Phil Weinberg - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner

Title

Phil Weinberg - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner

Description

2012 SLOAN Public Service Award Winner: Phil Weinberg (Principal, High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology, Department of Education)

Phil Weinberg is Principal of Brooklyn's High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology (HSTAT), a large, non-specialized school with a student body of 1,300 that mirrors the community it serves: half Hispanic, 20 percent African-American, 70 percent from low-income families. Described by a colleague as "the definition of educational leadership at its best," Weinberg has turned down dozens of offers of positions elsewhere.

Weinberg sees his main task as "creating the conditions that allow teachers to do their best work and create classes where students can grow." To ease the transition to high school, freshman and sophomores are divided into four groups of 150 students, with their own teachers, four "schools within a school."  The majority of the school's 200 special education students are integrated via Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT). Each teaching team consists of two teachers—one certified in the subject area, the other in special education. As one teacher noted, "In these classes, we work together so that everyone is helping everyone else."

Getting ready for college is the focus at HSTAT. The framework is established by a demanding academic curriculum that requires all students to carry a full load of the most rigorous courses they can handle. "If we determine you can take calculus, you take calculus," said Weinberg. Students begin to visit colleges as freshmen, their college essay is a major project in their junior year and all seniors turn in their college applications en masse to the schools' college counselors on a Friday late in November. Students traditionally attend school that day dressed in professional attire in celebration of this milestone. Said one senior, "No one can not go to college in this school."

Creator

Lenox315

Date

2015

Source

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/DeputyChancellorWeinberg.jpg

Rights

2012 SLOAN Public Service Award Winner: Phil Weinberg (Principal, High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology, Department of Education)

Publisher

Unknown

Contributor

Unknown

Format

Medium: Photograph

Language

English

Type

Figures

Identifier

Phil Weinberg, Education, Brooklyn High School, NY, Brooklyn, HSTAT

Coverage

New York

Files

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/DeputyChancellorWeinberg.jpg

Reference

Lenox315, Phil Weinberg - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner, Unknown, 2015

Cite As

Lenox315, “Phil Weinberg - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed March 29, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/289.