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Stephanie Tubbs Jones School opens Verizon Lab (Video)
11/29/22 - Stephanie Tubbs Jones is among the 10 CMSD schools that now have a Verizon Innovative Learning Lab. District schools that already have labs include Almira, Wade Park, and Miles Park. A lab at Whitney M. Young is scheduled to open in early 2023 with more labs to open later in the school year.
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Board picks firm for CEO search
11/23/2022 -- The Cleveland Board of Education has selected the Alma Advisory Group to assist in the search for CMSD’s next CEO. The Chicago-based firm’s resume includes searches for superintendents in Cincinnati and Denver and executive positions in the Chicago schools.
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Cavs' Jarrett Allen turns students' shopping trip into a math lesson (Photo gallery)
11/22/2022 -- Each of the Orchard STEM students received a $100 gift card to buy groceries for their families at Giant Eagle, along with a calculator so they could add up prices and try to stay within their budgets.
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Street named in honor of beloved Glenville principal (Video)
11/17/2022 -- Jacqueline "Jackie" Bell retired this year after more than 20 years as principal at Glenville High School.
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Celebration honors teaching award winners (Video, photo gallery)
11/11/2022 -- The Excellence in Teaching awards program promotes best practices by highlighting teachers whose techniques can serve as a model for colleagues. The awards resumed this year after a two-year break prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Students working with mayor on violence prevention (Video)
11/9/2022 -- For a decade, CEO Eric Gordon has turned to his Student Advisory Committee for input on major concerns. Now these trusted advisors are working with Mayor Justin Bibb and the city on violence prevention, a communitywide issue.
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CMSD students are getting involved in the election process
11/5/22 -- Students involved in both the Junior Civics 2.0 and Civics 2.0 programs are calling Cleveland residents to encourage them to cast their ballots.
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Students run show in demonstrations of learning
11/4/2022 -- The demonstrations are part of CMSD’s new Vision for Learning, an approach designed to engage students more deeply and give them more voice in their studies.
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‘Adults Have Power. Students Don’t’: Cleveland Schools Aim Bias Lessons at Staff
May 15, 2022 - The 74million.org - The massive Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 drew calls for revamping what students are taught about racism, with demands for more Black history classes and for schools to ditch textbooks that gloss over uncomfortable historical events.
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NEW CAMPAIGN IS ENCOURAGING BLACK MEN TO BECOME EDUCATORS IN CLEVELAND
Feb. 14, 2022 BOTWC Staff - A new campaign is encouraging Black men to become educators in Cleveland, News 5 Cleveland reports.
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Cleveland's Promise
Cleveland.com is embedding two reporters with unprecedented access to a classroom at Almira Elementary School to show readers the enormous challenges of educating children in poverty and what the school district is doing to overcome them.
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A conversation with Eric Gordon on dispelling the myths about teaching in urban environments: Cleveland’s Promise
Oct. 03, 2022 - By Cameron Fields and Hannah Drown, cleveland.com – At the height of the pandemic, while students everywhere grappled with remote learning, Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon noted that well-meaning outsiders were recognizing, for the first time, the deep inequities and barriers to education that a childhood in poverty imposes.
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Local groups unite amid rising youth violence with 'Stop the Violence' rally
Sept. 30, 2022 Taneisha Cordell, Channel 5 — Youth violence is on the rise throughout Northeast Ohio and the country including physical fights, threats of violence at school, and guns. Earlier this month, six students were arrested and four loaded handguns were recovered after a large fight outside of Euclid High School.
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Renaming Cleveland schools to excise names of those complicit in slavery and oppression
July 9, 2022 Cleveland.com - As part of a yearlong effort to purge the Cleveland public school system of names associated with oppressors, racists and slaveowners, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) board last week unanimously voted to change the names of three elementary schools next school year.
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Cavs and Goodyear Unveil Renovated Innovation Lab at Orchard STEM School
May 12, 2022 nba.com - Students at Orchard STEM School have a new Innovation Lab to learn and work in, thanks to the continued partnership between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
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New learning lab puts CMSD students on a 'level-playing field' with students from the 'burbs
May 11, 2022 News5Cleveland.com - Computers and equipment you'd once only find at high-tech companies are now landing in the hands of students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. On Wednesday, the Almira K-8 School on the city's west side officially dedicated its new 5G learning lab.
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Jesse Owens uniforms unveiled for East Tech and Rhodes in time for Tuesday’s city track championships
May 11, 2022 Cleveland.com - The Rhodes and East Tech track and field teams got some new gear just in time for Tuesday’s city track championships.
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Inspirational teen surprised with internship at Cleveland Clinic's IBM Discovery Accelerator
May 4, 2022 News5Cleveland.com - We love it when good things happen to good people. Especially, when it’s the result of hard work. The Cleveland Clinic and IBM just surprised Cleveland high school student, Mussa Wisoba, 17, with an opportunity that'll help shape a future he's been working hard to create.
