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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.
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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.
Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón with current NHPS leader Iline Tracey.
Former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) teacher, principal, and director of education and current Hartford Public Schools Acting Deputy Superintendent Madeline Negrón will become the city’s next top schools official starting July 1, thanks to a unanimous vote of approval taken by the Board of Education Wednesday afternoon.
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Apr 3, 2023 4:59 pm
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Susan Comito takes a swing as pickleball enthusiasts square off at the Floyd Little Athletic Center-hosted regional tournament (below).
“Let’s pickleball,” city youth and rec director Gwendolyn Busch Williams called out, her words carrying through the rafters of Floyd Little Athletic Center and eliciting cascades of cheers and hoots.
Thus launched a scene unprecedented in the 385-year history of New Haven: hundreds of picklers pocking, popping, and dinking across a sea of orange nets in the 100,000-square-foot athletic space.
Goffe Terrace looking west towards Winthrop Saturday.
Two men were shot and killed in a parked car on Winthrop Avenue Saturday morning, becoming the city’s seventh and eighth homicide victims so far this year.
Sayed Taha at NHPS career fair: “Students here also need a lot of help, love and support, and I hope I can give them that as a teacher.”
After teaching English in his home country of Afghanistan as recently as nine months ago, new New Haven resident Sayed Taha hopes to pick his educator career back up as a New Haven Public Schools teacher.
Taha was one of roughly 150 interested candidates to pursue that potential job opportunity at the district’s career fair — all as he continues to work with NHPS on moving up from his current role as a Hillhouse tutor by first receiving his teacher certification.
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Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am
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Warren Leftridge, Finn Crumlish, Amelia Tamborra-Walton.
Seymour, who works in a flower shop, has found an unusual plant. He stumbled across it during a total eclipse and has brought it to the store, where it’s attracting customers. His boss, Mr. Mushnik is pleased. But Seymour has discovered a terrible secret: the plant only grows by being fed human blood, and is ever hungry for more. Plus, it seems to be able to talk. What is Seymour going to do? And how will all of this affect the relationship he hopes to have with his co-worker, Audrey?
SCSU Prez Joe Bertolino, heading back to home state.
Joe Bertolino plans to step down from his role as president of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) this summer to take up a new role leading a university in his home state of New Jersey.
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Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
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Mar 1, 2023 9:05 am
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BOMUS second graders in cup-stacking competition.
Special education teacher Rebecca Smith shows off hula hooping skills.
Hula hooping, dance parties, coloring, and team cup-stacking competitions helped the students and staff of the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) decompress mid-school year.
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At Friday's Black History Month celebration at Barack Obama School. "What Black history means to me is that I get to celebrate the Black people who made the world a better place," said one student.
Students honored after "caught being STRONG."
Perfect attendance, Black trailblazers, and the ability to gather in-person as a school again were all causes for celebration Friday, at a student-and-staff-led Black History Month event hosted by Barack H. Obama Magnet University School.
Attendees at Wednesday's superintendent search community meeting. Top row, left to right: Robert Gibson, Sean Reeves, Margaret Mary Gethings. Middle row: Kim Rogers, Rev. Joseph Champagne, Kelvin Rutledge. Bottom row: Shafiq Abdussabur, Shannon Mykins, and Leslie Blatteau.
Troup School reading instructor Pamela J. Tonge needs the next superintendent’s help in bridging the divide separating administrators and parents from teachers like herself, who work daily to help young students catch up to grade-level literacy despite a lack of classroom resources and respect.
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Feb 16, 2023 3:52 pm
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An illustration of the upcoming Stone Street senior housing.
A Branford-based developer won permission to replace four single-family homes with 65 new apartments in Beaver Hills, following site plan approval for a project seeking to bring more income-restricted housing for the area’s elderly.
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.
Metropolitan Business Academy students left their smoke-scarred high school Wednesday and assembled in Hillhouse’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse to shoot hoops and play Four Square volleyball — and come together as a community at a time when it’s tough to be a teacher or a student.
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Jan 27, 2023 11:00 am
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State Treasurer Erick Russell with PROUD Academy board member and former city Corporation Counsel John Rose at SCSU event on Thursday.
The nation’s first Black openly gay state official met the organizers of what hopes to become the first LGBTQ-centered private school in Connecticut — and one of only a handful in the country.
Their message about being “firsts” in an era of anti-gay backlash was identical and impassioned: Don’t just be your authentic self. Celebrate that self, too.
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Jan 23, 2023 8:51 am
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Cabrera.
With something like a gambit, New Haven Symphony Orchestra music director candidate Donato Cabrera scored a pedagogical victory, showing the audience a wide range of sounds with a selection of pieces designed to show off different sections of the orchestra before bringing a full symphony orchestra at the close.
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Dec 8, 2022 9:16 am
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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.”
Models walk the runway at 42nd annual Arts Awards.
The red carpet rolled out. An endless stream of apizza flew in the door straight from Big Green Truck’s ovens. DJ Cookie filled the room with tunes to get everyone on their feet.
And New Haven’s artists, designers, and fashionistas — some professional, some amateur, and a few still in strollers — gathered for an only-in-the-Elm-City celebration.
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Nov 29, 2022 9:07 am
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Stone St. houses, slated for demolition ...
... to be replaced by 65 new apartments.
A Branford-based developer plans to knock down four rented single-family houses and build 65 new apartments for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, according to a new 17-year local tax break application for a project slated to go up in the shadow of West Rock.
