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Jailene Ramos (right) and Supt. Negron at Cross-hosted budget talk.
Will next year’s schools budget have enough money set aside to fix bathrooms with no sink handles and school buildings that get too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer?
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by | Oct 3, 2023 10:15 am | Comments (6)
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Supervisor of Elementary Reading and Language Arts Jennifer Tousignant.
In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through third-grade educators — all based off of the district’s recently adopted core literacy program.
That block includes 30 minutes of phonics instruction, 20 minutes of whole group structured literacy learning, and 40 minutes of small group instruction.
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by | Aug 29, 2023 4:33 pm | Comments (17)
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Supt. Madeline Negrón salsa dances her way towards the 2023-24 school year ...
... at the annual, music-and-culture-filled NHPS convocation.
The nation’s top education official, Miguel Cardona, offered a custom playlist with a song for every occasion for New Haven teachers as they get ready for the start of the school year on Thursday.
Track 1: “Vivir Mi Vida” by Marc Anthony, as a reminder to enjoy the work you do.
Track 2: “Respect” by Aretha Franklin, for when politics tries to creep its way into the classroom.
Track 3: “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Jon Bon Jovi, for January when “we’re halfway there.”
Track 4: “Valio La Pena” by Marc Anthony, to know it’s worth it.
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by | May 1, 2023 11:04 am | Comments (5)
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Nakeshia Alford & her kids at teachers union-hosted education justice town hall.
Higher quality school lunches. More reliable school bus transportation. Enough hand soap and paper towels in all school bathrooms. And better work opportunities for public-school students under the age of 16.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students put forward those goals among many others as they joined parents, teachers, and education allies in defining what a fully funded city school district could look like.
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Ta’LannaMonique Lawson-Dickerson with NHPS students Chyna Lopes, Naylanee Alejandro, and Kate Kim at April monthly Citywide Student Council meetup.
Roughly 40 high-schoolers from across New Haven gathered on Sherman Parkway to cast their votes in support of having a greater say in school district decision making, higher-quality facilities, a more socially relevant curriculum, and increased investment in student well-being and restorative justice.
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by | Mar 3, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (2)
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At Conte West this school year.
Home visits, award ceremonies, and morning announcements to Conte West scholars that “every day counts” and “it’s cool to be in school” helped the Wooster Square magnet school decrease its chronic absenteeism rate by 13 percent since the start of the school year.
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by | Jan 30, 2023 4:48 pm | Comments (0)
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Clinton Avenue literacy coach Marilyn Ciarleglio (center) with NHPS Asst. Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans.
Clinton Avenue School literacy coach Marilyn Ciarleglio has spent the past week getting a “refreshing” taste of a new K‑3 reading curriculum that has a Spanish-language component that’s been a gamechanger in helping teach multilingual students to read.
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CT Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker: "I want Team New Haven to know that the Department of Education is here to support the work that you are doing."
Tuesday's state delegation-organized meeting about NHPS.
Connecticut’s top education official and New Haven state lawmakers called city public school district leaders to the table for a reality check on student chronic absenteeism — and for a discussion on improving local public education while working as one “Team New Haven.”
by | Dec 19, 2022 2:23 pm | Comments (2)
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First grader K'Jalee makes tasty treat for birds during Wellness Wednesday, an outdoors and inclusive successor to a talented and gifted program.
Students looking for color inspiration for their art class mandalas.
An Edgewood School first grader spooned sun butter and Cheerios onto a pinecone to feed a hungry bird.
Nearby, one of her fourth grade schoolmates found inspiration for a classroom art project in a pale-yellow house with green shutters.
And in an outdoor classroom area near Yale Avenue, an eighth grader weaved coral-colored yarn around two sticks to make a dream catcher to beautify her school, all as a part of a unique effort to address both social emotional challenges in the classroom and concerns about exclusivity in enrichment programs.
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Ashley Stockton (center) at "Tell Me Why It Works" panel.
The stakes of learning the wrong way to read are more than just academic for Ashley Stockton.
The Wexler-Grant teacher saw firsthand how her son with dyslexia struggled in school when following a now-outdated method that prioritizes looking for clues and guessing at words — and she saw how his literacy improved when, with the help of a costly private tutor, he began to sound words out.
Stockton shared that story of her shift in understanding about how reading can and should be taught during a panel discussion called, “Tell Me Why It Works: The Science Behind Reading.”
by | Sep 30, 2022 10:28 am | Comments (3)
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NHPS Supervisor of Literacy Lynn Brantley presents plan at City Hall hearing.
Committee alders welcomed the New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) new math and literacy plan — which officials claimed may shift towards a more phonics-based “structured” reading program — while questions arose about whether the draft proposal is complete enough to effect significant needed change.
by | Sep 28, 2022 3:35 pm | Comments (10)
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District's new reading plan improvements.
Top public school administrators have have drafted an “enhanced literacy and math plan” in response to months of public outcry from teachers, students, and parents about a learning crisis in city classrooms.
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Climate activists outside City Hall in 2019.
The Board of Education has accepted climate activists’ challenge to reduce the public schools system’s carbon footprint — by unanimously approving a new “climate emergency” resolution put forward by the New Haven Climate Movement (NHCM).
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by | Jun 10, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Dave Cruz Bustamante: We deserve the vote.
Rising Wilbur Cross junior Dave Cruz-Bustamante is gathering troops of students and an activist outlook to bring to the table with him as the newly elected Board of Education’s (BOE) student representative.
by | May 26, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (11)
Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven "shouldn't be indebted to a system that doesn't work."
Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way kids learn to read — how she believes New Haven is ready to follow the state in making the shift.
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Student protesters marching downtown Thursday.
Three hundred students poured out of New Haven high schools onto city buses and the streets to the New Haven Green to issue a cry for help: We need more counselors, not cops, to help us deal with exploding mental-health concerns.
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Sunday's ribbon cutting ceremony.
New Haven celebrated keeping hope alive at The Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) Sunday, officially welcoming a new teacher-oriented public school that opened its doors two years ago at the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Students protesting Monday in support of teachers facing nonrenewals.
After a day of student-led protest, Common Ground High School’s board voted to allow the administration to discontinue contracts of four teachers at the end of the academic year amid a broader discussion of the school’s direction.
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by | Apr 4, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (22)
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Teacher/parent Sarah Levine pitches a shift in reading strategy.
The job description has grown. The pay and support haven’t.
Meanwhile, not enough kids are learning to read — in part because of the method they’re being taught.
So New Haven Public School (NHPS) teachers informed city alders at a once-a-year chance to check in and have their voices heard.
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New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) will focus attention on its students’, educators’, and parents’ wellbeing for a “day of healing.”
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New Schools Chief of Staff Michael Finley: Reports back from listening tour.
New Haven students are looking to get leaky school roofs fixed, more after-school programs, and more help in making the transition from middle to high school.
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Students who opt out of standardized testing may no longer be treated differently from their testing classmates, under a new policy approved by the Board of Education.
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by | Nov 23, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (6)
The Board of Education has approved a new policy that will provide school staff with professional development in transgender sensitivity and protect transgender and gender-non-conforming students’ identity, dress code, bathroom, and other rights.
by | Oct 7, 2021 12:11 pm | Comments (9)
Revitalized classroom libraries. Brand new 3D printers. Enhanced automotive and construction career programs. New part-time tutors.
Those are among the suggested plans for new state money coming in to town to boost four “low-performance” schools.
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“Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.
With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and dance through their hair — in the latest example of in-person learning during the ongoing pandemic.