LEAP Halloween Party Set For Fun, Fright
by | Oct 24, 2017 12:32 pm | Comments (2)
The following was submitted by LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez.
That spooky time of year is coming back to New Haven, and you are invited!
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Hall Of Famers Inducted
by | Oct 11, 2017 10:47 am | Comments (3)
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Inductee State Rep. Toni Walker, a leading community college advocate at the Capitol.
Gateway Community College submitted the following release.
More that 200 from the Greater New Haven community gathered in the Curran Community Center at Gateway Community College on Oct. 5 to celebrate six new inductees at the Gateway Community College Foundation’s 20th Hall of Fame Induction and Celebration.
Westville Halloween Story Contest
by | Oct 4, 2017 11:55 am | Comments (1)
Mary Shelley wrote her now classic work Frankenstein as the result of a writing competition, which included her husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron during what she described as a “wet and ungenial summer.”
Language and Learning: Home, School, and Community
by | Oct 2, 2017 7:02 am | Comments (0)
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Luis Chavez-Brumell, Madeline Negrón, Ann Anderberg, Marilyn Calderón, and Abie Benítez
Josiah Brown, a volunteer member of the board of the Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven, sent this account of an event in which the Coalition was involved.
On Thursday, September 29, the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) hosted a forum on “Language and Learning: Home, School, and Community,” at the Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School. Co-sponsored also by the Connecticut Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (CALAS) and the Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven, the event featured a panel of the following speakers:
Ann Anderberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU)
Marilyn Calderón, M.Ed., Executive Director, Connecticut Parent Power
Luis Chavez-Brumell, Manager, Young Minds & Family Learning Department, New Haven Public Library
(Another invited speaker, Coral Ortiz – the Hillhouse H.S. 2017 valedictorian and a former member of New Haven and Connecticut Boards of Education – appeared despite not feeling well, but she was encouraged to go home and rest.)
The moderator was Abie Benítez, Ph.D., Director of Instruction & English-Language Learning, NHPS; Madeline Negrón, Ph.D., another Director of Instruction who oversees early childhood for the district, offered opening remarks. (Both colleagues are officers of CALAS, as well.)
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Literacy Coalition News
by | Sep 14, 2017 6:37 am | Comments (0)
Josiah Brown, a volunteer member of the board of the Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven, submitted this report.
The Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven is welcoming a new colleague to its volunteer board of directors: J. Gregory McVerry, assistant professor of education at Southern Connecticut State University. Having earned his Ph.D. at UConn in Educational Psychology, Cognition Instruction and Learning Technologies through a program recognized for “new literacies,” Greg McVerry is a former K‑12 public school teacher, including five years teaching sixth grade. He characterizes himself as “a teacher and researcher interested in the intersection of literacy and technology.” At Southern, he says, “I teach early reading, children’s literature and new literacies classes. I was also the literacy and technology coordinator for Gear Up.”
New Haven Needs Choices
by | Jul 28, 2017 7:51 am | Comments (1)
The following opinion article was written by retired Hillhouse High School teacher Robert Gibson.
“Sunnysideup” Bringing Solar To New Haven
by | Jul 20, 2017 7:10 am | Comments (2)
The following was submitted by Lynne Bonnett of the New Haven Energy Task Force.
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Fair Haven Strong Rallies Community
by | Jun 19, 2017 7:13 am | Comments (0)
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Outreach staffers, Stacy (left) and Cassandra (right)
The following recap of the Fair Haven Strong Fair was submitted by New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) partnership members Curtis Antrum, Joanne Simiola and Sabrina Whiteman.
A To-Do List For The Next Schools Chief
by | Jun 15, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (3)
The following was submitted by Nataliya Braginsky, teacher at Metropolitan Business Academy, on behalf of the New Haven Educators’ Collective regarding the search for a new superintendent for NHPS.
Scholarship Fund Grants $230,000 To 230 Teens
by | Jun 14, 2017 7:40 am | Comments (0)
The following was submitted by the New Haven Scholarship Fund.
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Free Summer Swim Team Tryouts
by | Jun 14, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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The following was submitted by Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership.
Fill That Library!
by | Jun 7, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
The following was submitted by Peter Schaller, communications director at the United Way of Greater New Haven.
In Jocelyn Square, A White Oak For Theresa Carr
by | May 25, 2017 1:45 pm | Comments (2)
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This year marks the third anniversary of New Haven activist Theresa Carr‘s death. The following was submitted by community member and former Spinsters Opposed to Nuclear Genocide (SONG) member Joan Cavanagh, a friend of Carr.
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ECA Gets Its Fundraising On
by | May 25, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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“Time Compression,” by Juliana Ragonese
The following was contributed by Caroline Rosenstone, chair of the Creative Writing Department at the Educational Center for the Arts.
LEAP Jumps Into The Pool
by | May 24, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (2)
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LEAP is starting the summer off in the pool, with both swim classes and a new community swim team. The following information comes from Elvert Eden, director of youth development and aquatics at the organization.
Dwight Team Thanks Yale For 25 Years Together
by | May 10, 2017 1:56 pm | Comments (0)
Fair Haven Gets Its Stroll On
by | May 10, 2017 7:21 am | Comments (0)
The following was submitted by Carolyn Christmann and Allyx Schiavone:
Solar Youth Keeps It Clean At Winterbrook
by | May 3, 2017 12:56 pm | Comments (0)
Solar Youth Inc. green jobs interns spent a recent Saturday tackling litter and trash around the Wintergreen Brook.
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Wilbur Cross Takes 5th At ProStart Invitational
by | May 3, 2017 11:50 am | Comments (1)
The Wilbur Cross management team placed fifth out of 43 in the National ProStart Student Invitational held recently in Charleston, S.C.
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Probus Club Expands Efforts To Help Homeless
by | Apr 27, 2017 7:17 am | Comments (0)
Ed Botwick, Probus past president, Les Faiman, activities chairman, Meredith Benson, director of operations and the Rev. Steven A. Cousin, Jr., both of the Bethel AME Church, Roy Lukacs, Probus past national president and Bill Kegeles, treasurer.
The Probus Club of Greater New Haven (formerly Hamden Probus) was founded nearly 100 years ago to help people in the community with special needs, and the club continues to do that through an expanded effort to supply survival items to the homeless in the area.
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The Magic Of Science
by | Apr 27, 2017 7:13 am | Comments (0)
Crystal R. Emery of STEM submitted the following article:
In 2015, President Barack Obama said, “[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.”
How To Help Students In Need LEAP Into Prom Season
by | Apr 16, 2017 8:47 am | Comments (1)
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LEAPers JC Leana and Leandrea Mitchell at 2016 prom.
The following was submitted by LEAP:
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Rising Stars Honored
by | Apr 6, 2017 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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Davis Arts and Academics Magnet School student Indira Akilotan with Mayor Harp.
The following was submitted by Mauro-Sheridan teacher Eva Schultz.
New Haven Learns—Then Teaches—Jeju 4.3
by and | Mar 29, 2017 7:47 am | Comments (2)
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The Jeju 4.3 Peace Memorial Hall.
The following was submitted by Career High School Teacher Chris Brennan and Metropolitan Business Academy Teacher Max Comando.
Learn To Swim
by | Mar 20, 2017 7:34 am | Comments (0)
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A LEAPer learns to swim.
The following was submitted by Elvert Eden, director of youth development and aquatics at LEAP.