Eric Hieser

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  Published on: 9/23/2008    Last Visited: 9/23/2008  

  Eric Hieser is the Executive Director of the Sturgis Charter Public School, joining the school in 2004.During the past four years, Sturgis has been recognized as a leader in educational reform due to its rigorous International Baccalaureate for All program.The school was highlighted in Newsweek in 2007 and was ranked by the magazine among the top 100 high schools in the U.S. at #55 in 2007 and at #43 in 2008.Sturgis also ranks among the top scoring schools in Massachusetts on the MCAS assessments.
  
  Prior to joining Sturgis Charter Public School as Executive Director, Eric held leadership positions in four American international schools in Brazil, Switzerland, Japan, and Norway and was the President of the Principals Association of American Schools of South America.He currently serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association and is a school consultant and site visitor for the International Baccalaureate.Eric has presented numerous workshops on board governance, college readiness, redesigning the American high school, and International Baccalaureate for All at regional, state, national, and international conferences.

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  Published on: 5/31/2007    Last Visited: 5/31/2007  

  When Sturgis Charter Public School's Executive Director Eric Heiser opened this week's copy of Newsweek magazine, he was expecting to find the school on the list of 100 Best US high schools.
  
  Heiser looked and looked again, but Sturgis wasn't there.
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  However, a discussion with Heiser cleared up the confusion.
  
  According to Heiser, Sturgis offers students the ability to repeat their junior year to gain their IB diploma, or repeat their sophomore year to gain entry into the school, which only accepts students until the first semester of Grade 10."The reason we have a change in numbers," said Heiser."Is that we have quite a number who retook their junior year to better prepare for university or obtain their IB diploma.They had to be re-classed as juniors."
  
  With the numbers making more sense Mathews assured Heiser that the magazine's on-line list would be updated to include Sturgis, which should come in around #45.
  
  "Our students, faculty and parents have worked really, really hard," said Heiser."It's very exciting.

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  Published on: 11/30/2007    Last Visited: 11/30/2007  

  Joining Keavy were fellow Hyannis principals Patricia Graves of Barnstable High School, Eric Hieser of Sturgis Charter Public School, Lisa Chen of Barnstable Middle School, Jonathan Hirst of Hyannis West Elementary School, and Tom Larrabee of Hyannis East Elementary School.
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  Sturgis Charter Public School received a mention in Newsweek magazine this year, Hieser said.He emphasized that all of Sturgis' students, including the 12 percent with special needs, take the rigorous courses leading to the International Baccalaureate degree.It is the only school in the United States where this happens, he said.
  
  "We are quite proud of the success rate for these students with special needs," Hieser commented.

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  Published on: 12/17/2006    Last Visited: 3/20/2007  

  Eric Hieser
  
  Sturgis Charter Public School

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  Published on: 11/28/2008    Last Visited: 11/28/2008  

  In a meeting of the Sturgis Community Advisory Board on Nov. 25, the school's executive director Eric Heiser said that the school is looking to expand its physical space sometime in the next year to five years. Heiser said an expansion is needed because the school is at capacity and the number of students is proving a challenge for Sturgis' tight Main Street location. "Basically our attrition has gone down, meaning that more students are staying at the school throughout [their four years]," said Heiser. "We're really tight right now and it looks like the senior class next year will be about 20 to 25 students larger." Sturgis has also seen a dramatic jump in the number of applicants, with a current waiting list of about 80 students between ninth and tenth grades. Heiser said there is an immediate need for at least two or three additional classrooms, with plans in the works for an even larger expansion and the possible creation of an arts center. "We're looking at a variety of possibilities there, with a focus on a center for the arts. I don't think it's quite defined yet, but it's a possibility," said Heiser.
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  Heiser also said that just what the school will be able to do immediately and in the future will depend largely on what's available in the community and what the state's budget will be. "There are a variety of possibilities," said Heiser. "We're not sure what the state budget will be. A lot of it will depend on the cost." With the proposed performing arts center at the former armory building on South Street nearly a dead issue, it was suggested that the board consider that building as a possibility given its potential for multiple uses. "We haven't had any discussions whatsoever about the property at this point," said Heiser. That property might be in flux over the next few years. It would depend on what happens with it." While the school's parking lot might seem like a viable option, Heiser noted that the lot is jointly owned by the school and Ryan Family Amusements, which operates the bowling alley next door to Sturgis. For now, Heiser and the aoard, with the input of the CAB, will be exploring their options regarding a possible expansion. "I think we're going to have to do at least something in the next year or so," said Heiser.

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  Published on: 2/15/2008    Last Visited: 6/19/2008  

  Sturgis Charter Public School Executive Director Eric Hieser announced that Patrick M. Temple, son of Ann Miller and John Temple of Barnstable, has been chosen as a finalist for the National Merit Scholarships Program.

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  Published on: 10/21/2007    Last Visited: 10/21/2007  

  The idea, says Eric Heiser, the school's executive director, is that all students deserve the chance to be exposed to the knowledge, skills and "habits of the mind" inherent in IB courses.
  
  "If it's truly the best university preparation out there, then why shouldn't all kids have access to it, not just a select few?"Heiser said.
  
  Of course, not all students can pass college-level exams in six core subjects to receive an IB diploma.Last year, only about a third of students at Sturgis Charter took the exams, and only three-fourths of those passed.
  
  Comparatively, 93 percent of students in East High's IB program pass the tests and complete the 4,000-word thesis required to earn the IB diploma.
  
  Even so, Heiser said, "where we really do a service is for those kids ... who are challenged to do work that some people find amazing."

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  Published on: 9/28/2006    Last Visited: 9/28/2006  

  "We're quite happy," Sturgis executive director Eric Hieser said yesterday.

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  Published on: 4/1/2004    Last Visited: 12/31/2004  

  Eric Hieser, the new executive director of the Sturgis Charter School, has spent his life answering a musical question posed by Sam R. Lewis and Joe Young:
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  Born into a farming family in central Illinois, Hieser has taught in Norway, Japan, Zurich and Brazil, serving often as an administrator as well.

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  Published on: 10/3/2004    Last Visited: 10/4/2004  

  The international infusion goes right to the top, too, with the school's new director, Eric Hieser, who has worked in Norway, Japan and Brazil.
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  Hieser, who was hired this year as director of the charter school, used the IB at his former school in Brazil, where he was principal.
  
  When he took job at the 362-student Hyannis charter school this spring, he used his international connections to recruit teachers from parts unknown - unknown at least to most American teenagers.

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