Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Phone: 617-635-9914
Fax: 617-635-9928
Principal: Margaret Bledsoe
BTR Site Director: Karen Loughran
Charlestown HS has 1037 students in grades 9-12; 23% receive special education services, and 15% are English Language Learners.
Charlestown is organized as four Small Learning Communities (SLCs), which pair a small group of 9th-12th grade students with a team of teachers for their four years in high school. The school offers special programs for English Language Learners who speak Cantonese. Over 20 BTR-affiliated adults - Teacher Residents, graduates, mentors, and the school’s site director - work with Charlestown students to build upon the school’s focus on learning and its commitment to humanitarianism and service.
Recently about Charlestown High School
RSS Feed1.22.10 - A Good Enough Teacher
I currently teach in a multi-age, multi-level alternative high school program, but my first step in a classroom (as an adult) was seven years ago in a fifth- and sixth-grade classroom in Cambridge. My mentor teacher worried about her students all the time. She… [more]
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1.10.10 - Discovering Myself (again!) and Kite Running
Discovering my “teacher identity” has been a major challenge in my residency year so far. I know who I am by myself, around my friends and family, working with professors and bosses—but who am I with my students? And in front of a whole… [more]
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11.23.09 - So far this SCHOOL year, I’m thankful for…
the chance to teach.
each and every unique and complex student I get to work with.
our “Native Son” unit.
my laptop for learning.
my students’ loyalty to their families.
inspiring colleagues.
whole-unit circles.
COLLABORATION!
a… [more]
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11.06.09 - Diploma Plus
My name is Sonya Crocker…a.k.a. Ms. Crocker! I’m an English BTR Resident and part of the Diploma Plus team at Charlestown High School (CHS).
In September, I met my mentors Adina and Kati (Ms. Schecter and Ms. Delahanty). If they were words… [more]
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10.06.09 - Student Engagement?
Imagine trying to engage thirty 16, 17, 18, and 19-year-olds (whom you don’t know) at noon on the last day of summer.
Let me back up. We (Adina and I) are teaching in a new alternative-ed small learning community at Charlestown High… [more]
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