The public schools’ team has been working hard to reach at-risk students during the pandemic.
(Opinion) Imagine that you are a middle-school teacher working with 25 students in a Connecticut online classroom. One student, Marcus, who had marginal school attendance in the previous years but no history of harmful behaviors, signs in to your online class occasionally and is mostly quiet. Suddenly, in the middle of one of your lessons, Marcus plays a popular but inappropriate track called “WAP.”
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Nov 15, 2020 10:36 am
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Goeler: Painful, needed decision.
Hamden schools — which have had success with hybrid learning — will nevertheless move to entirely-remote classes starting Nov. 23 until Jan. 19 because of the statewide spike in Covid-19 cases.
Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin and Kermit Carolina were ready to give an Augusta Lewis Troup School student everything he needed to connect with his remote classes.
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Nov 11, 2020 11:46 am
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Ridge Hill teachers: School feels safe, but we’re ready for remote.
Hamden schools have figured out how to operate safely in a pandemic — but it looks like fast-rising Covid-19 cases will force them to move to all-remote learning anyway starting Nov. 23.
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Nov 10, 2020 11:35 am
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Tracey: Probe sought.
First Student waited days to tell the city that 27 bus drivers were coming down with the coronavirus — leading outraged school officials to demand a reckoning for the “negligence” that ended with a two-week shutdown.
Carrie Giarnese signing Monday’s press conference for the hearing-impaired.
As a new Covid-19 wave spreads through New Haven, officials are doubling down on keeping city offices safe and looking into who spread obscene threats through one school’s remote-learning cybersphere.
Shandra Patton teaches preschoolers from her Troup classroom.
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Aiden Palmer at pre-announcment back-to-school event.
When Careene Stephenson broke the news to her 4‑year-old son Aiden Palmer that his in-person preschool classes would not start this November after all, he asked, “No school? No friends?”
Hundreds of families have chosen not to enroll their preschoolers and kindergarteners in New Haven Public Schools this year.
The sudden decline is part of a statewide drop in enrollment driven primarily by the youngest grades. In New Haven, the preschool program has shrunk by 13.5 percent and the kindergarten class has shrunk by 19.6 percent.
New Haven’s magnet schools are down 202 students in the wake of the decision to start the school year with remote-only learning. And a $3 million state grant is in jeopardy.
Four months after New Haven Academy Spanish teacher Luis Rivera came down with Covid-19, he feels lingering fatigue from the illness.
Rivera still manages to spend hours after school making sure that his students who speak limited English can finish their homework during the pandemic’s remote learning. He was once an English learner too.
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Nov 2, 2020 10:40 am
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(Opinion.) If you don’t know who the late Rita F. Pierson is, you probably aren’t a schoolteacher.
Pierson was a tireless educator of 40 years who famously declared in her inspirational TED Talk that “every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.”
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Oct 30, 2020 7:01 pm
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Following a spike of Covid-19 cases in the state, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng announced Friday evening that Hamden will roll back to the state’s “Phase II” partial economic shutdown guidelines in an attempt to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Oct 29, 2020 3:01 pm
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New Haven Academy freshman Jeremyah Newton at city learning hub.
The vast majority of New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) 20,500 students will continue learning all-online for the foreseeable future — as Mayor Justin Elicker announced the school system has pushed back its hybrid reopening date because of the spike in local Covid-19 cases.
And New Haven itself will revert to “Phase II” mode of partial economic shutdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Superintendent Iline Tracey: Most disengaged students do have computers and internet.
It is the ninth week of school and 3percent of New Haven Public Schools students still have not logged onto virtual classes at all. Another 11 percent, or 2,126 students, are logging on sporadically.
Grubaugh: A test so easy a kindergartener can do it.
Every teacher, lunch lady, custodian and high school student would take a weekly test to determine whether they have caught Covid-19 — without costing schools, workers or families a cent.
Yale professor Nathan Grubaugh revealed that proposal for weekly saliva testing at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
Activists raise the school-cop issue at a Black Lives Matter rally.
Police top brass and an activist youth mentor looked at the same data and saw two different stories.
Citywide Youth Coalition Executive Director Addys M. Castillo saw school administrators calling police officers on students instead of using other solutions. Assistant Police Chief Karl Jacobson saw officers successfully deescalating situations and avoiding arrests.
At Saturday’s youth center opening: sisters Melissa Atterberry-Jones, Melinda Atterberry-Chapman, Melony Atterberry-Brooks.
Melissa Atterberry-Jones understands that to raise a child, it takes a village. Hamden now understands that to make a village, it takes … Melissa Atterberry-Jones.
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Oct 23, 2020 4:58 pm
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School cafeteria workers posing with Mayor Justin Elicker on the front steps of City Hall.
Over a dozen public school cafeteria workers served up a petition to the mayor Friday in a push to save their jobs, and keep New Haven school children fed, during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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Oct 22, 2020 5:46 pm
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Superintendent Tracey gets tested at King Robinson.
“It doesn’t hurt, but it just felt funny, like the test shouldn’t be all the way up my nose,” New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey said with a smile after getting swabbed for Covid-19.
Pre-Covid-19 activity at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning Center.
Two new Covid-19 cases were reported within the New Haven Public Schools system, one at East Rock Community Magnet School and one at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning Center.
