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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

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  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. Promising Practices Award, awarded by the Character Education Partnership (CEP), presented to eight HCS staff for the following projects:
    • 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
    • Hope Dolls and Bedding for Babies
    • Daring Drama
  7. Walt Disney HAND Award for Creative Teaching - top 100 teachers in America
  8. New Jersey Charter Schools Association Innovator of the Year Award
  9. New Jersey Charter Schools Association Advocate of the Year Award
  10. Office Max- National A Day Made Better Award
  11. 2008 Eva’s Village Service Award, awarded by the anti-poverty program, Eva’s Village (two recipients from HCS)
  12. Geraldine R. Dodge Teaching Fellow
  13. Excellence in Health Education Recognition Award through the American Association for Health Education
  14. State Farm National Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award finalist
  15. Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Recognition
  16. New Jersey Charter Public Schools Association Teacher of the Year nominee
  17. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching nominee
  18. American Stars of Teaching nominees (two HCS teachers nominated)
  19. Sole charter school advisor to the Hudson County Curriculum Consortium
  20. Reverend Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe, Ed.D. One Step Beyond Award
  21. 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.

Presentations led by the Hoboken Charter School staff

  1. Building More Globally-Conscious and Engaged Students through Service-Learning at the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Teachers’ Conference 2010, Singapore
  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. 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
  5. 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
  6. Lessons from the Field at ASCD’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, New Orleans, LA
  7. Effectively Incorporating Social Justice Learning into Curricula and Ask the Experts at ASCD’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, Orlando, FL
  8. Service-Learning at the Union County Education Commission
  9. Teachers in Support of Charter School Financing at the State House, Trenton, New Jersey
  10. Integration of Service-Learning into the Curriculum at the Hudson County Curriculum Consortium

Publications by the Hoboken Charter School staff

  1. ASCD Review, article entitled "Socially Responsible Students through Service-Learning" was written about Hoboken Charter’s School’s use of service-learning and was published in the December 2010/January 2011 annual journal that is lodged in Singapore’s National Library.
  2. Educational Leadership, article entitled "A Culture of Service-Learning" featured service-learning at Hoboken Charter School and was published in the May 2009 issue with an estimated distribution of 190,000 people.
  3. Education Update, eleven monthly articles on current educational topics were written by an HCS staff member and published with an estimated distribution of 190,000 people.