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Regional Parent Meeting with Assistant Superintendent Logan
Below is the schedule for the monthly parent meetings with our Assistant Superintendent, Cheryl Logan.
Boys' Soccer Team Goes 2-0
SLA Boys' Soccer Team put in an impressive performance this afternoon defeating KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy 12-0 on our home field. Congratulations to the team and have a great weekend!
Boys' Soccer Win over Penn Treaty!
SLA Boys' soccer team won its first game of the season defeating Penn Treaty High School 3-0. William Figeiredo, Malachai Johnson, and Jordon Gilles scored goals in the game and William Derry recorded his first shut out. Our next game is this Friday, September 12th at 44th and Haverford at 3:30pm. Come out and support!
Great opportunity!! Youth Council at PAFA Applications Available
Greetings! All,
There is a great opportunity to join the new Youth Council at PAFA. The Youth Council will be comprised of a small group of high school students who meet at PAFA weekly throughout the school year to get to know the museum, host events geared towards teens and participate in a range of art related events like studio visits.
I've attached the link on the website to the application. It's due by Friday Sept 12th, if you're interested please apply and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any additional questions!
Seeing Ourselves/Seeing the City: An Expedition into 9th Grade
August 28th – August 30th 9:00 am – 12:00 noon - bring a lunch
At the Science Leadership Academy, we understand that the transition into High School can be a difficult one. We are pleased to offer a one-week Summer Institute this August, to ease that transition and allow our students and faculty to begin forging bonds together as a learning community – before the “hard work” of the classroom begins.
Led by faculty and upper-class students, this one-week orientation will have two goals, the first is to begin the process of bringing them into the unique, diverse SLA community. To that end, students will spend part of the time in their Advisory Groups, getting to know the students and teachers that will be a part of their community from their first day at SLA through graduation and beyond.
Second, the week will be built around our philosophy of student-driven, hands-on, project-based learning. We want to introduce our students to SLA’s core values of Inquiry, Research, Collaboration,Presentation, and Reflection from the start, and get them acclimated to the high expectations we have for their high school careers. Using The Franklin Institute and other Philadelphia sites as their “classroom,” students will begin working to explore a variety of questions and problems relating to their surroundings and their place within it. Our students will practice the art of “seeing in new ways” as it relates to the process of observation, analysis, and interpretation.
During Summer Institute, students will work to ultimately create a collaborative project to present to their classmates, while, at the same time, establishing positive relationships and a sense of themselves as first-year SLA students. It will be an exciting, enriching, and energizing way to gear up for the year.
See you in August!
P.S. If you have any general questions about the school year, please refer to our Family Night Packet.
Check out the New Exhibits at the Franklin Institute!
Just a reminder that you can use your TFI membership all summer to get you, 2 adults, 3 children, and 2 guests into TFI for FREE and to get discounts on food. If you brought 7 people with you and got food, it would normally cost over $200.
ALSO there are four new exhibits: “Your Brain,” “Circus,” “101 Inventions,” and “Ocean Soul.” Visit the TFI website for more info.Thanks and have a great summer! Hope to see you around the Museum!
Congratulations, Mr. Gray!
Congratulations to Mr. Gray for being awarded a five-year Teaching Fellowship from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF). Gray is one of 32 early-career science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) teachers to receive this national honor.
SLA@Beeber Student Entrepreneurs Win $500 to Pursue Their Business Idea
On Friday, June 13th, Küdzoo, a mobile app that rewards students for their academic achievements, teamed up with SLA Beeber to sponsor a pitch competition! The winner received $500 to kickstart their business.
A big congrats to Zoie Jones and Kevin Williams' business, Safe Haven, for winning the Küdzoo pitch contest! All participants did an incredible job & we can't wait to see where these young entrepreneurs take their ventures! Companies ranged from a nonprofit that has a solution for two problems: converting abandoned buildings into "safe havens" for the homeless. Another company looked to connect users who cannot communicate conventionally (service men and women with their families) by personalizing messages and pictures in a new and innovative way. While unorthodox skateboard company will bring affordable skateboards to market allowing anyone with the passion to enjoy the ride. Congrats students!
Summer Opportunities for Students
Below is a document containing information about summer opportunities for students. If you hear of an awesome summer camp or program, let Ms Koplitz know (ckoplitz@scienceleadership.org) and she will put it on the list! Check the bottom of the list for information on working papers and employment and internship opportunities.
10th Grade Summer Reading
Benchmark
Abstract
My grandmother Cynthia Washington reflects on how it was to be African American during the Civil Rights Movement time period. She shared her knowledge and outlooks on topics pertaining to discrimination against blacks and her outlook on race and how it ties into society. She begins the conversation talking about how she attended a segregated school and then later moves into her perception of race and events/ things that were occurring when the Civil Rights movement took place. She wraps up the interview with her thoughts on what was going on in the schools at the time and how whites were offered a much better education than blacks were.
Research
Topic: How was the education offered to blacks during the Civil Rights Movement different than the education that was offered to the whites?
In most places the blacks lived in some of the poorest places and neighborhoods with some of the worst schools/ facilities. The teachers had the worst paid jobs so therefore they couldn’t afford some of the common schools/ facilities.
That they did was symbolic that they had the worst paid jobs that could only afford the most basic of facilities. The worst financed schools were most of the ones that were separated. Meaning they were segregated. This information can tie into what my grandmother told me in the interview because she said the schools didn’t have a lot of money and most times they didn’t have enough supplies to educate the students at all times.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/civil_rights_education.htm
I didn't get to have a face to face conversation with my interviewee so I don't have an audio file. I did however have a phone interview with my person and wrote down their answers to my questions.
Conversation
ME- Hi grandma, how are you doing today?
GRANDMA- I'm doing good Imani, how about you?
ME- I'm fine, I called to see if you could answer some questions about life during the Civil rights Movement time.
GRANDMA- Sure, I'll answer some questions.
ME- Ok I have 10 questions for you
GRANDMA- Ok
ME- Did you attend a segregated school?
GRANDMA- Yes
ME- Did you ever get attacked by a group of white people? Either by their words or violent actions?
GRANDMA- I had never gotten physically attacked by any whites but every now and then there would be whites that would say rude racial slurs and remarks to me
ME- How has your perception of race changed from then and now?
GRANDMA- I see race in a way different limelight then I did back then. Back then I didn't feel that race was a good things. Simply because of the fact that me and my people were getting discriminated against. I didn't feel like whites and blacks were equal in anyway. A lot of things were unfair to me. A lot of things also didn't sit right with me. Now we're in a whole nother day in age where these aren't the circumstances anymore. I feel the exact opposite on how I felt before.
ME- What specific things do you remember from when the Civil Rights Movement took place?
GRANDMA- There was a lot of protesting going on and a lot of violent outbreaks.
ME- How do you see the role of race in society?
GRANDMA- I feel and think that race plays a huge role in society. For example believe it or not sometimes race can play into what kind of a job you can get how much money people decide you earn etc.
ME- Did you feel like a minority during these times?
GRANDMA- Yes i did, like I stated before I just felt like a lot of things were unfair.
ME- Did you ever feel like you weren't safe since whites were so prejudice against blacks?
GRANDMA- At times I would feel unsafe especially because of the things you would see on tv and in the newspapers about violence going on in other places.
ME- What were some things you observed pertaining to discrimination?
GRANDMA- I would see and hear whites making racial comments and other offensive things to blacks.
ME- What took place/ what was going on in schools during these times?
GRANDMA- In the black schools a lot of changes were taking place. We didn't have everything that we needed at all times to be educated properly. Such as the school not having enough supplies and books for kids... etc
ME- Did you feel like you got the same education that whites had/ were offered. Why or why not?
GRANDMA- No because we didn't have as good of a quality education that they were offered. Like I said before sometimes we didn't even have enough materials for everybody to learn.