August 2018
Year to bring new learning models, buildings
CMSD has started another school year, a year that will bring the opening of seven new buildings and the rollout of new teaching and learning strategies at 13 schools.
The majority of students returned from summer break on Monday, Aug. 13. A select group of high schools that follow year-round or extended calendars were already in session.
The seven new PreK-8 buildings will open at different points during the school year, continuing a modernization program funded by the state and local taxpayers.
In the ongoing effort to improve academic achievement throughout the District, 13 PreK-8 schools have adopted one of three instructional designs: inquiry-based learning, youth leadership development and personalized learning using technology.
One of those 13 schools is the new William Rainey Harper in Old Brooklyn. Harper, which opened Aug. 13 with preschool through third grade and will gradually expand until it includes the eighth grade, will also be the third school in the District to follow the International Baccalaureate model.
Harper Principal Ajayi Monell is one of nine new principals leading schools this year. Others are LaTosha Glass, Anton Grdina; Jocelyn Smith, Charles Dickens; Kristen Kelly, John Adams College and Career Academy; Dora Bechtel, James A. Garfield; Derrick Holifield, Kenneth W. Clement Boys' Leadership Academy; Tamara Clemmons (co-principal), Martin Luther King Jr. Campus; Jessica Gamble, Riverside; and Damon Holmes, Ginn Academy. CMSD's Aspiring Principals Academy, which is entering its fifth year, has now produced a fourth of the District's principals.
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Duplisea is finalist for Ohio Teacher of the Year
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Catherine Duplisea, a teacher at Orchard STEM School, is one of four finalists for 2019 Ohio Teacher of the Year.
The others finalists are Mona Al-Hayani of Toledo Early College High School, Bre Sambuchino of Loveland High School near Cincinnati and David Kaser of Barberton High School.
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A panel will interview the four teachers and pick a winner who will be announced in the fall. The state winner will compete for the National Teacher of the Year award, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Last month, Duplisea was named 2019 Teacher of the Year for Ohio State Board of Education District 11. She and 10 other regional winners then had a chance to become finalists.
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Camp introduces students to manufacturing (Video)
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There isn't a big difference between making steel and making ice cream. Don't believe it? Just ask the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who attended a recent Manufacturing Summer Camp at Max S. Hayes High School.
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The students participated in fun hands-on activities to learn how to be successful in the manufacturing field. From a tour of Mitchell's Ice Cream to soldering toys to making paper sculptures and working in Cleveland State University's new engineering facility, they learned it's never too early to start building their futures.
School-to-apprenticeship students try out trade
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Several of the new seniors at Max S. Hayes High School spent the summer working full time in sheet-metal fabricating shops. They also were building a future in the industry.
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The students are the first to participate in a new program that can lead directly from Max Hayes to a five-year apprenticeship as a sheet-metal worker.
Matt Gonzalez and Diamond Boylan got to know their way around the shop at Smith & Oby in Walton Hills with beginning apprentice's tasks – making slips and drives, loading trucks and pounding fittings. Gonzalez, certified as a welder since 10th grade, sometimes was able to apply that skill as well.
Congresswoman tours school construction site
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U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge visited a CMSD school construction site on Aug. 21, learning about minority participation in the project, the building’s unusual design and the school’s importance to the neighborhood.
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Fudge came to the location of the new Sunbeam PreK-8 School to hear about the role that The AKA Team, a minority- and woman-owned company, plays as associate construction manager. She met with owner Ariane Kirkpatrick at the invitation of Goldman Sachs, funder of the 10,000 Small Businesses program that trained Kirkpatrick in areas such risk management, financing and recruiting.
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Army of Believers presents 19 scholarships
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More than 600 CMSD supporters packed the ballroom at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel on Aug. 3, raising money for Army of Believers scholarships and honoring this year’s 19 recipients.
The new District graduates received $5,000 scholarships and laptop computers as they prepared to head to institutions that include Duke, Brown, Penn, Fordham, Case Western Reserve, the Berklee College of Music and the Culinary Institute of America.
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The group, selected on the basis of academic performance and community service, was the largest in the scholarship luncheon’s 11-year history. Honorary co-chair August Napoli Jr., president and CEO of the United Way of Greater Cleveland, captured the spirit in the ballroom with his opening remarks.
“We want our student scholars to know their quest for academic and personal achievement is worthwhile,” he said. “You are supported, you are loved and, while the journey may seem challenging at times, you must persevere.”
High-quality preschool enrollment climbing
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The number of high-quality preschool programs in Cleveland has more than doubled in the last two years to 131, the PRE4CLE provider network says in an annual report released Aug. 22.
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The report also says that the number of children enrolled in high-quality preschool has jumped by 69 percent since 2013, the year before CMSD and private providers came together to form PRE4CLE.
As a result, more than 4,800 children -- nearly two-thirds of those attending preschool -- are enrolled at sites designated as high quality. PRE4CLE defines high quality as earning at least three stars on the state’s Step Up to Quality rating system.
Tremont wins national award for partnerships
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Tremont Montessori School has won a national award in recognition of its success in building strong school, family and community partnerships.
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Tremont received one of six 2018 NNPS Partnership School Awards presented by the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University. The school also won the award two years ago.
“Tremont Montessori is applying research-based approaches to strengthen its welcoming climate and to engage parents and community partners in ways that improve student attendance, behavior, achievement, health, high school graduation rates and other student outcomes,” said Dr. Joyce L. Epstein, director of NNPS.
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