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Metropolitan Business Academy social studies teacher Julia Miller, who is going on 18 years of teaching, has been named the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) teacher of the year.
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by | Sep 6, 2024 11:53 am | Comments (8)
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NHPS sixth graders at work, building a robot at Floyd Little Athletic Center. This work won't be done at Wilbur Cross.
The city’s public school district has scrapped plans to build a new manufacturing pathway lab at Wilbur Cross High School over concerns around contractor timeline and building space, and will be partnering instead with a Fair Haven manufacturing training nonprofit.
by | Sep 5, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (14)
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Sarah Diggs: Heading from NHPS to TFA.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has yet another vacancy to fill: The administrator in charge of filling vacancies.
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by | Sep 5, 2024 9:19 am | Comments (0)
Fifteen alumni — including athletes, educators, and even a Pulitzer Prize-winner — are set to be inducted into the Lee-Career Hall of Fame later this month, after hundreds of community members cast their votes for the most accomplished alums of the former and current Hill public high schools.
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by | Sep 4, 2024 5:33 pm | Comments (29)
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Vent trouble at Cross, the day before the start of school.
Wilbur Cross’s library will be closed for at least a week as the city’s public school district gets rid of air-borne mold spores — as part of its response to unkempt building conditions at the city’s largest high school at the start of the school year.
by | Sep 4, 2024 9:38 am | Comments (10)
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Catching the bus on the Green.
That state has awarded New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) $175,000 to continue providing its high school students with public bus passes not just to get to school and extracurriculars but now also to jobs, internships, and college courses, and then back home.
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by and | Sep 3, 2024 5:18 pm | Comments (23)
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Gildemar Herrera: I was "wrongfully dismissed."
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has fired Local 3144 President Gildemar Herrera after a months-long investigation into a $6 million cybersecurity theft concluded that she “failed in the performance of her duties” as the city school district’s information technology director.
by | Aug 30, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (24)
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Pads on display at a Dwight period product giveaway.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) intends to comply with a new state law that requires public school districts to provide students with free menstrual products in bathrooms — and is still looking to secure funding to make that mandate a long-term reality.
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by | Aug 29, 2024 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Eighth grader Yabsira, third grader Amanbuen, and dad Yemiamrew Teferi, on the first day of school.
Yemiamrew Teferi and his two sons Yabsira and Amanbuen showed up to Augusta Lewis Troup School on Thursday for their first first day of classes with New Haven Public Schools (NHPS), after moving from Ethiopia to the Elm City two months ago.
by | Aug 29, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Knox and Kenzl Ellis: Used to uniforms in New York preschool, ready for uniforms in New Haven kindergarten.
Eighth graders Nike, Kaylee, and Aaliyah with Principal Eugene Foreman (back right) and Troup Culture and Climate Specialist Da'Jhon Jett. As Kaylee said, "Nobody is going to want to be disrespectful with Mr. Jett. He's everyone's fave."
Troup kindergarteners Knox and Kenzl Ellis showed up to the first day of classes Thursday wearing matching green polo shirts and khaki pants — in line with the return of uniforms to the Edgewood Avenue public school.
After a pandemic hiatus, Troup’s administration has brought back its uniform requirement with the goal of encouraging higher levels of attendance by reducing the number of clothing decisions, and purchases, students and their families have to make.
by | Aug 29, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (38)
Water-damaged tiles in Kim Anderson's English classroom.
Special education staffers Melissa Pellino and Lauren Pollio: "This is what we do for the kids."
Wilbur Cross teachers rushed to prepare their classrooms for Thursday’s first day of school by hanging up posters of Angela Davis, signs reading “be brave,” and world maps — and by cleaning mold from walls, covering broken floor tiles with rugs, and mopping the floors of classrooms and bathrooms alike.
by | Aug 28, 2024 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Evelyn Robles-Rivas: "ESL services are a tier 1 support."
Don’t underestimate your students — especially those who are working to learn English as a second or third language while also trying to keep up in the classroom.
The district’s new director of multilingual learner programs, Evelyn Robles-Rivas, shared that message to new teachers in the runup to the first day of classes.
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by | Aug 27, 2024 4:16 pm | Comments (15)
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NHPS Supt. Negrón: Focus is on filling math, science, special ed vacancies.
Good news: New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has 22 fewer vacancies than it did this time last year.
Not so good news: The public school district still has nearly 200 staff positions left to fill, with the start of classes just around the corner.
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by | Aug 27, 2024 3:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School dancers.
This Citizen Contribution was submitted by New Haven Public Schools Director of Communications and Marketing Justin Harmon.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Mayor Justin Elicker joined Supt. Dr. Madeline Negrón in a convocation celebrating the contributions New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) staff will make in the coming school year. The event was held Tuesday, Aug. 27 at the Lyman Center, Southern Connecticut State University.
by | Aug 26, 2024 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
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New educators learn about Newhallville's learning corridor from Doreen Abubakar and Kim Harris.
While bussing around Newhallville, newly-hired Hillhouse, Nathan Hale, and Riverside psychologist Debbie Hull took note of hair braiding shops, faith centers, delis, green spaces, and transitional housing resources to share with her students this coming school year.
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by | Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (6)
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
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by | Aug 23, 2024 3:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Shaylah McQueen-Lee: "Never give up on kids."
Step by step on Grand Avenue Friday morning, Shaylah McQueen-Lee walked towards her near future as a K‑2 teacher at Benjamin Jepson School — marking her return to the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district after graduating from Hillhouse more than a decade ago as both valedictorian and a teen mom.
by | Aug 23, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (5)
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NHPS Supervisor of Foreign Languages Jessica Haxhi with teacher handbook she created for last school year.
New Haven’s two comprehensive high schools will introduce a “Pashto Native Heritage Speaker” course this school year for its increasing population of students who need to improve their writing and reading skills in a language native to Afghanistan and Pakistan before they move on to learning English.
by | Aug 22, 2024 2:59 pm | Comments (6)
As New Haven Public School (NHPS) students get ready to return to the classroom next week, the district is working to remediate “surface mold” from its buildings. Again.
by | Aug 22, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (4)
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345 Norton St.: One of 3 homes newly eyed for daycare.
New Haven’s daycare “desert” is about to grow a bit more green, in the form of three new or expanded group child care centers in Fair Haven and Edgewood.
by | Aug 21, 2024 2:44 pm | Comments (11)
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State ed commissioner Russell-Tucker: Fewer phone distractions, better student mental health.
Cellphones should be kept out of the hands of elementary and middle school students, and their use should be restricted — but not outright banned — for high schoolers.
The state Board of Education handed down those recommendations Wednesday as they voted to encourage, but not require, public schools across Connecticut to limit students’ use of “personal technology” during the school day in a bid to cut down on distractions in the classroom.
by | Aug 16, 2024 1:13 pm | Comments (13)
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Bayan Albakkour: A phone-free example for her siblings.
Adona Blair with her cousin and younger sister: Locking away phones tells students you don't believe in them.
Metropolitan Business Academy rising junior Bayan Albakkour thinks that Yondr cellphone pouches — a method for creating phone-free spaces that some New Haven schools are adopting — are a good idea to help students focus on class by hiding a key source of distraction.
Her best friend, meanwhile, remains unconvinced — and thinks these cases that lock away students’ phones for the day will only encourage students to rebel more.
That debate will play out this fall as three New Haven public schools experiment with stowing away phones after a pilot year at Barnard.
by | Aug 16, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (2)
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Hillhouse graduate Issac Perry scores $4,500 scholarship ...
... at Thursday's back-to-school rally at Bowen Field.
Backpacks, popsicles, children’s books, and a $4,500 college scholarship were all on hand at Bowen Field as New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) prepared families for the first day of classes in less than two weeks.
by | Aug 16, 2024 10:05 am | Comments (1)
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Semira Estep carries the one to calculate her birth year, at back-to-school rally.
Despite Thursday’s high-90 degree temperatures, Felicia Scott and her daughter’s goddaughter Semira Estep waded through the crowd at Bowen Field as they exchanged memories and educational wisdom in preparation for New Haven Public Schools’ first day back.
by | Aug 15, 2024 10:11 am | Comments (30)
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Suspensions: Generally down from 2022, still up from 2021.
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Troup Principal Foreman: "Each day I go to work with a plan of what I'd like to get done, but by around 9:30, 10 a.m., the plan is derailed by issues with students' behaviors."
Troup Principal Eugene Foreman finds that his daily responsibilities of being an instructional leader who makes visits to his K‑8 school’s classrooms are all too often derailed by the frequent acting out of a few students.
He’s hoping the introduction this coming school year of phone pouches that securely lock away fifth through eighth graders’ distracting electronic devices might help.
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