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A model for success
The story of how Long Island City HS turned around bodes well for the Bronx Collaborative Schools Plan, a new program to support schools facing the greatest challenges.
Community celebrates school-based health and vision center in the Bronx
Parents, students, teachers and local office-holders and community members came together to celebrate the official opening of a school-based health and vision center at PS 18 in the South Bronx.
Kudos to Yvonne Reasen, Engineering and Technical Academy, Bronx
Bronx Engineering and Technical Academy Chapter Leader Yvonne Reasen used the new expedited resolution process for operational issues, negotiated as part of the 2018 DOE-UFT contract, to get the basic instructional supplies desperately needed by...
What I do: Christina Gavin, school librarian
Christina Gavin is the librarian at the Herbert H. Lehman HS Campus in the Bronx, where she serves 3,200 students and more than 300 staff members in the seven schools that share the building.
Tech4All information session and job fair
Tech4All, an all-day information session and technology job fair, drew 500 participants and 25 employers to the UFT's Bronx borough office on April 3.
District 12 Scholarship Committee breakfast
The turnout “exploded” — reaching 330 — at District 12’s April 13 Scholarship Committee breakfast at which 24 students were awarded new laptops.
Zully Brons-Bailey, school nurse
For nearly two decades, Zully Brons-Bailey worked simultaneously as a school nurse and a hospital nurse in the Bronx. Now serving 640 students in grades pre-K through 8 at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, she tackles everything...
Bronx Parent Newsletter - December 2019
This is the Dec. 5 issue of the Bronx parent newsletter.
Avoiding flying dictionaries
For students struggling with literacy in their home language, an English dictionary is more of an obstacle than an aid.
A real-life composition notebook classroom
As a literacy teacher to 5th-graders, it is always my mission to develop engaging ways to influence my students to love reading and writing.