At the beginning of every year, Pivot Charter School’s Governing Board comes together to plan for the future of Pivot and discuss the best strategies and programs for all of Pivot’s students. In January, Pivot’s completely volunteer board met with Executive Director Jayna Gaskell and others in leadership to ensure [...]

Being a student is no easy feat. Discovering who you are and what your passions are while entering adulthood is hard enough, on top of the added stress of a pandemic disrupting our lives. Pivot’s team of counselors provides a comprehensive support system that aims to address the general, overarching, [...]

At Pivot, we can accommodate any student, regardless of what academic level they’re at or what help they require to succeed. Since reading is important for any and all academic pursuits, Pivot’s Reading Intervention Program helps students get up to their grade level on reading, which in turn helps the [...]

Since Pivot Charter School’s online workshops were so popular and educational for students during the 2020-21 school year, Pivot is expanding its schoolwide workshops to accommodate both onsite and virtual opportunities.  Pivot originally started offering virtual, schoolwide workshops when Resource Centers had to close in 2020 because of the pandemic. [...]

Cadence Steenson is a senior at Pivot Charter North Valley, who has a passion for photography. She took this love for photography and started a business, called Sixteen Storms Photography, which was recently featured in Upgraded Living Magazine.  “My photography business was a passion project I took on, and the [...]

Pivot’s Director of Systems and Accountability, Lindsey Vining, started with Pivot over 7 years ago as an Educational Coordinator teaching mathematics. She has since taken over systems and curriculum, despite her love for teaching and math, as Lindsey’s true passion in the field of education is supporting students and helping [...]

Pivot Charter Schools is excited to announce the launch of our brand new websites. After launching a new logo, brand colors and a new tagline in 2020, Pivot also wanted to develop and create a new website to offer students, parents and other visitors a more streamlined and smoother online [...]

As schools across the country continue to grapple with COVID-19-related concerns over potential loss of learning, Pivot Charter School, a non-classroom based charter school, is proud to announce that its 2020-2021 data shows an overall increase in learning among Pivot students. This is an amazing feat given that many students [...]

For the first time in more than a year, students stepped foot into their Resource Centers on Monday, April 12, 2021. Through rotating schedules and stable and cohort groups, students were able to safely get academic support and socialize with their peers again. To ensure returning to in-person learning went [...]

Savannah Robinson graduated (early) from Pivot North Bay in March 2021 after taking control of her education by starting at Pivot during her sophomore year of high school. When the social and educational culture at Savannah’s traditional high school started to cause unnecessary distractions and stress, she began considering other [...]