LaToya Howard (right) with Elm City Montessori's David Weinreb.
The following writeup was submitted by Elm City Montessori School to celebrate Thursday’s recognition of statewide parental involvement awardee LaToya Howard.
Elm City Montessori School parent and former NHPS T.A.P.S award winner LaToya Howard was honored at the Connecticut Family & Community Engagement Conference in Rocky Hill on Thursday as one of five recipients of this year’s State Education Resource Center (SERC) Parental Involvement Recognition Award.
NHPS first-month suspension data from 2019 to 2023, with no data for 2020's remote year.
In-school and out-of-school suspensions are on the decline, with 151 taking place during the first month of the current school year — in comparison to 205 during that same time last year.
Even with that drop, the suspension numbers are still above where the district was pre-pandemic, when the district saw 142 suspensions in the first month of the 2019 school year.
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Oct 19, 2023 9:40 am
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Nathan Hale's Trudy Anderson on the Spanish-teaching job in class.
Nathan Hale Spanish teacher Trudy Anderson showed the seasons el invierno, la primavera, el verano, and el otoño on her classroom Smart Board then asked students “¿Cuál es tu favorito?”
Board of Ed members Ed Joyner and Darnell Goldson on Monday.
A team-building exercise prompted formerly-dueling Board of Education members Darnell Goldson and Ed Joyner to cheer each other on — in derailing that team-building exercise.
Darnell Goldson at Monday's Board of Education meeting.
Darnell Goldson has officially ended his bid for reelection to the Board of Education, winding down a nearly eight-year stretch helping govern the school system — and leaving school board candidate Andrea Downer uncontested in her run to take Goldson’s place.
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Oct 17, 2023 12:12 pm
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Student broadcasters on set, ready to report.
John S. Martinez School eighth graders perfected the lights, turned on their camera, and were ready for the action of bringing back the school’s Sea Sky News broadcast.
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Jeremiah McCullough, Christopher Samuels, Azaad Mamoon.
All through the play Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau — running at New Haven Academy from Oct. 19 to Oct.21 — trumpeter Blue struggles with his music. He’s trying to play just the right note. Some days he gets close. Some days he’s a million miles away. But he’s starting to think he’s never going to get it. It’s an encapsulation of the conditions of his life, the way everything he has is starting to slip away from him. And it’s driving him a little crazy.
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Oct 13, 2023 4:40 pm
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A student at Metropolitan Business Academy high school was tracked down by the U.S. Secret Service for an interview after allegedly posting an online threat against the president.
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Oct 13, 2023 12:22 pm
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Albertus Magnus' parking lot solar array: Just the beginning.
Solar panel canopies are coming to the parking lots of Hill Central and Beecher schools, as part of a city school district effort to become more climate friendly and energy efficient.
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Oct 10, 2023 10:18 am
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Emonie Jackson, mastering pop art with Hillhouse art teacher Rebecca LeQuire.
Carlos Kirklan: Art is "an escape," and a chance to create.
With pop artist Keith Haring in mind, Hillhouse High School junior Emonie Jackson imagined up a chicken leg, to-go cup, and ketchup bottle all with arms and legs — and then penned those images to paper, honing her own creative style and skills amid her classroom’s dive into recent art history.
Outside of Fair Haven School in September, amid school-closing heat.
The school district currently has 12 repair workers to cover 56 buildings — posing perhaps the largest roadblock to keeping schools open amid heat waves.
Moisture bubbles and tears in the field house track as of Wednesday.
The city school district’s facilities team is sprinting towards a roughly $100,000 short-term fix for dozens of moisture bubbles and tears in the Floyd Little Athletic Center track surface — in the runup to a longer-term $1.3 million needed overhaul.
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Oct 4, 2023 11:47 am
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Principal Mia Edmonds-Duff, with her NHPS longevity award.
It wasn’t until Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy Principal Mia Edmonds-Duff looked over at a “longevity plaque” on her office desk thanking her for three decades of work in NHPS that she thought to herself: “I was having so much fun I didn’t realize how far along I was.”
With that revelation, Edmonds-Duff has decided that, after 38 years working for the city’s public school district, it’s now time to retire.
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Oct 3, 2023 10:15 am
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Supervisor of Elementary Reading and Language Arts Jennifer Tousignant.
In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through third-grade educators — all based off of the district’s recently adopted core literacy program.
That block includes 30 minutes of phonics instruction, 20 minutes of whole group structured literacy learning, and 40 minutes of small group instruction.
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Oct 2, 2023 8:35 am
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Best friends Monserrat Martinez and Dazani Hough: Ready for gym class.
As a white ball bounced towards Monserrat Martinez, the Roberto Clemente school sixth grader locked eyes with it — and then kicked it with all her might, sending it across the gymnasium and giving her the chance to sprint towards the safety of first base.
An overview of how the latest round of ESSER funds has been budgeted.
New Haven’s school system has spent over $37 million of the last batch of federal ESSER pandemic-relief funds — on everything from salaries to school supplies to HVAC upgrades — leaving $42.9 million still to spend by October of next year.
Daily attendance rates for the first 15 days of school.
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Office of Youth, Family & Community Chief Gemma Joseph Lumpkin, at Tuesday's meeting.
Hopes are high among chronic absenteeism-combatting public school district leaders, as average daily attendance rates show that 85 to 90 percent of students showed up during the first two weeks of the school year.
Randi Weingarten (right) helps a student laminate and cut a school sign in the Wilbur Cross print shop.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten returned to New Haven — a decade after helping turn the city into a national model for school reform — and lauded Wilbur Cross High School as a potential leader in hands-on schooling amid a new era of learning loss.
Sophia Quinones, A’mya Foust, and Malaysia Bowden, coloring a “Conte Pride" poster.
At the Conte West back-to-school bash.
Seventh graders Malaysia Bowden, A’mya Foust, and Sophia Quinones were quick to agree that science was their favorite subject. Thanks to their teacher Mr. E, also known as Cecil Royal Estes III, they weren’t just learning about electrons at Conte West — but also about emotional regulation skills with his lessons, “Mindfulness with Mr. E.”
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Sep 22, 2023 8:35 am
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Alex Morquecho, Aaron Goode and Jacob Smith with Sound School's newly planted peace tree.
Alex Morquecho and Jacob Smith crouched atop a raised bed of waterfront soil to uncover the city’s latest tribute to a hoped-for world without violence, alongside a newly planted “peace tree.”
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Sep 18, 2023 11:27 am
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Davis seventh-grader Dulce creates a 3D guitar figure last spring.
Davis Academy for Arts & Design Innovation has put a pause on its before- and after-school programming — leading two parents to take to the Board of Education to plead for some way to bring back initiatives that helped their students with reading, socialization, and building connections with school staff and fellow classmates.
Co-Op students Shay, 14, and Shianna, 13, on their way back home to Fair Haven after Sep. 6's early dismissal.
After high heat and broken air conditioning systems sent students home early two days in a row last week, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Superintendent Madeline Negrón has established an “extreme temperature protocol” that considers closing school buildings if classrooms get above 80 degrees.
Next up, she plans to put together a long-awaited district preventative maintenance program.
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Sep 14, 2023 9:17 am
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Chanel Rice.
After spending the last five years serving at Hillhouse High School as a guidance counselor, Chanel Rice will be moving up into the role of assistant principal of Edgewood Magnet School, thanks to the latest round of Board of Education-OK’d promotions.
