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Student Saanon Dyahatou.
Hamden High students crowded the school courtyard this week to illustrate through colorful chalk artworks the ways they are “Proud to Be.”
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by | May 26, 2022 5:28 pm | Comments (27)
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Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
by | May 26, 2022 3:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Hamden’s current alternative education configuration will stay the same next year, now that the Board of Education has decided against a plan to outsource its services.
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.
by | May 25, 2022 5:32 pm | Comments (4)
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Neighbors welcome: Clancy Emanuel begins compost demonstration at expanded operation.
A heap of discarded orange peels, eggshells, peanuts, and vegetables of every hue came one step closer to becoming reusable compost — by way of long shovels, animal poop, dead leaves, a group of committed community members, and an influx of federal funding for Common Ground High School’s urban farm.
by | May 25, 2022 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Zach contemplating the "Challenge" sign.
A new guided walking trail has opened in northern Hamden with an aim to help students — and others in the community — connect with nature and their feelings.
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by | May 25, 2022 8:53 am | Comments (12)
Tracey: You earned it.
Full-time and part-time New Haven Public School (NHPS) employees who have been bearing the brunt of staff shortages, upticks in violence, and learning gaps will be thanked for their commitments to the district with $1,000 and $500 retention bonuses.
by | May 24, 2022 5:51 pm | Comments (7)
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Teachers and "structured literacy" advocates Sarah Levine and Timothy Gersch at WNHH FM.
According to one side, the issue is settled: “Balanced literacy” has failed, and cities like New Haven must change how they teach reading or continue to worsen the achievement gap and hold back another generation.
According to another side, the jury’s still out.
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by | May 24, 2022 11:38 am | Comments (3)
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Ralph "Flash" Hawkins with fellow athletes at Monday evening's event.
Family was the theme at a college signing day program for four track stars at Hillhouse High School — and that extended to the enduring bonds formed between coaches and teammates.
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‘Hillhouse Track Stars
Sign Onto Their Future’
by | May 22, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (4)
John Tarka.
The Board of Education is scheduled to vote Monday night on a slate of new appointments and transfers, including the selection of John Tarka as the new principal of Wilbur Cross High School.
by | May 20, 2022 1:41 pm | Comments (11)
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Malacki Lewis: It's working. Keep it.
Malacki Lewis was failing all of his classes at Hamden High School until his mother found out about an alternative learning environment known as the Hamden Collaborative Learning Center. Since transitioning to the smaller public program, he has fallen in love with learning and plans to graduate alongside his peers at both HHS and HCLC this spring before attending Gateway Community College.
by | May 20, 2022 9:36 am | Comments (1)
Friends Center for Children sent in this article and these photos about a recent event it organized.
What do we want? To fix child care! – and have some fun along the way.
Last Saturday marked the 10th New Haven Family Stroll and Festival, an annual event to raise awareness and much-needed funds for high-quality early care and education. After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this year’s event grew by over 300 people and had over 1,220 children, parents, educators and advocates converge at the Quinnipiac River Park for a day of awareness, fundraising and family fun
by | May 19, 2022 1:58 pm | Comments (3)
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Gary Moore throws record-breaking shot put at Bowen Field Wednesday.
Gary Moore Jr. headed into one of his final meets in a Hillhouse jersey Wednesday with pressure on his back and dozens of people surrounding the throwing area. He knew he had a lot of people to impress. More importantly, he knew he had a state record to break.
by | May 19, 2022 1:08 pm | Comments (0)
Hamden Dragons' jersey in honor of Fred Gross.
The late Fred "Gee-Man" Gross.
Hamden High’s baseball team took the field for its final regular season home game Wednesday night amid a championship run with new jerseys — reading “Gee-Man” on one sleeve and a ribbon picturing on the other.
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by | May 19, 2022 11:56 am | Comments (2)
Council members' anxiety begins to show as midnight approaches.
It was 60 seconds until midnight. A half-mill tax cut hung in the balance.
by | May 17, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
Superintendent Goeler with Asst. Superintendent Chris Melillo and schools CFO Tom Ariola.
Four months after Hamden schools’ superintendent announced his retirement, one of the town’s assistant superintendents is also planning a move out of the district — to become the new leader of Newtown’s schools.
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by | May 17, 2022 8:57 am | Comments (9)
Mrs. Lawson was no pushover at the short-lived "Sheridan Annex," which burned down.
The downward-sloping lot at the corner of Prospect and Division streets was easy to overlook amid the mansions, schools and structures of Yale University and a low-slung apartment complex. A patch of out-of-season growth, perhaps a community garden, is the site’s only defining characteristic.
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by | May 16, 2022 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE.
High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
by | May 12, 2022 4:49 pm | Comments (29)
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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.
by | May 9, 2022 12:45 pm | Comments (2)
Symone Roberts, Kettia Saint-Surin, Joanna Ishmael, and Michaelin Thomas: Help overcoming the debt trap.
Aspiring teachers like Symone Roberts will soon be able to fill vacant teacher roles in Hamden — and diversify the ranks — thanks to a program boosted by an infusion of federal money.
by | May 9, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (14)
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Principal Edith Johnson at a 2019 rally on behalf of a Cross student being detained by ICE.
Students at New Haven’s two largest high schools will return in the fall with new principals in charge.
by | May 6, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (5)
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Students gasp at Renfrow's two football rings ...
... then notice the size of his hands.
After discovering a motivational Instagram page run by Hill Central School students, pro footballer Justin Renfrow popped into town to offer some real-life inspiration.
by | May 6, 2022 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
The following item was submitted about Teacher Appreciation Week.
by | May 6, 2022 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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The cast of BKLYN at Hillhouse.
“It’s good to be back. Today is very special for us because two and a half year ago, today was our last day,” said Ty Scurry, who runs the Academic Theater Company, the drama club based out of Hillhouse High School, as the cast prepared to do a full run-through of its upcoming production, BKLYN, which will run at the school’s auditorium from May 12 to May 14.
by | May 3, 2022 11:31 am | Comments (9)
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Ahmad Ward, Morgan Brown, Mike Nice, Latoya Smith at job fair.
Aspiring teachers learned of opportunities in New Haven classrooms, as New Haven’s schools seek to fill 100 vacant classroom positions by teaming up with local colleges and universities to help more educators gain teacher certification.