by | May 26, 2023 3:19 pm | Comments (2)
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The McKoy family wins the day at Celentano school art auction.
Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
by | May 26, 2023 11:50 am | Comments (3)
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Neil Geist with local oysters in hand and a fleet of student-built sharpies behind.
Freshmen Alex Spruill and Dan Lopez, who worked two months on restoring Tenacious's decking.
As a student at the Sound School in the 1980s, Neil Geist helped to build a full-size model of the historic New Haven oyster boat, a 35-foot sharpie called Tenacious.
The Tenacious was so perfect and sailed so well the folks at Mystic Aquarium wanted to exhibit her. But the sea gods were not as protective on land. En route the boat slipped off the trailer, on I‑95, and broke in half.
But the story is going to have a happy ending.
Continue reading ‘Sound School Saves A Sharpie -- & An Oyster Reef’
by | May 25, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (15)
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ESUMS junior Leah Mock gives the board a D for its work on reducing waste.
Class was in session for the Board of Education, and the assignment was to help save the earth.
A report card handed out by student-graders about the school board’s work on energy efficiency, reducing food waste and transportation emissions, and investing in a healthy and sustainable future looked pretty bleak: three C’s, one D, and an F.
Continue reading ‘Climate Grades Are In ... & Don't Look Good’
by and | May 24, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (29)
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APT patients Tito Cabrera and Tanya: Methadone clinic saves lives.
Daniels School security guard Al Heard: All the people hanging out, selling and using drugs in the area is not good for the kids.
John C. Daniels School teacher Jane Roth pleaded to the Board of Education to help save her school’s students and staff from having to see overdoses on the school’s property, used syringes scattered around the campus, and drug-users shooting up just outside the Congress Avenue bounds of where children learn and play.
by | May 23, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (7)
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Students released early from Coop Tuesday after lockdown.
Students at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School spent more than two hours locked down Tuesday morning in response to a report of a student bringing a gun in a backpack into the building.
Continue reading ‘Coop Students Sent Home Early After Lockdown’
by | May 22, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (4)
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Tallying up Friday's school board election results at City Hall.
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Cross sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser.
Wilbur Cross High School sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser will be the next student representative on the Board of Education, after coming out on top in a three-way race for a soon-to-open seat.
by | May 22, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (4)
A rendering of the future childcare site on Flint Street.
Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.
by | May 19, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (17)
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Ten-year-old Corinne: "This is what community looks like!"
Hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schoolers gathered to send a message to adults: We’re not too young to be worth hearing.
by | May 18, 2023 4:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Davis seventh-grader Dulce puts pen to not-paper to make a 3D guitar figure.
Out of thin air and a 3Doodler pen emerged miniature plastic avocados and guitars and lava lamps — as hands-on learning took a new shape, literally, in an Upper Westville classroom.
by | May 17, 2023 5:35 pm | Comments (7)
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Andrea Downer files campaign registration papers Wednesday with City Clerk Michael Smart.
This year’s Board of Education campaign officially began Wednesday afternoon, as Andrea Downer filed papers to seek the District 2 seat as a Democrat.
by | May 17, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (2)
School board student rep candidates Laila Kelly Walker, John Carlos Serana Musser, and Hsiu-Mei Chow-Yen, with current board member Dave Cruz-Bustamante.
Making classroom lessons more relevant and engaging, increasing student pride in school facilities’ good repair, and boosting mentorship programs for K‑12 students across the district.
Those top the list of priorities of the three New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students who are now running in an election for a soon-to-open student rep seat on the Board of Education.
by | May 16, 2023 12:15 pm | Comments (2)
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King-Robinson STEM teacher Jonathan Hill, with seventh grader Thomas: "They solve their own problems in here."
Eighth grader -- and budding engineer -- Nevaeh James building her hydraulic system.
As her hands worked deftly on a new in-classroom engineering project, King-Robinson eighth grader Nevaeh James glanced back and forth between a basic model of a hydraulic system and her own build — which she had designed to be bigger and with an additional moving claw.
Continue reading ‘Student Engineers Put Pressure To Practice’
by | May 15, 2023 6:20 pm | Comments (10)
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Shelley Smith and 2nd-grader Maite at Bishop Woods New Haven Reads site.
Summer camps this year will double as literacy and math training grounds powered by volunteers, marking the first wave of a $3 million pandemic relief-funded citywide tutoring effort.
by | May 12, 2023 4:59 pm | Comments (8)
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Cross chefs-in-training show off their culinary chops at Friday's presser.
Punchy restaurant pitches and smoke from searing scallops filled Wilbur Cross Friday morning as students showed off lessons learned from participating in a nationwide youth culinary competition — and from living in a small city as culturally rich as the meals served up by the school’s award-winning cooking crew.
Continue reading ‘Cross Culinary Champs Bring Home The Gold’
by | May 12, 2023 4:44 pm | Comments (7)
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Newly tapped Co-Op Principal Paul Camarco at Monday's ed board meeting.
Hillhouse Assistant Principal Paul Camarco rose the ranks to become the next principal of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, in one of a handful of new school board-approved promotions.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse AP Promoted To New Co-Op Principal’
by | May 11, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (2)
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Sixth graders Tiranke Keita, Grace Sherman, and Issac Oliver in Barnard's garden bed.
Barnard sixth grader Tiranke Keita dug a hole in the bed of her school’s garden, Grace Sherman filled it in with a handful of rich compost, and Issac Oliver nestled in a starter plant of lettuce — kicking off the Derby Avenue PreK‑8 school’s latest effort in hands-on, hands-in-the-dirt learning.
Continue reading ‘Barnard's Classroom Garden Springs to Life’
by | May 11, 2023 9:08 am | Comments (13)
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Will NHPS pick up or drop off new First Student bus contract?
New NHPS Director of Transportation LaShell Rountree.
The city’s school district has a new transportation director — but may soon be without a school bus provider, as the Board of Education failed to agree on what should happen next after First Student’s current contract ends on June 30.
by | May 10, 2023 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
Police detained a Hillhouse High student who allegedly posted a threat to shoot up the school.
An estimated 150 Hillhouse students stayed home Wednesday after the threat circulated Tuesday on Instagram.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Mass Shooting "Joke" Leads To Hospital Evaluation, Student Absences’
by | May 9, 2023 3:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Digging up "worms" at Reggie Mayo school's new garden.
The romaine, zucchini, and radishes were going in, along with bright orange marigolds.
So were plastic “squooshies” of worms, lime-green butterflies, black-dotted ladybugs, and other creatures that pre-schoolers can now bury in the dirt and then dig up, not months hence at harvest time, but within seconds, and then call out a loud “surprise” at the remarkable re-finding of the object.
Continue reading ‘Look What's Growing In A Classroom On Goffe’
by | May 5, 2023 6:53 pm | Comments (31)
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Smith signs up with City Clerk staffer Michelle Lee Rodriguez.
As East Rocker Caroline Tanbee Smith filed papers to make official her first aldermanic run, Fair Havener Claudia Hererra readied to hand over the local legislative baton — to a candidate she says will build bridges between those neighborhoods and across the broader city if she’s elected to be Ward 9’s next representative.
by | May 5, 2023 4:07 pm | Comments (7)
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Hillhouse senior and aspiring future congresswoman Ma'Shai Roman.
School board student representative Ma’Shai Roman is on track to graduate from Hillhouse High School in less than two months to pursue a college degree in political science with the goal of one day becoming a U.S. congresswoman.
If you had read her that sentence two years ago, Roman likely wouldn’t have believed it — as she was in the midst of transferring to her third high school while struggling with her mental health, all against the backdrop of the isolating and education-disrupting effects of a global pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Ready For College, Hillhouse Senior Persevered’
by | May 5, 2023 2:05 pm | Comments (25)
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Elm City Montessori students lead a tour of Elm City Montessori's newest murals.
James Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera, and Harvey Milk are now watching over the halls of Elm City Montessori School — in newly unveiled mural portraits that fit in well with the Blake Street charter school’s anti-bias and anti-racist values.
by | May 4, 2023 8:49 am | Comments (0)
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The official ribbon cutting commences.
Neighborhood Music School launched a new recording studio and debuted its own record label, Equitone Records, with a press conference, ribbon cutting, and, of course, live music.
Continue reading ‘Ribbon Cut On Neighborhood Music School's New Recording Studio, Record Label’
by | May 2, 2023 2:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Imagining the Hiptec Suit Version 1
Behold the Hiptec Suit Version 1, a VR full suit created by a group of 10 eighth graders from Truman School on a field trip to DAE, formerly known as the afterschool program District Arts + Education.
Portable, adjustable, and a lightweight microfiber nylon, it features a body tracking belt that regulates the user’s temperature, a sensor that recognizes anxiety and tells you to breathe, and the option for virtual reality therapy sessions.
There’s just one caveat. Hiptec Suit Version 1 exists only on a whiteboard.
by | May 2, 2023 8:54 am | Comments (4)
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The "ladies in pink and green" kick off Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter at Saturday's kick off.
A local chapter of a historic Black sorority has teamed up with the city’s public school district to make sure kids who come to class on Saturdays don’t go home hungry.
Continue reading ‘Sorority Steps Up With Saturday School Meals’