Faren D’Abell, One City’s Chief of Instructional Design, has a new role teaching fourth graders at One City Elementary School, One City announced on Monday.
“We have reassigned Mr. D’Abell to ensure that our fourth-grade scholars have the educational intervention and enrichment necessary to help them overcome several months of learning loss during the pandemic,” One City CEO Kaleem Caire said in a statement. “As you know, fourth grade is a new grade level for One City this year. Most of our fourth-grade scholars were learning virtually or were home-schooled during the pandemic, and lost considerable ground educationally as a result. This decision has been made to help them catch up.
“We look forward to Mr. D’Abell serving in this new role,” Caire added.
D’Abell joins Malcolm Calbert as the guiding teacher in fourth grade. In the past, he has also served as One City’s Elementary School principal. Prior to that, D’Abell served as a principal of public schools in Chicago and Detroit and was a highly regarded 6th-grade teacher. He also coached and mentored undergraduate and graduate K-12 educators through Purdue University Northwest.
One City Schools is an independent, tuition-free, charter school, located at 1707 W. Broadway in Monona, that recently signed a contract with the University of Wisconsin System to open and operate One City Preparatory Academy this fall — expanding One City to 12th grade.
D’Abell starts at this new role today.
