AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation
Our Mission
The mission of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation (“AppleTree”) is to provide accelerated early language and literacy programs to the underserved preschoolers of Washington, DC to raise the trajectory of their future learning success.
AppleTree’s evidence-based instructional program features an aligned professional development and assessment system designed to close the achievement gap before children enter elementary school.
Today AppleTree Early Learning PCS operates 3 charter preschool sites—serving 180 children—in Washington, DC’s Southwest and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.
Through a federal Early Reading First grant, AppleTree’s DC Partnership for Early Literacy provides evidence-based teacher training, data-driven professional development, assessment and evaluation to three charter schools across seven campuses.
Awards and Recognition
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AppleTree Managing Director Jack McCarthy's paper, Eager to Read, was a runner up in the Pioneer Institute's Better Government Competition in 2008.
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AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter Schools are recognized in Democrats for Education Reform policy briefing memo, Partners in Closing the Achievement Gap: How Charter Schools Can Support Quality Universal Pre-K, authored by DFER board member Sara Mead.
