Youth Empowerment Summit goes virtual
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
People participating in large group discussion at Island Voice s 15th Annual Youth Empowerment Summit on February 27, 2021 (Staten Island Advance/Giavanni Alves)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. More than 120 people logged into Zoom for Island Voice’s 15th annual Youth Empowerment Summit on Saturday, which was centered around the theme of “How are you doing? Growing together.”
The theme was centered around the mental health challenges that many people, especially students, have been facing during the pandemic. It was also to provide tools such as mindfulness practices for managing these challenges.
Addressing educational inequity on Staten Island: ‘Who’s to blame?’
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
In an effort to seek the root causes of the educational struggles seen predominantly on the North Shore, an ad-hoc committee of the Staten Island branch of the NAACP gathered a panel of educators, administrators and community leaders to participate in a recent virtual forum. The event, titled Who s to Blame?, was attended by about 100 people. (Staten Island Advance/Giavanni Alves)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The Staten Island chapter of the NAACP recently hosted a virtual forum on educational inequities in the borough and the various challenges including low proficiency rates in reading and math and chronic absenteeism facing many schools on the North Shore.
NYC schools chancellor engages in virtual art, music classes with Staten Island kids
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza joined two Google Meet classrooms at PS 29 in Castleton Corners. This photo shows the chancellor in a virtual art class with teacher Zach Lombardi and his students. He is showing off his paper sculpture he made. (Staten Island Advance/Screenshot by Annalise Knudson)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Educators across Staten Island have been finding new ways to engage their students in remote learning since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza was able to see firsthand how those educators are giving music and art lessons virtually.