Important pages:
About SLA
The Science Leadership Academy at Beeber is a second campus of The Science Leadership Academy, an inquiry-driven, project-based public school focused on 21st century learning. The Science Leadership Academy at Beeber opened its doors on September 9, 2013 as a high school and will welcome the first class of 5th graders in September 2018.
SLA provides a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes.
SLA Beeber in Ghana!
Our students, with teacher Bonnee Bentum are exploring Ghana. They are the first Philadelphia public school students to visit Ghana as part of a school-sponsored trip!
Click through the photos below to see their adventures.
Summer Reading for 9th, 10th, & 11th Graders
Students and Families,
Click on the links below to view the 2018 summer reading directions for your grade level.
Happy Reading!
The Power Of Poetry By Salina Beattie
For my capstone, I wanted it to be about something that I am passionate about! Or else, I know I wouldn't be able to put my all into it. Since 6th grade, I had a love for poetry. As I got into high school, my love for poetry grew like a wildfire. While working with the Philadelphia Poetry Youth movement, they inspired me to want to widen my audience of listeners. So I came up with the idea of teaching kids (middle school) and teenagers (high school) about "The Power Poetry" and what it can be used for! Throughout my slides, you will see both of the breakdowns for high school and middle school. I got an extraordinary chance to be able to work with kids from SLA middle school with the supervision of their teacher, Ms.Hamilton who welcomed me like I was her own. Then I taught two tenth grade classes in my school.
My capstone mentor challenged me to cater to both audiences without losing the "it factor" of using poetry to make a difference. So that's what I did! I wasn't able to put the recordings of each grades performances in but I do have them and they performed amazingly! I have to be honest, I was scared that the kids wouldn’t want to participate in the open mic at the end. But overall most people did because they were intrigued by the prompts that I gave. I made sure that we made the room a safe space before sharing. So everyone had a understanding that nobody including the teacher and myself wouldn’t judge the student about what they wrote. After all I was always taught that writing has a mind of its own and will take its course no matter who’s listening. Thank you for viewing my Capstone. Hopefully, you can find a love for poetry and use it to tap into your creative side and be a voice for the voiceless. Maya Angelou once said, “ I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Capstone Nursing One On One by Ashley and Jorge.
For my capstone, I wanted to create something that everyone will be able to benefit from as well as myself as this is my last year at Science Leadership Academy at Beeber. I wanted to make my mark on the school that's where my partner and I had come up the idea of creating a small workshop, during lunch that will involve STD and HIV. We also we are going to put our interview that we took at the clinic center so we are able to show students a good a real-life example of this disease and how important public health we are also creating a website we will also present the presentation and the website to the school so we hope this answer all the questions you may have about this type of diseases. The reason for us to create a website was that we strongly felt as if nobody in this generations likes to read books anymore so we made it easier since the internet is very useful when getting information across the world. I feel as if I was able to grow as a student when creating this project this capstone as made me learn not only more about myself health but the public health as well. In fact, public health is extremely important not only does it affect our absorbent it affects our bodies as well. In this capstone, Jorge and I had come up the idea to interview a person who deals with HIV/ Aids computers on the ruler. As we asked the questions I felt as if I was able to get a better understanding of how HIV relates to public health. Also, one thing many people may not know about HIV is if a woman had sexual intercourse with a person who has HIV and she gets pregnant that baby will be born with HIV. One important questions I felt like me and my parents kept getting asked was can it be transmitted by kissing, touching, drinking off of that person to sum everything up the answer is no HIV can only be transmitted to a person by sexual intercourse. Overall this project had given me a different viewpoint.
link Jorge and I website: https://aarmstrong18.wixsite.com/websitecapstone
