First Two Days of School

Tuesday -

2 hour advisory (back to school stuff, laptops, trans passes, schedules, paperwork, etc.)

8:15-10:15am - 2 hour advisory

10:20-11:35 - X1 band

11:40-12:45 - Y1 band

12:50-1:55 - A1 Band

2:00-3:05 - B1 Band

Wednesday -

1 hour advisory (get back paperwork, discuss any changed schedules)

8:15-9:15am - 1 hour advisory

9:20-10:25 - C1 Band

10:30-11:35 - D1 Band

11:40-12:45 - E1 Band

Dismiss -- Grade-Level Advisors will assign work for the kids to do. (12th - Naviance, etc...)

Dear SLA,

The art students are going to start collecting plastic bottle caps for thier first marking period unit. PLEASE! Bring in all the bottle caps you can to help with our mission.

Essential Questions:

How are plastics affecting our environment/food supply?

What percentage of plastics are being recycled / injested by humans and animals?

What can be done with the excess plastic created?

Summer Institute 2010

***ATTENTION UPPERCLASSMEN!  Your sleep is important to us -- please do NOT arrive until 10:00am on Monday.  We will have a meeting in the library at 10:00am and then you may welcome our new 9th-graders to SLA. 

General Schedule for 9th-Graders

Please contact Ms. Gierke at jgierke@scienceleadership.org with questions!

Attention all incoming 9th graders!

Summer Institute is happening next week! We will begin at 9:00am on Monday and dismiss at noon.  For Tuesday through Friday, we will begin again at 9:00am but dismiss at 12:30pm.  We encourage you to bring your own lunch and/or snacks as lunch will not be served in the Café.

If you are volunteering as an upperclassman, please arrive by 8:45am with your labcoat or SLA t-shirt.  

Cross-Country practice will begin next Monday, August 23rd, at 4:00 in the Café. Come join us hydrated and dressed to run! All students are welcome but will be required to get a physical in order to compete.  Please contact Srta. G. with any questions.

Official Fall soccer practices start Monday August 16th at 8am.  

Meet at the school with water, running gear and soccer gear.

Practice will last 1.5-2 hours.

Contact Mr. VK @ mvank@scienceleadership.org with any questions.

The Science Leadership Academy was named America's ten most amazing schools in the September 2010 issue of the Ladies Home Journal! The SLA community is proud to be honored along such a prestigious and innovative group of schools! Be sure to read the article to find out more about some of the most interesting schools in the country! 

The Girls' Volleyball team will begin practice on Tuesday, August 24th at Greenfield Elementary School (22nd & Chestnut Streets) from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm and continue throughout the week.  Anyone interested in being part of the team MUST come to preseason practice and MUST have a completed physical.  Participants should also bring a volleyball and knee pads to practice.  If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Mrs. Hirschfield at khirschfield@scienceleadership.org or call 917-797-9807.  

Congratulations to Science Leadership Academy's first graduating class, the Class of 2010!!!

We are all so proud of all your accomplishments, and we wish you the best of luck! Stay in touch!

Here are the photos from graduation, taken by Darryl Moran.

Mr. Lehmann has spoken the text of his speech on his blog. The ceremony will be online soon, and we will be selling copies of a DVD of graduation as well.

Here's my video of my children's book.

http://www.schooltube.com/video/4951f89f7395c15300ed/Taniera-Reids-Brown...

During the 4th quarter, 9th grade students of African American history created 30-second commercials.  Several components of the project included the following:

• Inquiry: Students defined their own questions and topics about African American history (1865-present)
• Research: Students researched "freedom and liberty" (as described in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights) and related each to their inquiry
• Collaboration: Students worked together to write a non-fictional profile of a historical event and how it relates to freedom and responsibility --- with 3 MLA citations.
• Presentation: Students used a variety of media (iMovie, garage band, blip.tv, Wikispaces) to organize and
  share their non-fiction profile essays and 30-second commercials.

Here are a few student samples:

Danny Weinman's take on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Q4 benchmark 

http://www.schooltube.com/video/bbe2efc1490d87077480/What-If-HipHop-or-Rap-Didnt-Incorporate-Violence

Catherine Young

es video es sobre mi sueno's por el furturo

http://www.schooltube.com/video/4f398b7fc337824c4500/Willard-Q4-spanish-...

Congratulations to juniors Melissa Buchanico and Lauren Mobly for making the School District of Philadelphia's Carpenter Cup all-star team. They will be playing their first game at 9am on June 21st in front of local media and college scouts. Congratulations to Lauren and Missy for their hard work!

We would also like to recognize SLA's All-Public softball players: Lauren, Melissa and Bria Wimberly on 1st team and Maggie Long and Emma Hersh on 2nd team.

Samantha Beattie

Copper Stream

C Band

CHARACTERS:

Samantha Beattie

Copper Stream

C Band

CHARACTERS:

http://sites.google.com/site/capstonedemuro/

Capstone Process Paper

I decided to change history by thwarting the assassination of Lincoln and deciding how it would effect the Black Community in the future.

Take a look:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2122259/HIstory%20Benchmark.pages

This is a New York Times article I did on MLK becoming the first Black President as a result decades later from Lincoln surving.

What a world would look like if Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't ever president.

http://www.schooltube.com/video/8c17c238a686e4e31cf0/A-History-without-F...

http://martinlutherkingbm.wikispaces.com/

Lets Go...

My project is about Lyndon B Johnson not signing the Wilderness Act in 1964. My project is presented in a scrapbook starting with Howard Zahniser the creator of the Wilderness Act talking about his hopes for the act and the results, it then starts with a grandchild of his finding the book and adding picture of how the act not getting signed affected America today in 2010.

This is my capstone, which features EPIC learning, Educating People by Innovation and Creation. For my capstone, I did a series of four engineering projects that deal with concepts featured in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3045847/History%204th%20Benchmark.zip

http://whatifqfour.wikispaces.com/

My Project is about President Lincoln and his assassination. What if President Lincol is assassinated before the Emancipation Proclamation is written and no one else has the idea of creating it?

http://2010historybenchmarkrnurse.wikispaces.com/

http://mockuppatriciaparker.wikispaces.com/

The decision in the 1950's under President Eisenhower to go with the interstate highway system instead of developing a mass public transit. It shows how it enlarged and continued the American obsessioin with automobiles and dependence on oil over time within a imovie, newsletter, and toyota add