Superintendent's Weekly Updates

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A group of students in the Chelsea High School Jazz Band and Cantare learned last Friday that they will be performing at Walt Disney World this spring! The students were selected to perform after submitting an audition featuring music performed at the CHS Winter Concert. They will now get to experience the magic of Disney World where they will perform a selection of jazz-based music!

We will have plenty more information to share about this incredible opportunity for our students. A special thank you to State Senator Sal DiDomenico for his role in making this possible.

Rehearsals have already started for this performance at the “Most Magical Place on Earth”!

Chelsea Public Schools had the pleasure of welcoming Richard Carranza, the former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education and Superintendent of Schools in both Houston and San Francisco, to the district this week!

Richard spent time at Chelsea High School where he visited classrooms, listened to and had conversations with CHS students, presented to CHS staff and participated in a conversation with family members from schools across the district. He even gave a special musical performance to CHS staff!

A nationally respected educational leader, he shared valuable insights on the importance of school culture, resilience and adaptability, family empowerment and so much more. Thank you, Richard, for spending time in Chelsea and getting to know our school community by name, strength and story!

Thanks to the Chelsea Kiwanis Club for donating winter coats and accessories to Catie’s Closet, helping Chelsea Public Schools provide warmth and comfort to students in need this winter.

A reminder that there is no school on Monday in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

On Monday, our school communities are invited to attend the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Chelsea. The event will be at the Morris H. Seigal Clark Avenue Middle School. It will include musical performances from students as well as recognitions for our students who won the annual MLK poetry and art contest that happens in our schools.

The event begins with a breakfast at 9:00. The formal program will start at 10:15.

For the fourth straight year, elementary school students from CPS will sing at the Boston Children's Chorus Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert!

Today was the students' final rehearsal at the Mary C. Burke Elementary Complex before heading to Symphony Hall on Monday for the 23rd annual MLK Tribute Concert. Students in this after school program have been rehearsing weekly to get ready for Monday's performance.

The concert will be at 4:00 on Monday at Symphony Hall. Best of luck to these amazing student vocalists.

Check out upcoming games for next week.

Girls Basketball: Melize Siliro, Maya Ortiz, Isabel Serrano

Indoor Track: Kevin Romero, Harmony Rogers

Wrestling: Hassan Aljiboury

Boys Basketball: Sophonie Nkurunziza, Moe Osman, Matthew Merino Del Rio

Photography club practiced illusion techniques this week! They had a great time creating ideas to bring to life with their photographs!

Music Club had a nice guitar practice this week in small groups!

Chess club was having fun competing against each other!

Tutoring Club was hard at work this week!

Art Studio students with Ms. Gilmartin have been working on their sketching, competing in timed-art challenges and experimenting with needle felting!

In the Yearbook Committee with Ms. Waxman and Ms. Metsky, students have decided on a Front Cover for this year's issue! Can't believe how quickly that time of year is coming up!

WSTA Yearbook Club members are hard at work creating pages for the year book.

The intramural soccer season for 5th and 6th grade boys and girls has begun. The Browne Boys team is hard at work as they try out for their school team. Coach Candes and Coach Tran speros can do it all, as they have both coached the boys and girls basketball teams for the last few months.

Regards

ELC First graders have been learning about animals. This week, students in Ms. Scott and Mr. Cardona’s class started a research project in which they got to choose an animal and work with their group mates to research the animal using the virtual books on PebbleGo. As they learned about their animal, they worked together to take notes. The students were so excited to learn all about their animals, and they did a great job working collaboratively!

Next week, they will use the notes they took to write an informational report about their animal. Great job, researchers!

Fourth graders in room 319 worked really hard on this last fish tank unit and they closed out natural disasters with a research project and reviewing vocabulary to become vocab masters to prepare for their content assessment! They made study guides and built study schedules to work on review at home.

Second graders have been taking the ACCESS all week but we always have time for word work in phonics!

Third graders of the Kelly School invited their families to come to their bilingual storm book publishing party this week. Students wrote nonfiction books about storms with different chapters in English and Spanish and included non-fiction text features. Students also recited a storm chant in both English and Spanish. Staff, families and students used sticky notes to write positive comments about each other’s books and students were excited to about all the positive feedback!

We had a good representation of 4th grade parents at our Browne information meeting.

Third graders enjoyed their end of unit reading celebration.

Fabulous turnout at the Biliteracy and Math Family night!

Our students from the student site council worked with students in our functional academics classroom for inclusive learning opportunities.

BMS had a special visit from Cash (named in honor of CPD Sergeant Arthur Cashin). Cash is welcome back any time.

Congratulations to WSTA students Ethan Fernandes-Vas (President), Jazmye Mejia (Vice President), Izzy Iraheta (Chief Financial Officer), Cailyn Sanchez, Amina Sabtow, Angel Garcia, Valerie Garay, Kaylee Carmona, & Miguel Fuentes on their election to the National Junior Honor Society. The election was conducted by the NJHS Voting Committee composed of Jen Porto, Alyssa Murphy, Damon Bailey, Chelsey Aldrich, Alex Grey, Emily Oberg and John Ruggiero (NJHS Lead).

The Junior National Honor Society at the Wright Science & Technology Academy will be collecting winter coats, hats, gloves, & boots from January 20th-Januayr 30th to help keep the WSTA community warm. Donations can be accepted in the main lobby between 7:30am or 8:00am each day.

WSTA Instructional Coaches hosted their first Coaches, Coffee & Connections, creating an informal and welcoming space for staff to connect with coaches, ask questions, and share ideas. It was a great opportunity to enjoy meaningful conversation, collaboration, coffee, and a sweet treat to start the week off right.

Mr. Meyers shares exciting news with three students selected as winners of the MLK Contest. Mark was recognized for his winning essay, Reynica for her powerful poetry, and Jalexa for her inspiring artwork. We are incredibly proud of their achievements.

Yesterday in the Functional Academics classroom at CHS, Ashley Portillo Arevalo taught chapter 5 of an adapted version of Animal Farm to the class! She used her AAC device to review chapters 1-4 as a whole group, created small groups, led the groups through discussion questions and then graded the students' work after they answered comprehension and inferential questions. She was an amazing teacher and I am so proud of her!

For upcoming events with the CHS counselors, please see the attached flier!

This week, COA staff and students focused in on ACCESS testing. Thank you to all students who participated and a special shout out to Mr. Schmidt, Ms. Katsy, Ms. Psallidas, Ms. Kenen and Ms. Basile for their amazing work in organizing this for our students and school. Your support in this process is greatly appreciated by all!