Schools closed for Winter Recess
All City School District of
Albany schools are closed this week
for Winter Recess. The Central Registration,
Special Education and Transportation
departments at Harriet Gibbons
Student Services Center also are
closed during the break.
Administrative offices in Academy
Park are open this week. The district will be fully
open for business again on Monday,
Feb. 25.
Basketball playoffs
The
Albany High School girls’ basketball team rallied in the fourth quarter
Thursday night to beat Bethlehem 56-47 and advance to the Section 2
Class AA semifinals.
The second-seeded
Lady Falcons (19-2) will play
third-seeded Saratoga Springs (16-5)
next Wednesday, Feb. 27 at Hudson
Valley Community College. Game time
is 8 p.m.
Please visit our Athletics News
section to read more.
Earn
your master's in
teaching
while you work
The
City School District of Albany is
looking forward to the third year of
its partnership with NYU Steinhardt
to help prepare new teachers using
an innovative residency model.
Learn more at our
upcoming Feb. 26 informational
meeting.
MWBE-Workforce Development
Community Update
All
are invited to join us on Thursday,
Feb. 28 for updates on the
Rebuilding Albany High School
project, as well as updates on the
district’s construction-related MWBE
and workforce development outreach
and community engagement activities.
Both sessions will present the same
information and will include a
complimentary meal.
The lunch
session will run from 10:30 a.m-1
p.m. at Hudson Valley Community
College in Troy, and the dinner
session from 5:30-8 p.m. at Albany
School of Humanities.
Please
RSVP here to let us know you’re
coming so we can plan accordingly.
Five Albany High students
selected for 2019 Boys State
Five
cadets in Albany High School's Sgt. Henry Johnson Battalion Junior
ROTC have been selected to attend American Legion Boys State this
summer.
“This is a first for Albany
High School, and I believe a first
for any public school in Albany
County,” said Retired Army Maj.
David Erickson, Albany High’s JROTC
instructor. (MORE)
Vote for ASH!
Vote early
and vote often. It’s a
tongue-in-cheek phrase but it’s
exactly what Albany School of
Humanities (ASH) needs you to do
online during
the month of February.
ASH is a
finalist in an online contest with a
grand prize of $25,000 in
indoor and outdoor fitness
equipment.
(MORE)
Pre-K lottery applications
available
Applications
are available through March 1 for the lottery to determine 2019-20 enrollment in the
City School District of Albany's prekindergarten program for
4-year-olds.
Download an application and information booklet here. You also
can pick up an application at any school or program or at Central
Registration, 75 Watervliet Ave. (MORE)
Delaware teacher joins national
protest
against U.S. policy on migrant
children
Delaware Community School fifth-grade teacher Zeo Tavares
Polanco joined teachers from throughout the country in El Paso over the
weekend of Feb. 16-17 to
protest the U.S. government’s practice of separating migrant children
from their parents when they try to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tavares Polanco will take part in a
10-hour “Teach-in for Freedom” on
Sunday being planned by the group
Teachers Against Child Detention.
(MORE)
Marching Falcons to take part
in
D-Day celebration in France
Get rid of those deposit bottles and support the Albany Marching
Falcons’ efforts to raise money for their June trip to France to
participate in the official parade and other activities honoring the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The Marching Falcons will be the only American high school band
performing in the ceremonies.
You can drop off the bottles at Capital Redemption Center, located at
610 Clinton Ave. It’s open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.-noon
weekends. When you make the drop-off, please ask that proceeds be
donated to the Albany Marching Falcons. (MORE)
Winter weather reminders
With wintry
weather in the forecast once again,
the City School District of Albany
offers a variety of ways for
families to keep up to date on
potential school delays or closings.
Please visit our District News
section for more information.
Lessons going 'swimmingly' for grade
2
February
marks the start of the learn-to-swim
program for second-graders
throughout the district.
But you
don't have to be in elementary
school to utilize the district's
pools.
(MORE)
TOAST students take to virtual skies
Using
flight simulators in their school’s computer lab, fifth-graders at
Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) on Feb. 4 took
to the virtual skies and showed off their takeoff, flying and landing
skills to a world-traveling pilot and educator.
Their audience was Captain
Barrington Irving, who at the age of
23 became the youngest person and
first African-American to fly solo
around the world. He still spends
plenty of time in an airplane and
also pilots
The Flying Classroom,
a digital curriculum based on his
travels. (MORE)
Surprise reunion for Hackett cousins
Army
National Guard sisters Jessica and Erica Gonzalez, just finishing up a
tour in Kuwait, came straight from the airport on Feb. 1 to William S.
Hackett Middle School, where their kids are sixth-graders.
Staff Sgt. Jessica and
Specialist Erica both were both
deployed in March 2018 and hadn’t
seen hadn’t seen Breannie Jackson,
Jessica’s daughter, and Christopher
Sang, Erica’s son, since. (MORE)
State identifies nine
district schools in Good
Standing
Nine City
School District of Albany schools,
including Albany High School and
William S. Hackett Middle School,
have been identified in Good
Standing based on their overall
academic progress, according to
accountability data the State
Education Department released
Thursday.
The nine
schools in Good Standing are the
most the district has had since
2010-11.
Please visit our District News
section to read more.
Albany High artists recognized
The clay pieces of three Albany High
School students were selected for
the Art in Three Dimensions show at
Mohonasen High School.
Congratulations to Moe Sandar,
Laurel Stix and Julian Rodriguez. Of
the 242 pieces submitted from
throughout the Capital District, 76
pieces were accepted for the juried
show.
(MORE)
District students win
Black History Month contest
Five City School
District of Albany students were among area winners in the Black History
Month Creative Expressions contest sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority Alumnae Chapter of Albany.
Winners of the written entry category included
Albany High School junior Mikayla Williams’ essay, “Black History Month:
A Need for Change,” and William S. Hackett Middle School sixth-grader
Rowan Hoehn’s essay, “Through the Eyes of a Child Slave.”
(MORE)
FirstView
allows you use your smartphone or
desktop to track the location and
direction of your student’s bus,
your student's stop schedule for the
current day, and times for school
arrivals and departures. You’ll know
when the bus gets to school in the
morning and leaves in the afternoon.
Please visit our District News
section to read more.
Albany
High School’s graduation rate increased to 68 percent in 2018, the
school’s fifth consecutive year with an increase and its highest rate
since the state started measuring graduation under its current
methodology in 2005.
To
help highlight some of the primary
areas of focus in our district
priorities for this school year and
beyond, we have produced a series of
videos to start the school year. In
addition to Superintendent Kaweeda
G. Adams, these videos also feature
the voices of individuals –
students, staff and community
partners – speaking on the topics of
school and community safety, student
attendance, positive student
engagement and the importance of
community partnerships. (
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