I was so excited last week to meet Dr. Helen V. Griffith. She is the newly appointed executive director of the Downtown Charter High School (DCH), which will be on the new Central Library’s sixth and seventh floors and will eventually serve 500 high school students. After talking to her for just a brief time I knew she was the right person for the position. What a dynamo! She is so enthusiastic about wrapping together both formal and self-directed education for the DCH students. She has already hit the ground running and has started to put into place all the elements for getting the doors to the new school to open in the fall of 2013.
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| Dr. Helen Griffith Executive Director Downtown Charter High School |
Dr. Griffith grew up in San Diego, and like me, she has a passionate commitment to this community and helping students make the most of the fact that their school is in the new Central Library. With a fabulous new Teen Space, a homework center, a computer lab, and ready access to library materials and librarians to help them, these students will have all the resources they need to help them succeed.
The excitement for new Central Library is building. Having Dr. Griffith onboard at DCH is one more step in realizing the vision of the new Central Library as a state-of-the-art centerpiece of learning and civic engagement in San Diego.
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