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Team & FamilyMr. Adam Meinig, School Director Adam Meinig began his career as a fifth-grade teacher with Orleans public schools six years ago. After achieving significant academic gains with his students in his first two years in the classroom, he realized that a great fifth-grade experience didn’t do enough to guarantee long-term academic success for his students. He began looking for ways to have longer-lasting impact on his students. He discovered KIPP schools, which committed to doing whatever it took with their students for four years to ensure that by the end of eighth grade they were able to get into the very best high schools and succeed at the highest levels. He joined the staff of KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy in Denver, Colorado, and spent three years building the program as a founding teacher. His heart and mind never left New Orleans though, and in 2005 he was accepted into the KIPP School Leadership Program to open KIPP Believe College Prep in New Orleans. It is with great excitement that he returns to New Orleans as the Freshman Reading teacher and school director.
Scarlet Feinberg is joining KIPP Believe after starting her career in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana at Bunche Middle School. There she taught 6th grade mathematics for two years as a Teach for America corps member and inspired her students to achieve significant gains. Ms. Feinberg was also active in the lives of her students outside of the classroom, both as a coach and a mentor. A Louisiana native, she graduated from A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane where she double majored in marketing and legal studies. Ms. Feinberg is thrilled to be part of KIPP Believe and proud to be part of the rebuilding of a city that she loves deeply.
Keith Hart has spent the greater part of two decades learning, teaching and performing music. As a native New Orleanian, in those two decades he has trained and/or performed with the best New Orleans offers, including Ellis Marsalis' Jazz Ensemble, Principal trombonist of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Steve Suter, Slide Hampton, Herman Jones, Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield. While he specializes in brass, woodwind and percussion, Mr. Hart has been trained in all instruments pertaining to band. Mr. Hart believes that music serves as an avenue of communication and it is the only language that is natural and honest, in that music allows people to make subliminal connections. His goal is to share musical concepts as they apply to musical expression with students. As a music educator, he aims to engage students by assessing and observing each student's learning style and then teaching them the way they learn best.
For the past two years, Freddy Kullman has been teaching 7th grade social studies in the South Bronx at Urban Science Academy. In June, he will fulfill his two-year commitment as a New York City Teaching Fellow and receive his Masters of Education from Lehman College. Before moving to New York, Freddy completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A. in government. He is thrilled to be returning to New Orleans, his childhood home, to help rebuild the city through education. Freddy believes in New Orleans and he believes in the students that will be the heart and soul behind the city's renewal.
Ms. Persons joins KIPP Believe after teaching for four years in the St. John Parish public school system while living in New Orleans. As a Teach For America corps member, she taught fourth grade for three years, and second grade for one year. Ninety-four percent of her most recent class of fourth-grade students achieved passing levels on the LEAP, and she had the two highest composite scores out of all fourth-grade classes. Ms. Persons has worked for Teach For America as a Diagnostics Coordinator and a Learning Team Leader. In both capacities, she worked closely with new teachers enabling them to have the tools they needed to achieve significant gains in their classrooms. She is also a Teacher-Consultant with the National Writing Project.
Sean Duncan is joining KIPP Believe after spending the last year teaching 5th graders displaced by hurricane Katrina at Lake Pontchartrain Elementary in La Place, LA. Prior to hurricane Katrina he taught students with emotional/behavioral disorders at McDonough #42 in Orleans Parish. Mr. Duncan graduated from Loyola College in Maryland where he majored in history and political science. He is committed to going the distance for student achievement and will strive until success is achieved at KIPP Believe. He is proud to call New Orleans home.
Patrice Hammond began her scholarly career at Xavier University of Louisiana. It was at Xavier that a strong commitment to community service was formed. In wanting to continue to give back to the community, she chose a career in social work and obtained her MSW from the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis. Since then, she has worked at Louisiana State University as a Coordinator creating diversity programs to enhance student knowledge concerning cultural differences. She has counseled high-school and college students in rigorous academic programs and has volunteered countless hours tutoring and teaching inner city youth, feeding the homeless as a member of Hunger Coalition, and visiting nursing homes through the Adopt-A-Grandperson program. She loves New Orleans and has taken classes such as The Racial Dimensions of Hurricane Katrina and Capturing Katrina Narratives from the University of New Orleans to better serve those affected by the devastating storm.
Tanyika Carter comes to KIPP Believe from Los Angeles, where she worked for the last several years assisting charter schools in locating and outfitting facilities, creating sound instructional and financial plans, and negotiating charter approval with local school boards. She is a proud alumna of the University of Texas at Austin and is currently pursuing graduate studies in education at Loyola University.
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