by | Apr 29, 2020 2:06 pm | Comments (3)
The public schools are asking students and families to offer advice on how to deal with grading for the fourth quarter and the year given the shutdown of in-person classes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Apr 28, 2020 11:49 am | Comments (5)
Monday night’s Zoom community management team gathering.
Early next week an “open-air resource center” — otherwise known as a tent — is scheduled to pop up in Blake Field opposite the East Rock Community Magnet School, not far from homeless encampments in the woods near the Willow Street I‑91 off-ramps.
Its purpose: To offer medical treatment, food, and, potentially, testing for Covid-19 symptomatic people and to serve as a triage point for those homeless folks who decline to come into one of the city’s sheltered environments.
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by | Apr 28, 2020 10:17 am | Comments (2)
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Luke Austin and 5-year-old daughter Yvonne Michelle, about to make pancakes.
Luke Austin was having trouble with his 5‑year-old daughter’s online lessons. He could log into the online classroom but then got stuck; in 40 years as a cook, he has not needed to use computers.
A SWAT team from the public schools swung into action.
by | Apr 27, 2020 10:07 am | Comments (3)
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Yale PhD organizer Alex Kolokotronis.
Alex Kolokotronis had planned on spending the rest of his semester researching and writing on the history of labor organizing among New Haven Public Schools teachers.
Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, throwing his — and hundreds of his peers’ — carefully laid dissertation plans off track.
by | Apr 24, 2020 6:18 pm | Comments (3)
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City arts czar Adriane Jefferson at Friday’s Zoom briefing.
The city and the Arts Council have distributed over $132,000 in grants to 326 local artists, freelancers, and small nonprofits so far in an effort to keep New Haven’s creative economy afloat during the Covid-19 crisis.
by | Apr 23, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (2)
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A student waits to pick up a Chromebook at James Hillhouse High School in March.
City alders applauded Interim Superintendent Iline Tracey and her team for quickly closing the divide between students who can learn from home and those who can’t amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the same time, Tracey said that New Haven Public Schools has a long journey ahead. The school district has given out over 8,000 Chromebooks and iPads since Covid-19 hit the region and has 12,000 more to go. Many of the devices needed have not been purchased yet.
by | Apr 21, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (1)
Miss Erinn, a representative of the Miss Kendra Programs, beams over jaunty yet gentle piano music. She speaks directly into the camera. “Oh! Hello! I’ve been waiting for you! Wow, it’s so good to see you. Do you know what time it is?”
“It’s Miss Kendra Time!” children say. Miss Erinn’s smile gets even bigger. “It’s Miss Kendra Time,” she affirms. Without losing her welcoming tone, she continues. “Today we’re going to be talking about the coronavirus and the way that it has been affecting all the kids and families around this community and all over the country — even all over the world.”
Continue reading ‘Miss Kendra Helps Kids Deal With Covid-19 Fears’
by | Apr 20, 2020 9:01 pm | Comments (3)
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The Board of Education Finance and Operations committee Zooms in.
The initial tally is out: Covid-related closures will save New Haven schools around $650,000.
New Haven Public Schools CFO Phillip Penn delivered this news to the Board of Education Finance and Operations Committee on Monday evening over the videoconferencing tool Zoom.
by | Apr 20, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (5)
Assignments posted on Johanyx Rodriguez’s Google Classroom homepage, above.
It’s been a month since New Haven public schools closed to limit transmission of COVID-19. That’s a month without sports, without in person classes, and without being able to consistently see other students. Alternatively, it’s been a month with more sleep, more free time, and freedom to set one’s own schedule.
by | Apr 17, 2020 1:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Remote pre-K learning: Noél traces the letter X.
Jorgieliz Casanova continues to rise at 6 a.m. to begin her role in helping three generations set off to work and school in her Portsea Street household. But now not everybody is rushing out the door.
Continue reading ‘The Covid-19 Shuffle: 1 Home, 3 Generations’
by | Apr 17, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (0)
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Conte West Hills third grader Elio.
New Haven Reads tutor John Horkel and tutee Elio watched the grey circle in the corner of Elio’s Google Chrome screen spin. When the login page to children’s book website Epic! finally loaded, Elio froze — and then vanished from the Zoom video conference.
by | Apr 16, 2020 9:50 am | Comments (5)
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Free meal distribution outside Jepson School Wednesday.
As the city public school system transitions to a three-day-a-week free meal distribution schedule to reduce potential exposure to the novel coronavirus, school workers and hungry family members warned against limiting the schedule to such an extent that it becomes inconvenient for the people who need the food.
And a Board of Education member and top city school administrators contemplated bumping down the schedule even further to make sure that those involved don’t get sick.
by | Apr 15, 2020 3:05 pm | Comments (66)
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Elicker (at left): “Rev. Kimber is not on the council.” Kimber (at right): “I’m still on it.”
Mayor Justin Elicker appointed someone to replace the Rev. Boise Kimber to co-chair a city early-education council.
At least he thought he had. Kimber is still running the group.
Continue reading ‘Kimber, Elicker Square Off On Appointment’
by | Apr 15, 2020 1:30 pm | Comments (3)
Hamden Hall seventh grader John Raymond Wallis shows off one of the plastic ear-saver adapters he produced with his in-home 3D printer.
A Hamden private school is 3D printing “ear-saver adapters” to ease discomfort among hospital workers, who wear face masks during long shifts as they fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hamden Hall Country Day School’s adapters take the pressure of the mask off workers’ ears and help prevent irritation and chafing.
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by | Apr 14, 2020 4:50 pm | Comments (7)
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Superintendent Iline Tracey appearing Tuesday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
One month into Covid-related school closures, New Haven Public Schools administrators are looking beyond the immediate crisis of distributing food and technology towards long-term policy changes.
Continue reading ‘Schools Chief Eyes Long-Term Plans Post-Covid-19’
by | Apr 10, 2020 4:11 pm | Comments (8)
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YNHH healthcare workers watch as firefighters express their gratitude during a Thursday morning procession.
Nearly 50 elderly residents at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Grimes Center have tested positive for Covid-19, as have 10 seniors at Fair Haven’s Mary Wade Home, prompting the city to double down on its efforts to mitigate the spread of the infectious respiratory disease at local nursing homes.
by | Apr 10, 2020 10:09 am | Comments (2)
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Common Ground’s energy-efficient campus, now closed during pandemic.
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Math teacher Evan Green teaching through video.
A West Rock charter school that prides itself on hands-on, outdoors learning has had to “flip the classroom,” so to speak, during the Covid-19 pandemic — forcing teachers to build up online curricula and reserve virtual class time for checking in with students, and forcing students to adapt to a new educational life physically removed from their peers.
by | Apr 9, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (2)
Teachers and staff from Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning School cannot see each other or their preschoolers in person, so they created a virtual dance party to boost their spirits and get close to a pre-pandemic sense of normalcy.
Continue reading ‘Preschool Teacher Hosts Virtual Dance Party’
by | Apr 7, 2020 12:50 pm | Comments (2)
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Mom and child at after-school bus drop-off.
New Haven and Hamden school bus drivers will continue to get paychecks during the Covid-19 pandemic –- now not just because of a contract but also thanks to an executive order from Gov. Ned Lamont.
by | Apr 6, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Mom Aisha K. Staggers and daughter Amaya Elle Kelly.
The class of 2020 will forever remember this year as the one where everything in their world was turned on its ear and they were forced to learn early in life that normalcy can often be mistaken for complacency. At least that is what I observe in watching how the coronavirus is affecting my daughter, who is a member of that class at Hamden High School.
by | Apr 1, 2020 4:55 pm | Comments (4)
Every day can be pajama day, Metropolitan Business Academy Principal Mike Crocco told his students over a YouTube video released on Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Principal Promotes Perks Of Remote Schooling’
by | Apr 1, 2020 4:54 pm | Comments (0)
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Executive Director Henry Fernandez: LEAP is a family.
Around 40 percent of LEAP high schoolers have a family member who has lost a job due to Covid-19. While some of these families can access federal benefits to help their situations, undocumented families cannot.
Continue reading ‘Nonprofit Fills Covid-Related Gaps For Families’
by | Mar 31, 2020 12:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Despite ongoing efforts to keep the vacant former Strong School closed, a squatter apparently got inside — and a fire followed.
Continue reading ‘NHPS: Break-In Preceded Strong School Fire’
by | Mar 30, 2020 2:16 pm | Comments (29)
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Larry Conaway: What about Yale’s playing fields?
It may be too late to change his vote, but maybe not too late to start a conversation.
Continue reading ‘Conaway “Regrets” Career High Covid-19 Vote’
by | Mar 28, 2020 6:28 pm | Comments (5)
Starting Monday, many of New Haven’s students will go back to school, virtually, through the district’s new online learning system designed to keep kids in class during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Covid-19 Updates: Online Learning Starts Monday; School Custodian Tests Positive’