{"id":162,"date":"2016-12-14T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guildschools.org\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:37:01","slug":"innovation-award-cses-asian-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Award &#8211; CSE&#8217;s Asian Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Charter School Innovation Awards presented by MACS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/education\/2016\/12\/five-minnesota-charter-schools-recognized-innovations\">MinnPost<\/a>)<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the area of increased learning opportunities for pupils, the St. Paul-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csemn.org\/\">Community School of Excellence<\/a> won for the work some of its students are doing with the Linux operating system and other open-source software to help close the technology divide in their community. At this K-8 Hmong language and culture charter school, middle school members of the Asian Penguin Club are refurbishing old computers by installing Linux software and donating them to families in need. The club, which began five years ago under the direction of the school\u2019s technology coordinator, Stuart Keroff, has given away more than 60 computers.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Kolderie, a contributor to the original charter-schools law who now serves as co-founder and senior fellow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationevolving.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Education Evolving<\/a>, teed up the awards presentation on Tuesday by adding a bit of historical context to the awards.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA lot of us who go back to the beginnings have the notion that the charter sector is basically about innovation, should be about innovation,\u201d he said, adding it\u2019s a small sector capable of making large-scale contributions when used as \u201ca platform for innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter School Innovation Awards presented by MACS (MinnPost) In the area of increased learning opportunities for pupils, the St. Paul-based Community School of Excellence won&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}