five on five basketball at the local gym to baking cookies.
We even did something for Black History Month where we
had a soul food lunch in a movie. So it
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really depends on what the teachers offer, but it gives
an opportunity for kids to come into school and build
a community. Students also can go to their internship, or
they can participate in activities such as our Leap program
and that's something that happens sometimes on Saturdays or Mondays
for the seniors.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
All right, what is e LEAP program?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So the LEAD program is a program for students who
are interested in the arts and humanities. There are a
lot of opportunities for students who are interested in math
and science to go into various programs, but there are
less opportunities for kids who are interested in humanities and arts.
And basically they surround themselves with people from CMU and
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they learn things such as social justice, being a representative
representative in your community activism, but also they do that
through the arts and the humanities lens.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right, So this is something that you know, a
public school doesn't necessarily offer a lot of students. So
this is another reason why City High Charter is very unique.
We're talking with Angie Welch, chief academic officer at the
City High Charter. What is your role at the school?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
My role right now is the chief academic officer and
that's a new role for me. I previously was an
assistant principal and I moved into this role simply because
there are a lot of student services that we offer
at our school, and we also need someone to oversee
all of the curriculum. And so basically I take care
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of our programs involving Title I English learners and our
students with disabilities are special ed programming, and then I
oversee all of the curriculum. That's a lot of hats.
It is a lot. I am busy, but you know
what it is, it's interconnected. Everything runs into each other,
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and so I feel like I have a good grasp
on what goes on at City High, and so I
really do enjoy my job.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
How many students do you have at City High right now?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We have over five hundred and fifty students. We do
range because we are an open enrollment school, so kids
sometimes leave and then sometimes we gain students. At full capacity,
we're over six hundred and how many teachers right now?
We have about ninety four staff in the building and
we have about seventy teachers. And I love our teachers.
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They work so hard. I know every teacher in the
world works hard, but our teachers work super hard at
City High.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Do they have a certain passion for what they do?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, they have a passion, but also I feel like
they are challenged daily between serving students, fulfilling the needs
from the state and the government for curriculum, and they
are also they care deeply about students and their advisors
to these students, and so they oftentimes facilitate what's happening
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at school to home and what's happening at home to school,
and they support parents and the students and families. And
so there's a lot of pressure for teachers in the world,
but I think because they're so dedicated to the kids
and they loop with the kids, it's even more intense
because they've been with students for four years by the
time they graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, if you're tuning in, looping is kind of a
philosophy that the teachers move from grade to grade from ninth, tenth, eleventh,
twelfth grade as the student matures, right, And so you
really get a deep relationship with some of those teachers,
you know, nitty.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Gritty things of students and you know how they click.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, not all students and teachers may click. You have
the opportunity to maybe change a teacher if that's you know,
if that's a circumstance.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Right, So here's my oh, This is what I always
say to students. If you're in my office and you
say I don't really like this teacher, I go on
this spiel about, well, I may not like everyone I
work with, or you may not like everyone at your job,
but would you quit your job because you don't like someone?
And immediately the students like, oh, no, that's my paycheck,
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and I say, yeah, well you're our paycheck. Here is
your diploma. So how are we going to figure this out?
Because in life, I'm not going to be there someday
They're going to have to do this on their own.
So I work with a teacher, I work with a student.
We come together and we figure out a way to
work through it. We don't have to like each other,
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but we do have to work together. And so our
goal at City High is how do you figure this
out with support so that when you're older, you can
do this with a boss you may not like, or
with a family member you don't like. How do you
work through this, you know, as a young adult, without
the support of people. And so we don't switch teachers,
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we don't switch advisors. We figure it out and we
learn how to get along with people, even though we
may not necessarily like or love them.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Again, you have the the open house coming up on
March twenty second, tell us everything we need to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Know, absolutely. So open house is a time where we
open our doors to our building. You can come talk
to teachers, to students, to administrators, you can talk to
anyone in the building and basically get the down low
on what City High has to offer high school kids
in Pittsburgh. So please come and talk and take a
look at what we have to offer. And if you
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can't visit us that day, reach out to us. Call
us at the school, look at our website. You can
reach out to our admissions director and she will she
can give you a tour. There are many options if
you can't come and see us on March twenty second.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
All right, so this is student's ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth.
So you're looking for eighth graders that are in school
this year that may be interested in enrolling next year.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Right, So we're looking at night graders.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Or ninth graders who are interested in enrolling in tenth grade.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Correct, If there are ninth graders out there who don't
know about our school and are interested or are not
happy with their current school. Come take a look, have
a conversation with us.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
All right. We talked about some of the innovations that
chart City High offers, a four day school week, the looping,
which is teachers staying with the students through pretty much
their entire academic career. But when it comes down to
City High, secret sauce, what makes you different than other
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charter schools?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Wow? Okay, So I think I can talk a lot
about the differences. I will sort of take the direction
of some of our curriculum that we've been doing since
day one, since the door's open. So the founders of
the school, which they are great mentors, I was able
to work with them the first couple of years I
worked at City High and into my early principal career.
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They believe that all kids should have access to curriculum.
It shouldn't just be that certain kids, because you're more intelligent,
have access to this curriculum, but other kids who maybe
struggle or need support have only access to another curriculum.
And so they believe that everyone should have access to
things like financial literacy, computers, technology, and so one of
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the things that we have offered at City High is
career and financial literacy courses, and that is not typical
of most high schools in the region. So right now,
if anyone pays attention to Pennsylvania state law, they are
asking that by next year everyone in Pennsylvania graduates with
a financial literacy credit. Well, we've been offering financial financial
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literacy at City High since two thousand and two, and
so we don't need to offer that because we already
offer that for all students. And so that's really important
to us that our kids are coming to us and
they're figuring out, Hey, I want to know what my
career will be someday. I need to explore that how
I'm going to get there, and then also how do
I manage my finances everything from managing their bank account,
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having a bank account, managing what it's like to own
a car, or having cit cards and just they're monthly,
like the money that's coming in and the money that's
going out, budgeting.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And so and that's something that I did not was not,
you know, exposed to in high school. Right I'm not
even sure I do it right now.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's a lot of people can say that, yes, absolutely,
But when our kids leave us and then they reach
out to teachers, afterwards, they'll say, this teacher really taught
me what I needed to know about credit cards, and
so I don't have credit cards. I pay with cash
for everything. Or I really know how to budget my
monthly income and so that I never run out. I
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always pay rent things like that, and so that's really important.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What kind of students are you looking for.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We're looking for any students. Any student who wants to
come to City High. Come to City High and check
us out. I think if you're interested in technology, I
think if you're interested in business and planning for your
future careers, you should come to City High. You love reading,
and you are really interested in art and history, those
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are things that we offer at City High. We have
cultural literacy where you learn English and history at the
same time. And so I think if you're not happy
or you don't know where to go to school, at
least come and have a conversation and see what we're
all about, because you may find something that is unique
that works for any student in the Pittsburgh area.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So check out the open house coming up on March
twenty second. What's the website again?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It is www dot Cityhigh dot org.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you offer any other academic classes that are unique
or maybe unique to city high something that you are
trying to introduce. Do you have any of you have
classes that are maybe different that you want to looking
to build.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, I think we're always trying to build our technology
courses because technology is changing so fast. So we've been
talking lately about the use of AI and high schools
and how do you use AI properly and as teachers,
how much do you promote AI because we want, obviously
students to do their their work themselves. But the reality
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is a lot of students are they are being introduced
to AI and help and trying to figure out how
that helps them in the future.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I think we're all trying to figure out you're right, you're.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Right, you're right. And the other thing is with the technology.
While it does change, we do offer a lot of
courses in Microsoft Word and Excel and Access and then
the Adobe Suite and then even programming, so I think,
you know, staying up to date on that and offering
those courses for students so that if they do go
into that career field, they are up to date and
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they can maybe skip some entry level college courses and
move on to the tougher stuff, and so I think
that's something that we're keeping our eye on. The Other
thing that I'll mention, our math curriculum is very collaborative.
So you're not going to find a traditional math course
at city high where you just work on problems and
you work independently. Our math and science curriculum really forces
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you to work with a group of people and to
figure out how to work with people long term. So
you work with students, other students in the classroom, and
some students may be a higher level than you or
a lower level, and how do you all work together
to solve a math problem.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You mentioned earlier about internships. My high school back in
the day didn't offer any kind of internships. I didn't
even know what an internship was until I went to college.
So what kind of internships are offered or what's the
what's the idea behind what you're able to offer?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So I think the idea is that kids get out
of our building and they work with other people in
the work force and they get to see, day to day,
hands down, what it looks like to work in the
career field that they're interested in. And so some kids
love it and they they're like, yes, I want to
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work in this in this area.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And you also make fun.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
When they find out, they say, oh, I never want
to do that again after these thirteen weeks. I didn't
know that's what that entailed. So I think it's really
good for kids to get out of the building because
it's good for them to have mentors in other places.
And then also they find out some things about the
jobs that they thought were really great or not so great,
or they find out like, hey, I was really good
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at this skill. Why was that my internship. I didn't
know I was good at this until someone asked me
to do this, and now I really want to do
this for a living. So there it's a thirteen week
experience where they eat lunch at school and then for
the second half of the day they sign out and
they go to technically like their internship or their job.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Us give us some examples of maybe some interns internships
that they've you've been offered.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yes, so that's a really good question. So we have
kids going to Bot's IQ and they work with robots,
so they program robots and they and they work with
that company, and we also have a robotics team. But
that's another side note. They work with robots and computers
and programming, and so they really like that because that's
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really the tech field and they can even obviously like
they can go into many fields when you when you
talk about robotics. We have kids that work in the
medical field, so they go to UPMC facility and whether
they are working on a hospital floor or volunteering with patients,
or they could also work in a nursing home and
they can find out what that area of nursing is like.
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We have students that also more technology based or engineering base,
go to firms downtown so they leave school and they
can just walk to their internship and some kids take
the bus. Let's see, we have we have internships with attorneys,
with one of the local hotels. For the service industry.
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There's a lot to choose from and it can be
anywhere from like a nonprofit to a for profit corporation.
And so we're always looking for internships. So even if
you're not looking for, you know, a high school, we're
always looking for internship host sites to take some of
our students.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right, yeah, real world experience, it's so invaluable, all right.
So the City High Charter open house is coming up
on March twenty second. Again, tell us everything we need
to know about the event.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, so open doors for anyone thinking you know what
to do after eighth grade looking at high school options.
Come and listen and talk to teachers about our curriculum,
what our school day is, what our four week model,
a four day model each week has to offer. And
also get to talk to students and like I said,
they'll give you the real deal on what it's like
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to be a student at Citi High.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, Once again, the website.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is www dot cityhig dot org.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
All right, we only have a few minutes left, so
let's kind of recap everything that we talk about we thought.
All right, tell us everything we need to know about
City High.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
First of all, yes, we are an open public charter
school looking to take students for a wonderful high school experience,
a community where people are welcomed, loved and cared for
throughout high school. And so we take any student in
the Pittsburgh area or surrounding communities. And so I really
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am asking that if you're thinking about where you're going
to go to high school or send your child to
high school, come see us and have a conversation and
learn about us before you make any decisions for ninth.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Grade, and once again kind of give us an overview
of some of the innovations that City High offers.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Absolutely one to one computing, every student has their laptop,
access to all courses technology, financial literacy, culture literacy, and
also post high school planning internships and a plan for
the future.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And also looping us about some of the things that
right maping.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So the teachers that you start with in ninth or
tenth grade are those teachers that are going to follow
you through your high school career, and so it turns
into more of a family and everyone knows everything about
each other so that you have a good high school experience.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
In the four day classroom school.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Four day school week, four day work week.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, do you go all summer long? Do you go?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
We do go through July? Yes. Okay, so instead of
having three summer months off, we have our months off December, April,
and August. And so we always say, work really hard
for three months, you get a month off. You work
hard for three months, you get a month off. And
so yes, while you're in school during the summer. Guess what, students,
most people work year round, and so we're practicing for life.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right. So as an institution, what is City High's
biggest challenge, our biggest challenge. Well, that's a tough question.
So I think we could do you think people are
familiar with City High.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't think they are. I think that the people
that are aware of City High are people that are
looking for other options for high school, but they're not
necessarily knowing where to look or that there are options.
So sometimes people feel stuck and they feel like there's
the only option is their district, when that's not the case.
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And so I think, you know, making sure we get
out there and we talk to people, and we talk
to families, and we we market ourselves well, I think
that is a big piece of this, to make sure
people know that we exist.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You have a ninety four percent graduation rate, which is
which is which is amazing. So people who do enroll,
do they become fans of City High?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, they become fans, and so do their families. Oftentimes
we get one we get one child, and then we
see their siblings come along, and then we see their
cousins and then we know so like you know, I
know someone's grandma because I had someone else and then
they had children and then their children came.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So they'll say, oh missus, welch like remember so and
so that's that's my aunt. And she told me I
needed to come here, and she told me to ask
for you. And so it's really cool because we seem
to like know a lot of families and that's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So again, what is your biggest challenge?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So our biggest challenge, I think is, you know, finding
teachers because right now, teachers are hard to come by
in the not just in Pennsylvania, in the world. It's
hard to find teachers. And so that's with any school.
And then also I think our.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Go ahead, I bet it's specifically harder to find teachers
from your school because you have so many innovation ideas.
You need almost a teacher with a calling.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yes, yes, because you're If you're a teacher and you loop,
you don't teach the same content every year, and that's hard.
So if you teach math, you teach algebra one, algebra two, geometry,
a little bit of trig some calculus, and not every
teacher wants to do.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But the advantages you have some amazing teachers don't you
absolutely all right? Well, our time is up, so if
you're interested in the open house, make sure you check
out all the information at cityhigh dot org. That cityhigh
dot org. Angie Welch, Chief academic academic Officer, it's been
a pleasure. Thank you so much. Thank you so much
much for your time. As always, if you have any comments, concerns,
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or an idea for a future program, please email us
from this radio station's website. I'm Johnny Heartwell, thank you
so much for listening.
And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
the light on the interest, issues and concerns of the
greater Pittsburgh area. Good morning, My name is Johnny heart Well,
your host and my guest in studio is Angie Welch,
chief academic Officer of City High Charter. Good morning, Thank
you for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All Right, So I had the pleasure of meeting doctor
Allan probably six months ago. So I got you know,
I was told what exactly City High does and what
they do in the innovations. And you know, my family,
my father was a teacher, my mother was a teacher,
my grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher.
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My best friends a teacher. So I'm a I you know,
I'm a you know, I'm a fan, you know. I mean,
I also know it's very difficult, but I also believe
that the education system needs to be more innovative. And
when I found it, when doctor Allen talk to me
about what you guys do, I was like, you are
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onto something. So for people who aren't familiar with City High,
tell us everything we need to know about the institution.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Sure, well that's a lot. Actually we got.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
All the time in the world, Angie, can you tell
us what we need to know?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So some of the things that I always tell people
about City High. First of all, we are a high
school in downtown Pittsburgh. We serve students in the Pittsburgh
area and surrounding communities ninth through twelfth grade, and we
take We are a first come, first serve high school
where students can sign up. There's no criteria where public
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open enrollment, and so we take students from anywhere. Any
anyone that's interested can come to our school. It's a
basic application process, but there's no criteria. And I think
that's important for people to know, is that if you're
looking for an option outside of your regular district, we're
an option for you for high school. And so I
always encourage people to look at more information regarding our
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school because there are a lot of things that we
have to offer that some high schools don't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
All Right, what are some of the innovative things that
you guys are doing.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, there's a long list, but I will I will
mention a few and then we can go on from
there in terms of what you find most interesting. So
we obviously are on We're a looping school. So that
means that the teachers that work with students when they
come in in ninth or tenth grade, those are the
teachers that work with those students through the rest of
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their history at City High. So if they start in
ninth grade, those teachers move with them to tenth grade,
eleventh grade, and twelfth grade.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And what is the advantage of that in your mind?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, a lot. First of all, they get to know
your student or your child gets to know their teachers
really well, and the teachers really get to know the
student and their families. And we have a lot of
siblings and cousins and relatives come to City High. So
everything's interconnected and everyone knows each other. It's a big family.
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We like to say.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The other thing that I always say, well, a couple things. First,
if you're a special education teacher, and so I'm a
special education teacher at heart, that's where I've started my career.
You don't have to relearn or learn a new student
each year. You get your students, you know what their
disability is, you know what they need, you know their strengths,
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their needs, and their weaknesses, and you follow them year
to year and so you don't have to relearn that.
You know that. So when a kid comes back the
following year in tenth grade, eleventh grade, there's none of
that learning process. I already know what you need and
I know what your skills are. So we're going to
hit the ground running the first day of school. Same
thing with the regular ED teachers. They already know who
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you are. Ninth grade is learning who each other, who
the teacher is, who the student is. And so once
you know each other and you know each other's families
and you know the situation, you can pick up too. Yes, yes,
what they're doing long term, what they want to be,
what they want to do, and so that is something
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that first day of school. You hit the ground running
and you don't have to relearn, reteach, get to know people.
This second year, everyone knows each other, hit the ground
running with learning.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
All right. I don't want to get too far in
the interview without mentioning the open house, so that is
coming up on March twenty second.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
March twenty second, Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And tell us what that is and how do they
sign up?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Sure, So we open the doors to the public and
basically say here's our school and take a look around.
This is what we have to offer everyone. And then
also you get to meet the staff, so anything from
the school administrators to anyone who works in the cafeteria,
to the teachers who teach specific content areas, and basically
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you could take a look a look around free reign.
You can even talk to students. They'll walk you around
and give you like the real deal on what it
means to go to City High and you can learn
about all the content, meet people. It's just a really
welcoming environment. If you're considering another high school in Pittsburgh,
come check us out.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
All right, So, if somebody wants more information on the
open house, what is your website?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So it is www dot City high dot org.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right. We talked a little bit about the advantages
of the loop program. Having a teacher start with the
student ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth grade, and your success rate
is amazing. You have ninety four percent graduation rate, which
if you know anything about some of the Pittsburgh schools,
that is insane. That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, it is. The Other thing I'll mention on top
of that is that when our students leave us, we
have a post high school planning office and an internship office,
and so every kid has to complete an internship, a
thirteen week internship to graduate wait from City High. And
then the other thing that's really important is that every
student must have a plan when they leave high school.
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So you cannot leave high school without knowing what you're
going to do next. So if you want to go
to college, if you're interested in going to work, military
or training school, we have posts high school planning counselors
that meet with you individually and they just do that
so that you have a plan for life after you
leave your four years at high school.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And what's the advantage of that, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's hard to be a teenager these days, and there
are so many options and so many jobs in so
many careers, and so these transition managers really help kids
narrow down what they like to do and how what
they want to do when they leave school. And so
you can't leave high school and basically say, oh, I'm
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just I'll figure it out, I'll figure it out in September,
I'll figure it out when I get there, or I'm
not really sure what I'm going to do. If you
don't have a plan, you tend to not do anything.
And so if you have a plan leaving us, you're
more likely to have a plan for life and get
started sooner. And so you're not sitting around figuring out
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what you're going to do in a couple months.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're putting you're putting a certain amount of expectations on
these kids. They need to have come up with a
plan of what they it doesn't have they don't have to,
you know, you know, be rocket scientists, right, you know,
but they should have some sort of direction, And you
offer that as a requirement. Absolutely, yes, you also have
and this is totally unique. A four day class week.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, students go to school Tuesday through Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Now, why is that? What's the advantage?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So we we think back to COVID times, which you know,
I don't love to think back to that time because
it was really hard for the world.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, but also.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Extremely hard for educators because they were expected to do
everything and be everything through a computer and that's just
not realistic. So coming back to a five day school
week or a work week, that seems pretty that seemed
pretty difficult to us. And so coming off of the
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pandemic from kids coming from being at home, we thought,
are what's a way that we can ease into this
And one of the school administrators had been thinking about
a four day school week before, and so coming off
of the pandemic, we thought this would be a good
time to try this. Kids have been home for maybe
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two years and they're coming to us for the first
time from working on computers and being at home all day.
So let's propose this opportunity that we have. Take the
opportunity while we have it and see if we could
implement the four day school week. Realize, we go to school,
kids are in school from seven to fifty am through
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three forty pm, so we do have a longer school day,
so they're in school for more hours than a traditional
high school student. So we propose this. The school administrator
who worked on this, she did a lot of research.
They're honor a lot of schools that do this, but
we took an opportunity when we had it, and so
we implemented it, and so far it's going really well
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and the kids love it because they have an extra
day off for the weekend, but it also provides them
opportunities to travel, work an extra day, or participate in programs.
So we have a program that we're running, and sometimes
that program runs on the days that we're off on Mondays,
and so that's an opportunity for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You give it an example of a program where you know,
somebody goes, you know, a student goes Tuesday through Friday,
but they do some sort of special program on Mondays.
What would that What give us an idea of what
that program might be?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Right? So they can go to work. A lot of
our kids are kids work. Some of our younger kids
they participate in what we call four plus activities, and
four plus is the day that we use for professional
development for teachers, but also teachers offer activities, so it
could be anything, and these are more social activities focused
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on building community at school. So they start off by
having pizza at school around lunchtime, and then they meet
up with their teachers and they do anything from playing
five on five basketball at the local gym to baking cookies.
We even did something for Black History Month where we
had a soul food lunch in a movie. So it
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really depends on what the teachers offer, but it gives
an opportunity for kids to come into school and build
a community. Students also can go to their internship, or
they can participate in activities such as our Leap program
and that's something that happens sometimes on Saturdays or Mondays
for the seniors.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
All right, what is e LEAP program?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So the LEAD program is a program for students who
are interested in the arts and humanities. There are a
lot of opportunities for students who are interested in math
and science to go into various programs, but there are
less opportunities for kids who are interested in humanities and arts.
And basically they surround themselves with people from CMU and
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they learn things such as social justice, being a representative
representative in your community activism, but also they do that
through the arts and the humanities lens.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right, So this is something that you know, a
public school doesn't necessarily offer a lot of students. So
this is another reason why City High Charter is very unique.
We're talking with Angie Welch, chief academic officer at the
City High Charter. What is your role at the school?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
My role right now is the chief academic officer and
that's a new role for me. I previously was an
assistant principal and I moved into this role simply because
there are a lot of student services that we offer
at our school, and we also need someone to oversee
all of the curriculum. And so basically I take care
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of our programs involving Title I English learners and our
students with disabilities are special ed programming, and then I
oversee all of the curriculum. That's a lot of hats.
It is a lot. I am busy, but you know
what it is, it's interconnected. Everything runs into each other,
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and so I feel like I have a good grasp
on what goes on at City High, and so I
really do enjoy my job.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
How many students do you have at City High right now?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We have over five hundred and fifty students. We do
range because we are an open enrollment school, so kids
sometimes leave and then sometimes we gain students. At full capacity,
we're over six hundred and how many teachers right now?
We have about ninety four staff in the building and
we have about seventy teachers. And I love our teachers.
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They work so hard. I know every teacher in the
world works hard, but our teachers work super hard at
City High.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Do they have a certain passion for what they do?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, they have a passion, but also I feel like
they are challenged daily between serving students, fulfilling the needs
from the state and the government for curriculum, and they
are also they care deeply about students and their advisors
to these students, and so they oftentimes facilitate what's happening
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at school to home and what's happening at home to school,
and they support parents and the students and families. And
so there's a lot of pressure for teachers in the world,
but I think because they're so dedicated to the kids
and they loop with the kids, it's even more intense
because they've been with students for four years by the
time they graduate.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, if you're tuning in, looping is kind of a
philosophy that the teachers move from grade to grade from ninth, tenth, eleventh,
twelfth grade as the student matures, right, And so you
really get a deep relationship with some of those teachers,
you know, nitty.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Gritty things of students and you know how they click.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, not all students and teachers may click. You have
the opportunity to maybe change a teacher if that's you know,
if that's a circumstance.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Right, So here's my oh, This is what I always
say to students. If you're in my office and you
say I don't really like this teacher, I go on
this spiel about, well, I may not like everyone I
work with, or you may not like everyone at your job,
but would you quit your job because you don't like someone?
And immediately the students like, oh, no, that's my paycheck,
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and I say, yeah, well you're our paycheck. Here is
your diploma. So how are we going to figure this out?
Because in life, I'm not going to be there someday
They're going to have to do this on their own.
So I work with a teacher, I work with a student.
We come together and we figure out a way to
work through it. We don't have to like each other,
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but we do have to work together. And so our
goal at City High is how do you figure this
out with support so that when you're older, you can
do this with a boss you may not like, or
with a family member you don't like. How do you
work through this, you know, as a young adult, without
the support of people. And so we don't switch teachers,
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we don't switch advisors. We figure it out and we
learn how to get along with people, even though we
may not necessarily like or love them.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Again, you have the the open house coming up on
March twenty second, tell us everything we need to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Know, absolutely. So open house is a time where we
open our doors to our building. You can come talk
to teachers, to students, to administrators, you can talk to
anyone in the building and basically get the down low
on what City High has to offer high school kids
in Pittsburgh. So please come and talk and take a
look at what we have to offer. And if you
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can't visit us that day, reach out to us. Call
us at the school, look at our website. You can
reach out to our admissions director and she will she
can give you a tour. There are many options if
you can't come and see us on March twenty second.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
All right, so this is student's ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth.
So you're looking for eighth graders that are in school
this year that may be interested in enrolling next year.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Right, So we're looking at night graders.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Or ninth graders who are interested in enrolling in tenth grade.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Correct, If there are ninth graders out there who don't
know about our school and are interested or are not
happy with their current school. Come take a look, have
a conversation with us.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
All right. We talked about some of the innovations that
chart City High offers, a four day school week, the looping,
which is teachers staying with the students through pretty much
their entire academic career. But when it comes down to
City High, secret sauce, what makes you different than other
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charter schools?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Wow? Okay, So I think I can talk a lot
about the differences. I will sort of take the direction
of some of our curriculum that we've been doing since
day one, since the door's open. So the founders of
the school, which they are great mentors, I was able
to work with them the first couple of years I
worked at City High and into my early principal career.
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They believe that all kids should have access to curriculum.
It shouldn't just be that certain kids, because you're more intelligent,
have access to this curriculum, but other kids who maybe
struggle or need support have only access to another curriculum.
And so they believe that everyone should have access to
things like financial literacy, computers, technology, and so one of
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the things that we have offered at City High is
career and financial literacy courses, and that is not typical
of most high schools in the region. So right now,
if anyone pays attention to Pennsylvania state law, they are
asking that by next year everyone in Pennsylvania graduates with
a financial literacy credit. Well, we've been offering financial financial
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literacy at City High since two thousand and two, and
so we don't need to offer that because we already
offer that for all students. And so that's really important
to us that our kids are coming to us and
they're figuring out, Hey, I want to know what my
career will be someday. I need to explore that how
I'm going to get there, and then also how do
I manage my finances everything from managing their bank account,
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having a bank account, managing what it's like to own
a car, or having cit cards and just they're monthly,
like the money that's coming in and the money that's
going out, budgeting.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And so and that's something that I did not was not,
you know, exposed to in high school. Right I'm not
even sure I do it right now.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's a lot of people can say that, yes, absolutely,
But when our kids leave us and then they reach
out to teachers, afterwards, they'll say, this teacher really taught
me what I needed to know about credit cards, and
so I don't have credit cards. I pay with cash
for everything. Or I really know how to budget my
monthly income and so that I never run out. I
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always pay rent things like that, and so that's really important.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What kind of students are you looking for.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We're looking for any students. Any student who wants to
come to City High. Come to City High and check
us out. I think if you're interested in technology, I
think if you're interested in business and planning for your
future careers, you should come to City High. You love reading,
and you are really interested in art and history, those
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are things that we offer at City High. We have
cultural literacy where you learn English and history at the
same time. And so I think if you're not happy
or you don't know where to go to school, at
least come and have a conversation and see what we're
all about, because you may find something that is unique
that works for any student in the Pittsburgh area.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So check out the open house coming up on March
twenty second. What's the website again?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It is www dot Cityhigh dot org.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you offer any other academic classes that are unique
or maybe unique to city high something that you are
trying to introduce. Do you have any of you have
classes that are maybe different that you want to looking
to build.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, I think we're always trying to build our technology
courses because technology is changing so fast. So we've been
talking lately about the use of AI and high schools
and how do you use AI properly and as teachers,
how much do you promote AI because we want, obviously
students to do their their work themselves. But the reality
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is a lot of students are they are being introduced
to AI and help and trying to figure out how
that helps them in the future.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I think we're all trying to figure out you're right, you're.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Right, you're right. And the other thing is with the technology.
While it does change, we do offer a lot of
courses in Microsoft Word and Excel and Access and then
the Adobe Suite and then even programming, so I think,
you know, staying up to date on that and offering
those courses for students so that if they do go
into that career field, they are up to date and
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they can maybe skip some entry level college courses and
move on to the tougher stuff, and so I think
that's something that we're keeping our eye on. The Other
thing that I'll mention, our math curriculum is very collaborative.
So you're not going to find a traditional math course
at city high where you just work on problems and
you work independently. Our math and science curriculum really forces
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you to work with a group of people and to
figure out how to work with people long term. So
you work with students, other students in the classroom, and
some students may be a higher level than you or
a lower level, and how do you all work together
to solve a math problem.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You mentioned earlier about internships. My high school back in
the day didn't offer any kind of internships. I didn't
even know what an internship was until I went to college.
So what kind of internships are offered or what's the
what's the idea behind what you're able to offer?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So I think the idea is that kids get out
of our building and they work with other people in
the work force and they get to see, day to day,
hands down, what it looks like to work in the
career field that they're interested in. And so some kids
love it and they they're like, yes, I want to
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work in this in this area.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And you also make fun.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
When they find out, they say, oh, I never want
to do that again after these thirteen weeks. I didn't
know that's what that entailed. So I think it's really
good for kids to get out of the building because
it's good for them to have mentors in other places.
And then also they find out some things about the
jobs that they thought were really great or not so great,
or they find out like, hey, I was really good
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at this skill. Why was that my internship. I didn't
know I was good at this until someone asked me
to do this, and now I really want to do
this for a living. So there it's a thirteen week
experience where they eat lunch at school and then for
the second half of the day they sign out and
they go to technically like their internship or their job.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Us give us some examples of maybe some interns internships
that they've you've been offered.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yes, so that's a really good question. So we have
kids going to Bot's IQ and they work with robots,
so they program robots and they and they work with
that company, and we also have a robotics team. But
that's another side note. They work with robots and computers
and programming, and so they really like that because that's
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really the tech field and they can even obviously like
they can go into many fields when you when you
talk about robotics. We have kids that work in the
medical field, so they go to UPMC facility and whether
they are working on a hospital floor or volunteering with patients,
or they could also work in a nursing home and
they can find out what that area of nursing is like.
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We have students that also more technology based or engineering base,
go to firms downtown so they leave school and they
can just walk to their internship and some kids take
the bus. Let's see, we have we have internships with attorneys,
with one of the local hotels. For the service industry.
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There's a lot to choose from and it can be
anywhere from like a nonprofit to a for profit corporation.
And so we're always looking for internships. So even if
you're not looking for, you know, a high school, we're
always looking for internship host sites to take some of
our students.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right, yeah, real world experience, it's so invaluable, all right.
So the City High Charter open house is coming up
on March twenty second. Again, tell us everything we need
to know about the event.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, so open doors for anyone thinking you know what
to do after eighth grade looking at high school options.
Come and listen and talk to teachers about our curriculum,
what our school day is, what our four week model,
a four day model each week has to offer. And
also get to talk to students and like I said,
they'll give you the real deal on what it's like
(25:52):
to be a student at Citi High.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, Once again, the website.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is www dot cityhig dot org.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
All right, we only have a few minutes left, so
let's kind of recap everything that we talk about we thought.
All right, tell us everything we need to know about
City High.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
First of all, yes, we are an open public charter
school looking to take students for a wonderful high school experience,
a community where people are welcomed, loved and cared for
throughout high school. And so we take any student in
the Pittsburgh area or surrounding communities. And so I really
(26:30):
am asking that if you're thinking about where you're going
to go to high school or send your child to
high school, come see us and have a conversation and
learn about us before you make any decisions for ninth.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Grade, and once again kind of give us an overview
of some of the innovations that City High offers.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Absolutely one to one computing, every student has their laptop,
access to all courses technology, financial literacy, culture literacy, and
also post high school planning internships and a plan for
the future.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And also looping us about some of the things that
right maping.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So the teachers that you start with in ninth or
tenth grade are those teachers that are going to follow
you through your high school career, and so it turns
into more of a family and everyone knows everything about
each other so that you have a good high school experience.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
In the four day classroom school.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Four day school week, four day work week.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, do you go all summer long? Do you go?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
We do go through July? Yes. Okay, so instead of
having three summer months off, we have our months off December, April,
and August. And so we always say, work really hard
for three months, you get a month off. You work
hard for three months, you get a month off. And
so yes, while you're in school during the summer. Guess what, students,
most people work year round, and so we're practicing for life.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right. So as an institution, what is City High's
biggest challenge, our biggest challenge. Well, that's a tough question.
So I think we could do you think people are
familiar with City High.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't think they are. I think that the people
that are aware of City High are people that are
looking for other options for high school, but they're not
necessarily knowing where to look or that there are options.
So sometimes people feel stuck and they feel like there's
the only option is their district, when that's not the case.
(28:30):
And so I think, you know, making sure we get
out there and we talk to people, and we talk
to families, and we we market ourselves well, I think
that is a big piece of this, to make sure
people know that we exist.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You have a ninety four percent graduation rate, which is
which is which is amazing. So people who do enroll,
do they become fans of City High?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, they become fans, and so do their families. Oftentimes
we get one we get one child, and then we
see their siblings come along, and then we see their
cousins and then we know so like you know, I
know someone's grandma because I had someone else and then
they had children and then their children came.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So they'll say, oh missus, welch like remember so and
so that's that's my aunt. And she told me I
needed to come here, and she told me to ask
for you. And so it's really cool because we seem
to like know a lot of families and that's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So again, what is your biggest challenge?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So our biggest challenge, I think is, you know, finding
teachers because right now, teachers are hard to come by
in the not just in Pennsylvania, in the world. It's
hard to find teachers. And so that's with any school.
And then also I think our.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Go ahead, I bet it's specifically harder to find teachers
from your school because you have so many innovation ideas.
You need almost a teacher with a calling.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yes, yes, because you're If you're a teacher and you loop,
you don't teach the same content every year, and that's hard.
So if you teach math, you teach algebra one, algebra two, geometry,
a little bit of trig some calculus, and not every
teacher wants to do.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But the advantages you have some amazing teachers don't you
absolutely all right? Well, our time is up, so if
you're interested in the open house, make sure you check
out all the information at cityhigh dot org. That cityhigh
dot org. Angie Welch, Chief academic academic Officer, it's been
a pleasure. Thank you so much. Thank you so much
much for your time. As always, if you have any comments, concerns,
(30:41):
or an idea for a future program, please email us
from this radio station's website. I'm Johnny Heartwell, thank you
so much for listening.
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