Ted Ginn Academy Renovation
Location: Cleveland, OH
The Client: Ted Ginn’s Mission
Working with troubled youth has been Ted Ginn Sr.,’s calling (current coach of the Glenville High School Track and and Football Teams. His vision for reaching, developing and saving the youth of the inner city led him to partner with the City of Cleveland School District to form a charter school.
A charter school is a “publicly funded independent school established by teachers, parents, or community groups”. The mission of this school is to provide an ideal learning environment where young men could receive individual mentoring, learn respect, and gain the self confidence needed to succeed in life.
The Project
The campus consisted of 3 buildings surrounding a quad. An academic building is structured to provide a small school (average two hundred or less students), unique, and personalized learning environment. Students are broken down into 4 academic schools with class size limited to 18 students per class. Each academic environment is set up to allow for teaching to multiple intelligences, while allowing space for two classes to combine for special projects. An English-History, or a Math-Science module is easily accommodated in the project area. Many of the students coming to this school are victims of difficult families and home circumstances. They are accommodated in the dorm facility, where councilors and support provide the social services these students are in need of. Continuing the tradition of athletic excellence, a field house was built to provide students the much needed space for exercise and fitness - a key component to Mr. Ginn’s philosophy of using athletics to teach children self discipline, and self-worth.
Ginn Academy
Today, Ginn Academy is thriving and has impacted many students over the years. The curriculum not only focuses on providing stability and growing students’ self-worth, it also emphasizes the necessity of higher-education, providing students with the necessary resources and a career center that students can utilize starting freshman year.
We are thankful to have had the opportunity to work on such a great project for the children of the city of Cleveland.