AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School
- Tsion Semret
Tsion Semret is an experienced educator and entrepreneur with a focus on nurturing creativity and confidence in children. As the Founder of KidOvation Stage since its establishment in 2017 and Co-Owner/Managing Director since 2014, Tsion Semret has been instrumental in developing programs that integrate theater, dance, visual arts, music, and science exploration to foster healthy living. In addition to these roles, Tsion Semret serves as an Early Childhood Educator at AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School and previously worked as an Educational Consultant for CARPE DIEM ARTS INC, promoting arts engagement in communities. Past experience includes working as a reporter for Kali TV Online and as an early childhood educator at DC Prep.
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AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School
AppleTree is an innovative nonprofit that develops and provides proven early childhood education programs to the most underserved three- and four-year-olds to close the achievement gap before students enter kindergarten. AppleTree is an entrepreneurial enterprise consisting of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation and AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, with seven public charter preschool campuses serving as models for effective teaching and learning. AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School provides an engaging and rigorous preschool for three- and four-year-olds in Washington, DC that gets children ready for kindergarten and future school success. AppleTree uses purposeful learning through play and guided instruction to create a safe, structured preschool experience. We employ highly qualified teachers who are professionally prepared and supported in their work to help children succeed. AppleTree's thematic curriculum builds children's vocabulary, critical thinking, and early literacy skills - and supports social emotional development. After two years at AppleTree, children significantly outperform their peers who did not attend AppleTree on measures of early language and literacy, and they are stronger oral readers in 2nd grade.