Superintendent's Weekly Updates

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• District Updates
• Athletic Updates
• Early Learning Center Updates
• Berkowitz School Updates
• Hooks School Updates
• Kelly School Updates
• Browne Middle School
• Chelsea High School Updates
• Chelsea Virtual Learning Academy Updates

The Chelsea Public Schools District Leadership Team gathered on Wednesday and recognized the school district's participants in the Chelsea Day Parade. The awards included:

• Best Student Representatives: Chelsea High School Percussion Ensemble
• Best Student Designed Decorations: Early Learning Center
• Best Waterproofing/Balloon Pencils: Hooks/Kelly Schools
• Best School Mascots: Berkowitz/Sokolowski Schools
• Best Utility Truck Conversion to Float: Wright Science & Technology Academy
• Best Wet Dog on a Float (Go Bulldogs): Browne Middle School
• Best Party Float: Chelsea Opportunity Academy

DLT also participated in professional development focused on using school data to improve teaching and learning, and heard a presentation from the Berkowitz School about its school practices.

Lesley from the Federation for Children presented at our Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC) meeting. In detail, she reviewed the MA New IEP. CPS appreciates our partnership with the Federation for Children.

On September 30th, the New Teacher Academy (NTA) cohort met for the first time since the start of the school year, to learn how to incorporate different strategies in order to better support their multilingual students. District leadership was present, including a co-presentation from Director of Multilingual Education (Dr. Alberto Carrero), and Assistant Director of Multilingual Education (Alma Pezo). The remainder of the session was dedicated to lesson planning, and incorporating strategies such as crafting language objectives within their lessons. Ayelia Ali, New Teacher Developer, is looking forward to seeing this in action when she visits the cohort's classrooms in the next coming weeks!

Healthy Chelsea hosted a table at the elementary Back to School event and shared healthy vegetables with families.

For more information, please email: athletics@chelseaschools.com

This year marks the 10th annual Turkey Trot to benefit the J. Barry Dwyer Scholarship & Chelsea High XC/Track & Field teams on November 23rd.

ELC hosted Open House for families this week. Families had access to community and school resources, visited classrooms and learned about school curriculum.

Mrs. Pergola's first graders at the Berkowitz School had their first shopping experience in the class store today. The students earn money for displaying positive behaviors and completing classroom jobs, all while learning about the value of money and the importance of spending and saving responsibly. They had so much fun practicing counting, making positive choices, and understanding rewards!

The Hooks School celebrated Custodial Day with students cards, door decorations and notes of thanks-- along with some sweet treats! Their gifts were presented by the September students of the ninth!

Grade one students at the Hooks School had their first publishing party where students got to share their writing pieces with other classrooms as well as school staff.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, students were asked to draw and color the flag of a Latin American country. Here we have James who proudly colored the Honduras flag and Camelia who brought in a fully decorated birdhouse with the colors of the Guatemalan flag and the national bird, the Quetzal! Simply beautiful!

Second grade scholars in K205 are reading and writing poetry. Here, Sra. Sánchez is pushing kids to explain how rhyming words affect the rhythm of the poem, while others practice fluent reading of a poem they wrote as a group!

First grade students participated in their first math bridging lesson this week. Classes worked together to build connections between math language in English to Spanish by finding similarities and differences in vocabulary.

7th-grade math teacher Rebecca Hernández engaged her students in a Bridge lesson at the end of their first math unit on scaled copies. Students compared vocabulary words in English and Spanish and noticed how the word order is different between the languages. They also noticed how Spanish words can be masculine or feminine but English words do not have gender.

The Alliance selected the CHS and BHCC Early College program to be highlighted and filmed.

The goal of the Early College video is to capture the voices and to explore a day in the life of an Early College student.

Superintendent Abeyta was interviewed as well as one Early College Student, Felipe Franco. The cameras followed him throughout his day from high school to college.

Professor Mirna Diaz invited Rep. Judith Garcia to visit her Street Law class and speak to the students about her experiences working in her current role. She also shared her college and career journey with the students and spoke about voting, lobbying, and activism.

The postgraduate students went to the collaborative to learn some cooking skills so they can face the real world with confidence and succeed. The students had so much fun participating! They will go to the collaborative every Friday to cook, and on Thursdays, they will go to Market Basket to get the ingredients. I want to give a huge shoutout to Alicia Carroll for coordinating this!

The first CHS Coffee Hour with the principal Obed Morales, CHS parents, and liaisons. 10/2/24.

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Please see the link below for the most recent edition of the CHS Family Newsletter:

• CHS Family/Community Newsletter

Last week, CVLA students and staff embraced the theme of “Challenge by Choice” during two engaging in-person educational experiences.

• Day one took place at Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA, where participants bonded through a variety of challenges, including a high ropes course. One of our students reflected on the day's success at our School Site Advisory Council meeting this week: “(What made the two days special was) seeing everybody get along and not be judgmental. It’s cool how everyone got along—no one had issues.”
• On day two, teams tackled the Boda Borg challenge, working collaboratively to solve escape room puzzles that tested their teamwork and problem-solving skills. Laughter and fun filled the air as students and staff navigated the themed based rooms together.

We look forward to our next in-person event and more opportunities to grow and connect as a community!

Chelsea Public Schools is a gateway school system that welcomes and educates ALL students.

Email: superintendent@chelseaschools.com