Katherine Bermudez's Colleagues at Arise High School
Gena Kurzfeld
Director Mathematics Education & Instructional Lead / Brd of Directors, AIA HS
Katherine Bermudez's Contact Details
Oakland,California,United States
Arise High School
Katherine Bermudez's Company Details
ARISE High School ensures that our community RISES UP! to become intellectual leaders of the world. ARISE is located in the heart of the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. 95% of our 260 students are low-income students of color. Our students are immersed in a challenging college-prep curriculum that emphasizes knowledge of self, critical consciousness, and performance assessment. The curriculum is enacted in the context of a highly personalized and supportive environment, which provides wrap-around services through our socio-emotional counselors, college advisors, and teachers. We are thrilled that 90% of our graduating seniors have been accepted to a 4-year college!\\Mission and Vision\\The MISSION of ARISE High School is to empower ourselves with the skills, knowledge, and agency to become highly educated, humanizing, critically conscious, intellectual, and reflective leaders in our community.\\At ARISE we nurture, train, and discipline our school community to engage in a continuous practice of developing mind, heart, and body towards a VISION where we actively rise up. Agency and self-determination drive our struggle to improve our own material and social conditions towards a more healthy, equitable, and just society.