As a teenager, Wayne Millette moved from Grenada to Brooklyn, NY. He has been trying to transform the urban school experience ever since.
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Wayne Millette, Director of New Beginnings Academy, is troubled by the nature of urban schools (download iPod compatible video, 45MB). Part of this sentiment comes from personal experience when as a teenager he made the transition from his bucolic home in Grenada to Brooklyn, NY. Part of this sentiment comes from his dissertation thesis where his research revealed that, on average, university faculty training school administrators had themselves not stepped inside a school in 13 years.
After completing his Ph.D at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Wayne did a brief sojourn at University of Michigan before taking a position at Olivet College to help start their Master of Arts in Teaching. It was during this period that he began to form the idea to start a charter school. He and a colleague spent their one hour commute to and from Olivet discussing what K12 education meant to communities and planning how they could make more of an impact.
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