Canned Food Drive Ends Tomorrow

Reminder: Get Those PLTW Forms in by the End of December

Dear Parents and Students in Project Lead The Way Courses:

Since your child attends a PLTW-certified school, she/he can get a head start on engineering-related career and add prestige to their college admissions applications by receiving college credit from University of New Haven (UNH).

The process is simple:

The Peabody Museum is Holding an Art Contest for Martin Luther King Day

High school students should submit artwork by January 8.  $150 top prize.  Details here.

Fall Principal's Report to the PTO

Please read this Report from Mrs. Blue-Ellis.  It has some great information about college placement, teacher news, student awards, test scores, and grants.

New Haven Board of Education Meeting Monday, Dec. 14, at 5:30, Martinez School, 100 James St.

UPDATE: The agenda confirms the superintendent's contract extension will be considered at this meeting.

Meetings of the Board of Education are an opportunity for teachers, students, families, and community members to witness and participate in the decision-making about our schools.  Monday will be the final New Haven Board of Education meeting of 2015.  Though the agenda is not usually published until Sunday night, it seems likely two key issues will be discussed:

1. The vote to extend the current superintendent's contract is being considered before the end of 2015.  As next Monday's meeting is the final one of the year, the decision may be announced then.  Some object that such a significant decision should not be made with a Board of Education that is currently in transition.  If this concern resonates with you, you can read and sign this petition to postpone that vote until next month.

2. The Board of Education is currently in transition and is dealing with an issue that was made public last month: our BoE has 8 voting members, while the charter only allows for 7.  This was discussed at the previous Board of Education meeting where a proposal to keep all 8 voting members was announced.  One of the newly-elected BoE members, Darnell Goldson, wrote this op-ed raising concerns about the proposal to allow 8 voting members and disregarding the charter's referendum that legally only allows for 7 members.  The vote on this decision will happen at next Monday's BoE meeting.

Both of these issues will have an impact on the leadership of the school district and Board of Education.  You can attend the Board of Education meeting on Monday, December 14, 2015 @ 5:30PM at John S. Martinez School (100 James Street).  

ESUMS Wins Samsung Solve-for-Tomorrow Competition and Sikorsky Helicopter 2050 Challenge

http://www.cbs8.com/story/30706753/samsung-awards-20000-in-technology-to-51-public-schools-across-the-us-to-support-stem-learning-through-projects-that-address-community-issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQzVD5uz5Rg&app=desktop

Please Send in Toys for Holiday Toy Drive

Coffee And . . . Friday, December 4 at 8 am

Coffee And. . .  is back!  If you missed this week's PTO meeting or if you would like to join PTO officers and school administrators for a friendly conversation over coffee and bagels, please come to the conference room just behind the school office at 8 am on Friday morning.

What to Bring to Tonight's PTO Meeting - A Checklist

[ ]  Stop & Shop and ShopRite cards

[ ]  art supplies for the middle school  (art soap erasers, card stock hyper 8 1/2x11, bright colored card stock, marbled construction paper, colored pencils, Elmer's glue)

[ ]  working, used CD players for the 7th grade language arts classes

[ ]  BoxTops

[ ]  yourself, your creative energy . . . and maybe some cookies.  :)

ESUMS Student-Teacher Basketball Game 2015

Teachers win!

photo credit: Ms. Wassely

PTO Meeting Tuesday December 1 at 6:30 Following the Band Concert

Another TV News Story on ESUMS Tech Paris Project

Students Make Video To Support Paris

ESUMS Tech Students on TV News

Students Express Solidarity with Paris after Attacks

First REAL Homecoming Poetry Slam, Nov. 24

New Haven Board of Education Meeting Tonight

at 5:30, Martinez School, 100 James St.  No agenda has yet been published online.

Petition to Defer Vote on Superintendent's Contract Extension

If you have an opinion on whether it's better for the current Board of Education to push for a quick vote now or to wait until the newly elected members take their seats in January, please click for the link to petition.

June Levy Wins Parental Involvement Award for her Work at ESUMS

The State Education Resource Center (SERC) and the CT Parent Information and Resource Center (CT PIRC), are pleased to announce that June Levy has been selected to receive the 2015 Parental Involvement Recognition Award.  This award is being given in recognition of her impact and contributions to her local schools and/or community organizations through her involvement/engagement.

Congratulations, June!

Senior Vanessa Kuhlor Wins NHPS "I Rise" Award

http://www.nhps.net/node/3635

Sign Up to Bring Middle School Dance Refreshments

At this link.

This Morning is a Math Morning!

Sun, November 1, Davies Auditorium, 10 Hillhouse Avenue: 
Kelly Delp (Cornell): What can you make using cellular automata?
Suppose we have a line of boxes, each with two possible states, black or white. A 1-dimensional cellular automaton is a simple set of rules for determining how the states of these boxes change over time.  Slight changes in the rules can lead to vastly different patterns. In this talk we will look at examples of these 1-dimensional (and possibly 2-dimensional) automata and see how mathematical artists use them in beadwork, knitting, and image processing.

(Sorry for the late notice; this looks like a good one!)