School uniforms still required for some students even as they attend online classrooms
“Back to school” still means wearing uniforms for some students even if their classrooms are all online. School districts across Southern California are set to begin the school year with distance learning, and some private schools are requiring students to wear …
How the DOE is Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Spaces for All Our Students
In early January, The Morning Bell joined Chancellor Richard A. Carranza on a visit to Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance in Bedford-Stuyvesant to observe teacher Catherine Devine and her tenth graders engaged in a restorative circle. This activity looks just the way it sounds. Students sit in a circle and talk as a …
A former student traveled nearly 1,000 miles to celebrate this teacher’s retirement
Retirement was more of a pull than push for Laurie Kingsberry. At 58, she would have happily gone on working, she said. But as a new grandmother, she didn’t want the time she spent with her granddaughter to be limited by the …
Eat at These Popular New York City Restaurants to Help Fund Food Education for Kids
Summer is only a few weeks away, and in New York, that means flocking to restaurants with outdoor spaces, taking long lunches on Fridays, and crowding local ice cream shops until lines form along the block. However, it also marks the launch of Edible Schoolyard NYC’s …
This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile
Overcoming life’s basic truth: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not. In a homeless shelter in Manhattan, an 8-year-old boy is walking to his room, carrying an awkward load in his arms, unfazed by screams from a troubled resident. The boy is a Nigerian …
Be There For WINTER JAM NYC 2019
Saturday, January 26, 2019*11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central Park, ManhattanBandshell AreaEnter at 72nd Street Free Event for All Ages Presented by NYC Parks, the Olympic Regional Development Authority, I Love NY, and I Ski NY, Winter Jam is a free winter sports …