Examples Set For Parent Communication
by | Dec 23, 2014 9:13 am | Comments (1)
Michael Golia said Columbus Family Academy parents flock to the school’s meetings in part because they are allowed to bring their children, and because dinner is served.
Books
Schools Substitute Mediation For Expulsions
by | Dec 22, 2014 9:16 am | Comments (12)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
JoAnne Wilcox remembers asking school social workers how to help her child through disciplinary problems. She received “glazed looks” —and was told, “I don’t know how to help you.” Now she hopes a new “restorative” system will help the “bullies” and the “drug dealers” succeed in straightening out.
Continue reading ‘Schools Substitute Mediation For Expulsions’
Students May Petition Way To School Board
by | Dec 15, 2014 9:06 am | Comments (4)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
High-school students wanting to serve on New Haven’s Board of Education would have to petition for signatures from the peers — including from peers at other schools — according to the latest proposal about how to set up new elections.
Continue reading ‘Students May Petition Way To School Board’
Student Debate Tourney Homes In On Restorative Justice
by | Dec 15, 2014 7:45 am | Comments (1)
Contributed Photos
This article was submitted by Rachel Heerema of the Citywide Youth Coalition.
The City of New Haven Youth Department, New Haven Public Schools, Yale University Urban Debate League and Citywide Youth Coalition hosted the first high school student debate tournament in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Student Debate Tourney Homes In On Restorative Justice’
A Week Later, Charter Rally Reverberates In Town
by | Dec 11, 2014 6:23 pm | Comments (16)
Aliyaa Swaby Photo
Harp: “Over the top.”
A mass pro-charter school rally aimed at influencing people statewide may have backfired, at least temporarily, with two allies in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘A Week Later, Charter Rally Reverberates In Town’
New Strong School Needs $9.5M From City
by | Dec 11, 2014 9:09 am | Comments (11)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Clark: Invest in repairs.
The Board of Education is seeking city money to help construct a new home for Strong School on Southern Connecticut State University’s campus that would bring aspiring teachers closer to the classroom, as part of a six-school capital plan unveiled this week.
What We Learned— And What We’re Learning
by | Dec 10, 2014 1:06 pm | Comments (1)
As students spoke, their faces appeared on a television screen across the room — and will soon appear on television screens across the state — as part of one organization’s efforts to let the voices of the youth be heard.
Data Breakdown Highlights Transience Challenge
by | Dec 9, 2014 1:08 pm | Comments (14)
Melissa Bailey File Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘Data Breakdown Highlights Transience Challenge’
Vet-Supply Salesman Morphs Into Teacher Of Year
by | Dec 8, 2014 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘Vet-Supply Salesman Morphs Into Teacher Of Year’
Charter Advocates Pack The Green
by | Dec 3, 2014 1:45 pm | Comments (37)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Amistad teacher Francisco Cerna at the rally.
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.
Alders OK Highville Charter SciPark Move
by | Dec 2, 2014 12:54 pm | Comments (5)
A Hamden-based charter school that mostly serves students from Newhallville will soon call Science Park home.
Bomb Scare Empties Cross; Gas Leak Empties Terminal
by | Dec 1, 2014 3:18 pm | Comments (0)
Authorities cleared Wilbur Cross High School around 1 p.m. Monday because of a bomb scare.
Continue reading ‘Bomb Scare Empties Cross; Gas Leak Empties Terminal’
Turkey Lunch Lures Parents To School
by | Nov 27, 2014 5:21 am | Comments (1)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
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.
School Cookbook Authors Publish, And Eat
by | Nov 26, 2014 12:53 pm | Comments (1)
Allan Appel Photo
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.
Swordplay Breaks Out At Co-Op High
by | Nov 20, 2014 2:55 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
Co-Op students Arinze O’Kwuosah and Donijah Collier rehearse the run up to a sword fight.
“Put your point down and then bring it straight up,” Jim Andreassi said. “He’s a beautiful man. I don’t want to lose any of that.”
President, Cabinet Sworn In
by | Nov 18, 2014 3:59 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
The super swears in Columbus Treasurer Aylaya Mack.
Nayeli Tenezaca wants to save animals from extinction, so she ran for president of her middle school — and won.
Grades, Attendance Still On Table As Factors For Student Board Of Education Hopefuls
by | Nov 18, 2014 12:44 pm | Comments (5)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
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.
Charter School Closer To SciPark Move
by | Nov 17, 2014 1:11 pm | Comments (2)
Michael Shulansky Photo
Students testify at City Hall.
Highville Charter School’s Young Diplomats debated themselves one step closer to a new school building in Science Park.
Teacher “Bridges” Language, Culture Gap
by | Nov 3, 2014 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Ingrid Cuevas-Gregory wants students to leave her class not just speaking English but also “looking adults in the eye.”
At Cross Campaign Rally, Old School Meets New School
by | Oct 31, 2014 1:06 pm | Comments (4)
Paul Bass Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘At Cross Campaign Rally, Old School Meets New School’
Principals Feel Time Squeeze
by | Oct 31, 2014 12:17 pm | Comments (3)
Melissa Bailey Photo
Pam Franco wants to spend more time in classrooms to evaluate her teachers, but often finds herself “sidetracked” by student discipline or family crises.
School Reform Misses Some Numerical Targets
by | Oct 28, 2014 8:56 am | Comments (15)
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.
Continue reading ‘School Reform Misses Some Numerical Targets’
Clinton Avenue Gets Fluent
by | Oct 24, 2014 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
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.
Panel: City Can Do More For Its Teachers
by | Oct 24, 2014 12:02 pm | Comments (13)
Mercy Quaye Photo
Cicarella: Use data better.
Paul Bass Photo
Rau: “No excuses.”
To figure out how to better support and evaluate teachers in and outside of the classroom, ask the teachers what they need.
Students: Grades Shouldn’t Matter For Board Seat
by | Oct 22, 2014 1:43 pm | Comments (8)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘Students: Grades Shouldn’t Matter For Board Seat’