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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tina McGovern 415-749-3600 ext. 19, outreach@gatewayhigh.org
San Francisco Superintendent Arlene Ackerman visits Gateway
May 25th, 2004
San Francisco, CA - May 13, 2004 - Dr. Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District visited Gateway today, May 13, 2004.
Guided by Gateway students and Principal Sharon Olken the Superintendent toured the School, dropping in on a number of classes including the 9th grade Psychology class "The Mind that's Mine," Physics, Humanities in which the students were reading aloud from the Great Gatsby. Ackerman found Gateway's 9th grade Psychology class of significant interest and spoke with its Teacher at length, Ms. McMinn, about the benefits of this course, which teaches students to examine their own process of learning.
Superintendent Ackerman spent a good deal of time in Gateway's Learning Center talking with its Director and Resource Specialists about Gateway's unique programs and services that help students acquire the tools they need to be successful in a college preparatory curriculum, including those students with learning disabilities.
Dropping by the college counseling office Dr. Ackerman asked Gateway seniors what schools they were attending next fall, and received energetic replies such as Brown, Pomona, San Francisco State and Berkeley.
Superintendent Ackerman wrapped up her hour-long visit with a lively Q&A with a handful of Gateway students discussing, among many topics, how students have been successful at starting interesting School Clubs and recruiting other students to join, what the Gateway experience is like for San Francisco's youth and the state of the School's facilities and how that impacts their experience.
The visit gave Superintendent Ackerman a thumbnail look inside an ordinary day at Gateway and our faculty and students a great opportunity to meet and talk with San Francisco's Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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