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Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards received by the Hoboken Charter School

  1. National Charter School of the Year by The Center for Education Reform (one of two schools recognized in NJ and one of fifty-three recognized in the nation in 2007)
  2. National Service-Learning Leader School
  3. New Jersey Service-Learning Leader School
  4. Model School for Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
  5. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hudson County Recognition for Our Commitment to the Organization and our Community’s Youth

Honors and Awards received by the Hoboken Charter School staff

  1. One of ten Teaching Ambassador Fellows to the U.S. Department of Education.
  2. Teacher of the Year - NJ SEEDS
  3. Governor’s State Teaching Award
  4. 2008 Outstanding Young Educator Award, awarded by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
  5. National Teacher of the Year via the Moss Foundation for Children’s Education
  6. New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association Innovator of the Year
  7. Promising Practices Award, awarded by the Character Education Partnership (CEP), (5 recipients from HCS)
    • Healing Choir
    • Blank Slates, Understanding Civil Rights
    • Journeys- Hudson River Curriculum
    • Teaching Social Studies Through a Social Justice Framework
    • Art and Character Education
    • Peace Pillow Project for Haitian Relief Effort
  8. Walt Disney HAND Award for Creative Teaching - top 100 teachers in America
  9. Office Max- National A Day Made Better Award
  10. 2008 Eva’s Village Service Award, awarded by the anti-poverty program, Eva’s Village (2 recipients from HCS)
  11. Geraldine R. Dodge Teaching Fellow
  12. Mr. Duff’s AGGG!!! (Art of Greater Gravity and Giving) art and service-learning club for teens and pre-teens has gone national and is being embraced by schools and youth organizations across America including the New Jersey Boys and Girls Clubs
  13. Finalist for the State Farm National Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award
  14. Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Recognition
  15. New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association Teacher of the Year nominee
  16. New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association Administrator of the Year nominee
  17. New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association Advocate of the Year nominee
  18. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching nominee
  19. Excellence in Health Education through the AHEA (American Health Education Association)
  20. Hudson County Teacher Recognition Program- Excellence in Teaching (7 recipients)
  21. American Stars of Teaching nominees (2 were nominated)
  22. Sole charter school advisor to the Hudson County Curriculum Consortium
  23. Reverend Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe, Ed.D. One Step Beyond Award

Presentations led by the Hoboken Charter School staff

  1. Effectively Incorporating Social Justice Learning into Curricula and Ask the Experts at ASCD’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, Orlando, FL
  2. Service-Learning - Theoretical Background and Practical Application in K-12 Schools at the Independent School Leadership Institute at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, Nashville, TN
  3. Setting a Character Education Research Agenda at Character Education Partnership’s National Forum on Character Education, Washington, D.C.
  4. Lessons from the Field at ASCD’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, New Orleans, LA
  5. Service-Learning at the Union County Education Commission
  6. Innovative Strategies for Recruiting, Retaining and Compensating America's Teacher Corps Examined on the U.S. Department of Education’s monthly TV show Education News Parents Can Use
  7. Educating for Social Justice presentation at the opening general session at ASCD’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show alongside Alma Powell with an estimated attendance of 7,000 people, New Orleans, LA
  8. Teachers in Support of Charter School Financing at the State House, Trenton, New Jersey
  9. Integration of Service-Learning into the Curriculum at the Hudson County Curriculum Consortium
  10. Building More Globally-Conscious and Engaged Students through Service-Learning at ASCD's Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, San Antonio, TX

Publications by the Hoboken Charter School staff

  1. Educational Leadership, article about service-learning at Hoboken Charter School was written by an HCS staff member and published in the May 2009 issue with an estimated distribution of 190,000 people.
  2. Education Update, monthly articles on current educational topics are written by an HCS staff member and published with an estimated distribution of 190,000 people.