by | Nov 21, 2007 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
Teacher conference night: James Via raced to meet with 12 teachers to learn if Michael’s drumming and trumpeting in the school band are calming him down in academic classes, if Jameisha is working up to her reading and writing potential; and if Nate’, the quiet learner of the three, has begun to speak up in class.
by | Nov 9, 2007 11:52 am | Comments (1)
The big news at St. Martin DePorres Academy for Virginia Cordero’s family this week wasn’t the expected continuing stellar performance of sixth-grade wonder Xena, but a major change in mom’s life that will bring her to school more.
by | Sep 24, 2007 2:18 pm | Comments (1)
She has always been active in the school lives of her children. However, this was going to be Pastor Susan Hogan’s first experience as a charter-school parent. That commitment, she was about to learn at Amistad Academy’s first Parent Leadership Council meeting, might entail not only bake sales but also boarding a bus to lobby legislators in Hartford.
by | Sep 20, 2007 1:26 pm | Comments (0)
The race was on: James Via had teachers to meet for all three of his children, not to mention a PTO election.
by | Sep 10, 2007 11:13 am | Comments (0)
Fifth-grader Brandon was experiencing some “issues” as he adjusted from last year’s home schooling to the demanding social and academic routines of Amistad Academy. The school called his parents, Fred and Susan Hogan, to come in. Ten minutes later, they were at the school’s offices.
by | Aug 30, 2007 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
This remarkable young single dad, James Via, made it with his three kids to orientation night at King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School, where the principal told parents that their involvement must go beyond checking homework.
by | Aug 27, 2007 10:12 am | Comments (11)
In preparation for a public hearing tonight on proposed new rules for when parents can visit their children in school and speak at school board meetings, a group of parents is banding together to denounce what they call a message to “shut up.”
Continue reading ‘Parents Rally Against New School Board Rules’
by | Aug 14, 2007 1:14 pm | Comments (4)
The newest Board of Education member is a single mom who has headed the parent-teacher organization at two different schools. That’s not an accident.
by | Aug 9, 2007 1:36 pm | Comments (0)
Screening young kids for disorders like speech delay, and getting info to parents who need it, were topics of the day as a room of child care professionals — but only a handful of parents — met again to work on a master plan focusing on children’s critical first few years.
by | Jul 23, 2007 10:35 am | Comments (0)
Marc Palmieri had a clear message on the last day of the New Haven Public Schools’ Summer Parent Training Institute: parenting is hard, and you deserve a meaningful partnership with school personnel to make a success of it.
by | Jul 20, 2007 10:54 am | Comments (2)
Parents have to keep a lot of balls in the air at the same time, but this parent, James Moye, wasn’t just demonstrating the ongoing juggling act. He was also learning how science is taught in the New Haven Public schools — in this instance learning the scientific method and how to conduct an experiment using bouncing balls— so he can help his own child, a student at King-Robinson, and other parents understand the scientific method and learning process.
by | Jul 18, 2007 2:06 pm | Comments (15)
But she did make her stand outside their Edgewood Avenue home near Norton Street holding the above sign. Click on the play arrow below to watch them explain why — and find out about the hand lent by Staples. Click here to comment.
by | Jul 16, 2007 10:22 am | Comments (10)
This little girl could hardly wait for her turn in the Moonwalk, as she and 200 parents and kids turned out for a summer celebration at Edgewood Park sponsored by the grassroots parents’ activist group, Teach Our Children. Amid the play was talk about why city public school children can’t bring textbooks home from school or have recess — and what parents can do about it.
by | Jul 12, 2007 9:58 am | Comments (2)
Each year hundreds of New Haveners are born to teen mothers or without prenatal care. They start school behind the ball, not yet ready to learn. More than 100 people gathered at Conte-West Hills School to come up with a plan to turn that around.
Continue reading ‘Parents, Teachers, Docs Seek An Earlier Start’
by | Jun 27, 2007 9:57 am | Comments (6)
Not many kids say that attending their high school graduation is going to feel like a funeral. But Laura Jimenez did. That’s how much she’s going to miss the love and caring of her teachers at Career High School, who function as a kind of adoptive family for her and were the key to her success.