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  • Deputy Chancellor Weiner visits our AP English Class

    November 29, 2012 - 9:03am
    Deputy Chancellor David Weiner visits Mrs. Matthusen's AP English Class

    Mrs. Matthusen, AP Language and Composition teacher:

    As part of our unit on issues in education, Deputy Chancellor Weiner visited AP Language and Composition. He gave students an overview of his role in the city's Department of Education, discussing the changing methods of evaluating teachers. He got our students' feedback on their own thoughts about teacher evaluations, and how to include student voices in the process. Students referenced our articles by Jay Mathews and Brent Staples that covered the role of grades in teacher evaluations, and the meaning of grades in education.

    Click here to view more photos of the visit.

  • Meet Our New Student Leaders

    November 26, 2012 - 1:25pm

    Student Government 2012[1]

    Congratulations to our new student leaders!

    We are proud to have an exceptionally active and organized student government, which serves as a voice for the students and liaison between the school administration. Under the guidance of Ms. Marinos, our Social Studies teacher and Chair of the Social Studies Department, the student leaders meet weekly to discuss projects, proposals, and create action plans to fulfill their goals. Representatives from grades 6 through 12 work together to improve communication between the grades.

    Student Government is working hard on planning our first school wide event.  On Friday November 30th (between 2:30 and 6:00), they will be hosting East-West first Hunger Games!

    More information will follow.

    Click here to view photos from the East-West Hunger Games

  • Toy Drive for U.S. Troops for the Holidays

    November 26, 2012 - 12:58pm

    We are asking for the East-West community's participation in a toy drive for the children of deployed military personnel in Queens and in the greater New York Region.

    All toys will be donated to FreeMAT (Freedom Medical Aid Team) a voluntary organization of employees from New York Hospital of Queens who have been collecting toys and personnel care items from Queens residents for the U.S. military since 2002.

  • School Calendar Changes due to Hurricane Sandy

    November 20, 2012 - 12:17pm

    Dear Families,

    As you know, Hurricane Sandy resulted in the loss of instructional school days. To ensure that students have the opportunity to make up the learning time they missed due to the storm, they will need to make up these days later in the year:

    • All schools will hold full-day sessions from Wednesday, February 20, through Friday, February 22. These days were previously scheduled as part of mid-winter recess.
    • Elementary schools, intermediate/junior high schools, and D75 schools will hold full-day sessions on Tuesday, June 4, which was previously scheduled as a shortened clerical day for these schools.

    Please note these changes as you determine your plans for these dates. Additional information on the impact of Hurricane Sandy is available in an FAQ for families on the DOE web site, http://schools.nyc.gov/.

    Please contact your school’s principal or parent coordinator with any questions or concerns.

    Sincerely,


    Dennis M. Walcott

  • UN4U Visits East-West

    November 8, 2012 - 12:37pm

    As part of the United Nations'commemoration of UN Day on October 24, UN4U provided our students the opportunity to have an up-close and personal overview of the UN with a UN official, followed by a Q&A of what is happening in the world.

    Mr. John Ericson, Chief of Outreach Unit for Strategic Planning and Staffing at the United Nations addressed our East-West community on the role of the United Nations as well as the Millennium Development Goals: End Poverty and Hunger, Universal Education, Gender Equality, Child Health, Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS, Environmental Sustainability, Global Partnership.

    Ms. Gorry, who has been running the Model UN program at East-West for the past three years, spoke with enthusiasm about encouraging our students to become active members of East-West's Model UN.  She explained that the Global Classrooms Model UN program is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda.

    We can see Ms. Gorry and Mr. Ericson had a very captive audience.

    With some taking notes...

    Our East-West students are very concerned with current issues.  They had thought out questions that even surprised our speaker.  One was about the Piracy attacks in Somali, and another about what sanctions are in place when countries bypass UN authority?

    Click here to see more photos of UN4U

    Click here to see photos of our Model UN Club

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