Breland: Coping with mid-year charter-school transfers.
Some 14.5 percent of all of Principal Sabrina Breland’s students at Wexler/Grant Community School transferred in last year after Oct. 1.
That statistic appeared in preliminary “data sets” the Board of Ed has begun examining in a complex quest to the best way of measure how schools perform and help them improve.
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Dec 8, 2014 12:02 pm
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Tim Shortt, New Haven’s new “teacher of the year,” chose an unusual way to get his second-graders to learn about the 50 states: He sends them on “mystery Skype” dates with people across the country to divine their residence through savvy geographical queries.
Marian Woodson, grandmother of a student at Wexler Grant.
Connecticut’s charter school movement showed its political muscle Wednesday by bringing more than 6,000 parents, teachers, community leaders, and students to form a sea of neon green T‑shirts across the New Haven Green — while remaining coy about the details of its school-reform agenda.
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Nov 27, 2014 5:21 am
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Students were at first hesitant to eat one parent’s homemade Puerto Rican pasteles, but soon gobbled them down along with the traditional Thanksgiving turkey — part of a Fair Haven school’s continuing quest to involve kids’ families.
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Nov 26, 2014 12:53 pm
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Paris Lewis clarified her understanding of fractions when she wrote up her family’s cornbread recipe.
Who says publishing isn’t a sweet industry any more?
It is when you’re bringing out a cookbook and you get to eat red velvet cake, chocolate balls, mud pie, popcorn, and cookies galore, based on your own family recipes.
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Nov 18, 2014 12:44 pm
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Greenberg Monday night with Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola, an opponent of grade requirements.
Unless alders make additional changes, grades and attendance records could still be a factor in eligibility for future student board of education representatives.
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Oct 31, 2014 1:06 pm
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Tammara McDonald, Julianne Frenchett, Tayra Perez, Stephanie Persiani and Rahmel Green with Principal Edith Johnson (third from right) before leading the national anthem and the pledge of allegiance at Thursday’s rally.
Most were too young to vote, but hundreds of high-school students at least got a civics lesson — and a taste of the excitement of campaign politics — when Michelle Obama came to Wilbur Cross Thursday.
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Oct 31, 2014 12:17 pm
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Pam Franco wants to spend more time in classrooms to evaluate her teachers, but often finds herself “sidetracked” by student discipline or family crises.
In the five years since New Haven launched a lauded school-reform drive, it has increased the number of students enrolled in college for two years — but failed to close the performance gap between the city and the rest of the state.
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Oct 24, 2014 1:23 pm
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Mark Sanchez, Yesenia Ureña and classmates peer at the caracoles.
When Rocio Barahona told her students she would bring out the “caracoles,” a wave of excitement rolled through the first-grade classroom.
“Caracoles! Caracoles!” they loudly whispered to each other, as their teacher pulled out tanks of small aquatic snails — and charted a new approach to bilingual education.
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Oct 22, 2014 1:43 pm
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Harries with student council leaders.
Maybe they should have to write a short speech, or make a video. But students running for a seat on New Haven’s Board of Education shouldn’t have to earn B or C averages, citywide student council leaders concluded.
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Oct 17, 2014 8:46 am
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Quinnipiac Principal Nathman talks with parent Marquis Moore.
Quinnipiac Elementary School students got a special reminder to show up for picture day the next morning — from their principal, who appeared at their doorsteps to personally deliver the announcement.
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Oct 8, 2014 1:46 pm
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Superintendent Garth Harries joins the class activity
State and city administrators joined Elm City Montessori School students in semi-structured playtime Wednesday morning, during the school’s official opening six weeks after classes had begun.
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Oct 6, 2014 3:42 am
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New Teacher-Developed Curricular Resources Available; Partnership Begins 38th Year
Curriculum units that teachers from 19 New Haven public schools developed as Fellows in four Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars in 2014 are available at this website. (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/)
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Oct 3, 2014 1:18 pm
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Quinnipiac parent Laconi praised the school’s high standards.
If a child graduates from a K‑4 school and the only neighborhood middle school with available spots begins in sixth grade, where should that student go?
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Sep 22, 2014 8:06 am
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Teacher Tori Aroworade signed up for the pilot program.
Pending federal approval, New Haven teachers will soon be able to apply to live in public housing rent-free in exchange for providing after-school programs for students.
