by | May 17, 2023 5:35 pm | Comments (7)
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Andrea Downer files campaign registration papers Wednesday with City Clerk Michael Smart.
This year’s Board of Education campaign officially began Wednesday afternoon, as Andrea Downer filed papers to seek the District 2 seat as a Democrat.
by | May 17, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (2)
School board student rep candidates Laila Kelly Walker, John Carlos Serana Musser, and Hsiu-Mei Chow-Yen, with current board member Dave Cruz-Bustamante.
Making classroom lessons more relevant and engaging, increasing student pride in school facilities’ good repair, and boosting mentorship programs for K‑12 students across the district.
Those top the list of priorities of the three New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students who are now running in an election for a soon-to-open student rep seat on the Board of Education.
by | May 16, 2023 12:15 pm | Comments (2)
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King-Robinson STEM teacher Jonathan Hill, with seventh grader Thomas: "They solve their own problems in here."
Eighth grader -- and budding engineer -- Nevaeh James building her hydraulic system.
As her hands worked deftly on a new in-classroom engineering project, King-Robinson eighth grader Nevaeh James glanced back and forth between a basic model of a hydraulic system and her own build — which she had designed to be bigger and with an additional moving claw.
Continue reading ‘Student Engineers Put Pressure To Practice’
by | May 15, 2023 6:20 pm | Comments (10)
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Shelley Smith and 2nd-grader Maite at Bishop Woods New Haven Reads site.
Summer camps this year will double as literacy and math training grounds powered by volunteers, marking the first wave of a $3 million pandemic relief-funded citywide tutoring effort.
by | May 12, 2023 4:59 pm | Comments (8)
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Cross chefs-in-training show off their culinary chops at Friday's presser.
Punchy restaurant pitches and smoke from searing scallops filled Wilbur Cross Friday morning as students showed off lessons learned from participating in a nationwide youth culinary competition — and from living in a small city as culturally rich as the meals served up by the school’s award-winning cooking crew.
Continue reading ‘Cross Culinary Champs Bring Home The Gold’
by | May 12, 2023 4:44 pm | Comments (7)
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Newly tapped Co-Op Principal Paul Camarco at Monday's ed board meeting.
Hillhouse Assistant Principal Paul Camarco rose the ranks to become the next principal of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, in one of a handful of new school board-approved promotions.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse AP Promoted To New Co-Op Principal’
by | May 11, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (2)
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Sixth graders Tiranke Keita, Grace Sherman, and Issac Oliver in Barnard's garden bed.
Barnard sixth grader Tiranke Keita dug a hole in the bed of her school’s garden, Grace Sherman filled it in with a handful of rich compost, and Issac Oliver nestled in a starter plant of lettuce — kicking off the Derby Avenue PreK‑8 school’s latest effort in hands-on, hands-in-the-dirt learning.
Continue reading ‘Barnard's Classroom Garden Springs to Life’
by | May 11, 2023 9:08 am | Comments (13)
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Will NHPS pick up or drop off new First Student bus contract?
New NHPS Director of Transportation LaShell Rountree.
The city’s school district has a new transportation director — but may soon be without a school bus provider, as the Board of Education failed to agree on what should happen next after First Student’s current contract ends on June 30.
by | May 10, 2023 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
Police detained a Hillhouse High student who allegedly posted a threat to shoot up the school.
An estimated 150 Hillhouse students stayed home Wednesday after the threat circulated Tuesday on Instagram.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Mass Shooting "Joke" Leads To Hospital Evaluation, Student Absences’
by | May 9, 2023 3:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Digging up "worms" at Reggie Mayo school's new garden.
The romaine, zucchini, and radishes were going in, along with bright orange marigolds.
So were plastic “squooshies” of worms, lime-green butterflies, black-dotted ladybugs, and other creatures that pre-schoolers can now bury in the dirt and then dig up, not months hence at harvest time, but within seconds, and then call out a loud “surprise” at the remarkable re-finding of the object.
Continue reading ‘Look What's Growing In A Classroom On Goffe’
by | May 5, 2023 6:53 pm | Comments (31)
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Smith signs up with City Clerk staffer Michelle Lee Rodriguez.
As East Rocker Caroline Tanbee Smith filed papers to make official her first aldermanic run, Fair Havener Claudia Hererra readied to hand over the local legislative baton — to a candidate she says will build bridges between those neighborhoods and across the broader city if she’s elected to be Ward 9’s next representative.
by | May 5, 2023 4:07 pm | Comments (7)
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Hillhouse senior and aspiring future congresswoman Ma'Shai Roman.
School board student representative Ma’Shai Roman is on track to graduate from Hillhouse High School in less than two months to pursue a college degree in political science with the goal of one day becoming a U.S. congresswoman.
If you had read her that sentence two years ago, Roman likely wouldn’t have believed it — as she was in the midst of transferring to her third high school while struggling with her mental health, all against the backdrop of the isolating and education-disrupting effects of a global pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Ready For College, Hillhouse Senior Persevered’
by | May 5, 2023 2:05 pm | Comments (25)
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Elm City Montessori students lead a tour of Elm City Montessori's newest murals.
James Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera, and Harvey Milk are now watching over the halls of Elm City Montessori School — in newly unveiled mural portraits that fit in well with the Blake Street charter school’s anti-bias and anti-racist values.
by | May 4, 2023 8:49 am | Comments (0)
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The official ribbon cutting commences.
Neighborhood Music School launched a new recording studio and debuted its own record label, Equitone Records, with a press conference, ribbon cutting, and, of course, live music.
Continue reading ‘Ribbon Cut On Neighborhood Music School's New Recording Studio, Record Label’
by | May 2, 2023 2:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Imagining the Hiptec Suit Version 1
Behold the Hiptec Suit Version 1, a VR full suit created by a group of 10 eighth graders from Truman School on a field trip to DAE, formerly known as the afterschool program District Arts + Education.
Portable, adjustable, and a lightweight microfiber nylon, it features a body tracking belt that regulates the user’s temperature, a sensor that recognizes anxiety and tells you to breathe, and the option for virtual reality therapy sessions.
There’s just one caveat. Hiptec Suit Version 1 exists only on a whiteboard.
by | May 2, 2023 8:54 am | Comments (4)
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The "ladies in pink and green" kick off Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter at Saturday's kick off.
A local chapter of a historic Black sorority has teamed up with the city’s public school district to make sure kids who come to class on Saturdays don’t go home hungry.
Continue reading ‘Sorority Steps Up With Saturday School Meals’
by | May 1, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (7)
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Inaugural HBCU-bound Pennington Scholarship recipients, from left, Anaya Moore, Skye Williams, Tiara Walters, Laniyah McNeil, Antoine Pittman, Trinity Ford, Brianna Lane, and Migdalia Marquez at Monday's event with Promise President Patricia Melton.
Eight high schoolers made hopeful history Monday — and in the process helped New Haven confront historical wrongs.
by | May 1, 2023 11:04 am | Comments (5)
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Nakeshia Alford & her kids at teachers union-hosted education justice town hall.
Higher quality school lunches. More reliable school bus transportation. Enough hand soap and paper towels in all school bathrooms. And better work opportunities for public-school students under the age of 16.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students put forward those goals among many others as they joined parents, teachers, and education allies in defining what a fully funded city school district could look like.
by | May 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (1)
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Bill O'Brien, Sister Cathy Phillips, Monsignor Gerard Schmitz at WNHH FM.
An immigration story is coming full circle in New Haven’s Catholic elementary school classrooms.
Continue reading ‘K-8 Catholic Education Evolves With Changing Times’
by | Apr 28, 2023 5:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Jemar, Jessica Marie, and Jebrell, the children of late teacher Marites Siervo, water a tree planted in their mom's memory.
Riverside Academy senior Davon Hardgrove shoveled dirt over the roots of a Zelkova tree planted in memory of a late principal who led his school through tough times — and pledged to continue her legacy of community service throughout his own life.
by | Apr 27, 2023 4:37 pm | Comments (11)
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Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom takes home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize.
How does an elementary school more than halve its chronic absenteeism rate, down to 25 percent, in a year?
John C. Daniels School leaders had one answer for City Hall public-education watchdogs: supplement district-wide support services with a series of homeroom attendance contests that get kids to cheer on one another for showing up to class.
Continue reading ‘Attendance Update: More Students Showing Up’
by | Apr 27, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (29)
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NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey at school board meeting: "Now they're saying, 'If you can fight back, fight back.'"
(Updated) School staff are no longer advised to just hide during active shooter situations, but instead to fight back.
Continue reading ‘School Shooter Response Rec: "Fight Back"’
by | Apr 26, 2023 8:56 am | Comments (9)
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Ta’LannaMonique Lawson-Dickerson with NHPS students Chyna Lopes, Naylanee Alejandro, and Kate Kim at April monthly Citywide Student Council meetup.
Roughly 40 high-schoolers from across New Haven gathered on Sherman Parkway to cast their votes in support of having a greater say in school district decision making, higher-quality facilities, a more socially relevant curriculum, and increased investment in student well-being and restorative justice.
Continue reading ‘Student Voices Heard In Citywide Council Vote’
by | Apr 25, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (4)
Tiger Squad News crew Alae Aboutalib, Shayla Black, and Nima Safdari, with the first issue of their school's reborn newsletter (below).
The ink is dry on the first issue of the recently revived Tiger Squad News — as Celentano School reporters-in-training Nima Safdari, Alae Aboutalib, and Shayla Black return to the beat for a second newsletter that they hope will inform their classmates about just how much work goes into being a student reporter.
by | Apr 24, 2023 7:10 pm | Comments (15)
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ECA students gathered on Audubon Street Monday.
Roughly 100 students at an Audubon Street arts magnet school walked out of their classes and into the city’s public arts district to protest staffing cutbacks and to stand in solidarity with affected teachers.