Pros
- Summit really is at the vanguard of the national movement to personalize learning, and it's working with a really heterogeneous group of students in doing so - Everyone at Summit - from every teacher to the CEO - is highly committed to serving students ever better - Summit is really committed to educator PL, and has a lot of other school systems trying to learn from its systems. Every educator has a coach, every educator gets over 8 weeks of dedicated PD time per year, and PD is personalized and puts educators at the center so that they self-direct their growth. - Educators have the opportunity to build relationships with students as a teacher and also as a mentor, which is a core part of adults' and students' experience at Summit schools.
Cons
- Because Summit's innovating so much, systems change more frequently than the average school system I bet. We do more things before they're 100% perfect - which has pros and cons. - Teachers at Summit work pretty hard. They're well supported, but the hours are probably longer than your average school.