Joseph Manko

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Principal
Location Baltimore, Maryland
Introduction Joseph Manko is the principal of Liberty Elementary School in Baltimore City, Maryland. Out of 155 schools, Liberty is the fifteenth highest performing school in Baltimore City. Liberty currently services 427 students, 93.5% of which qualify for the Federal Free and Reduced Meals program. Liberty boasts the largest field trip program in Baltimore with each child going on six to ten field trips each year. The school is also the site of the first attempted one-to-one mobile program in Baltimore City with 330 i-pads and 60 laptops being used daily by students. Liberty Elementary is also the site of the newly launched Liberty Rec and Tech Center, an adjacent recreation center directed at providing wrap around services including a food pantry, parenting classes, after school programming, a fab lab, and technology offerings to students and community members. Mr. Manko is a National Board Certified Teacher, Fulbright Scholar, America Achieves Fellow, New Leaders For New Schools Cohort Member, Teach For America Corps Member, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins and Towson University. Follow me on twitter, @joemanko or check out things at our school #Liberty64