Lisa Guido--student Achievement Into the Classroom

A s part of the Chalk it Up to Teachers campaign, Teach for America and Experience Project bring you this teacher's story.

Lisa Guido, a 2006 corps member and history teacher in Southeast D.C. has brought leadership and high expectations for student achievement into her classroom.

Lisa Guido teaches history in Anacostia’s Ballou Senior High School.  In her first year of teaching, Lisa set very ambitious expectations for her students, despite Ballou’s history of poor test scores.  In a district where 65 percent is the traditional passing grade, she set the bar at 80 percent.  Though her students initially resisted, those who were not passing quizzes were soon begging to retake them.  Lisa’s students rose to her challenge, and by the end of the year, they achieved over 80 percent mastery of the objectives that Lisa wrote based on New York State’s Regents Exam. 

Lisa was so encouraged by her students’ success that she and other Teach For America corps members spent last summer organizing Ballou’s 10th grade academy, a program that integrates rigorous English and social studies content through a collaboration between teachers. 

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