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October 27, 2013 by Edgar Mendez 1 Comment

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The Banner School of Milwaukee, an MPS-authorized charter, serves middle-school students in grades 6-8. It is part of the Banner educational group, a national education management association.

The new school, located at 7171 W. Brown Deer Road, is Banner’s second partnership with MPS, though Banner Prep, an MPS alternative school serving at-risk students, is not a charter.

Theresa Yeldell, executive director at Banner, said the organization decided to open a charter so it could be more independent than a traditional MPS school. Yeldell, an educator for 43 years who ran schools in Boston, Alexandria and now Milwaukee, said a charter school offers the flexibility to give students ”the Banner experience.” It also fills a gap, since there are very few middle schools in MPS.

Yeldell said this is awkward for students. “They’re either big elementary kids or little high school kids.”

The school utilizes a framework developed by James P. Comer, a professor of child psychiatry at Yale and an authority on childhood development and education, to teach inner-city children. It’s based on six developmental pathways: social interactive, psycho-emotional, ethical, cognitive, linguistic and physical. The framework integrates child development and academic content.

Banner middle school has a capacity of 240 students and will have 12 teachers when fully staffed. Organizations partnering with the school include Teach for America, the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center and Make a Difference-Wisconsin. Yeldell said community partners are important to show students, most living in poor neighborhoods, that there is strength in their communities.

“We want our kids to understand that richness in life isn’t about money,” Yeldell added. “It’s about the family and the community that they’re part of.”

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Edgar is a senior staff reporter for the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Mendez is a proud graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he double majored in Journalism and Sociology, and of Marquette University, where he earned a master’s degree in Communication. As an accomplished journalist, Edgar’s awards include a 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow award, several press club awards and a Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award for columns dealing with issues such as poverty, homelessness and racism.

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  1. AvatarMary says

    December 30, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    An investigation should be done on Banner schools in the Milwaukee area.

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