Friday Feature: Kipe Academy
Colleen Hroncich Tonya Kipe saw the flaws of the public school system both as a mom and a teacher. She loved her elementary teaching position at first but grew frustrated by how cookie-cutter and robotic it became. Hers was one of eight second-grade classrooms at her school, and they were all expected to be keeping the same pace despite having students at various levels. “We were a Title I school,” she recalls. “Half of the group was reading […]