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One Northside Youth eXcel Youth Council Summer 2019

Education, One Northside

The One Northside Youth eXcel (ONYX) Youth Council is a group of Northside-based young people who are empowered to build community and solve problems in their neighborhoods. This summer, the ONYX Youth Council worked together to identify important issues on the Northside and administer a mini-grant program they designed to address those issues.

Excitingly, students received funding through the One Northside initiative to facilitate the grant program, and the eight ONYX Youth Council members spent weeks hard at work developing an application for their program. Through research, community meetings, and brainstorming sessions, the Council members chose to focus their mini-grants on improving community safety and providing residents access to literacy programs.

Fourteen proposals came in from a variety of organizations throughout the Northside, and the ONYX Youth Council selected four winning projects that focused on safety or literacy on Pittsburgh’s Northside. Each proposal received a grant from $500 to $1,000. The winning organizations were Allegheny Youth Development, Propel Northside, Hands to Give, and the Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh.

After giving out the grant awards, the ONYX Youth Council rounded out their summer by presenting at the Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time (APOST) summer conference. The Council prepared and led a session on the concept of “childhood adultification” – a process in which youth are prematurely, and often inappropriately, exposed to adult knowledge and assume extensive adult roles and responsibilities within their family networks.

Summer 2019 was a huge success for the ONYX Youth Council! Now, the Council is looking to expand and invite more young people to participate. All Northsiders from grades 8-12 are eligible, and applications will be released in November. For more information, contact Serena Virgi at serena.virgi@unitedwayswpa.org.

October 1, 2019
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Nate Smallwood, Tribune-Review

Art project in Northview Heights helping children express themselves

Education

The pillows are more than blue fabric decorated and stuffed with foam.

They say something about the young person who made them.

One says “Jesus Loves You.” Another reads “#RIP.” A third has the number “187” on it, a three-digit synonymous with murder, crime and police. Another read “Gang, Gang.”

The pillows are part of an art project for children who live in Northview Heights, a North Side neighborhood and housing complex. Ulric Joseph, who teaches art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Md., but lives on the North Side, led the project, which is funded by the Buhl Foundation.

Joseph recently won Best in Show at the Dollar Bank Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Juried Visual Art Exhibition in June. He has led the Northview Heights art project for the past two years. Last year, the children created masks. Last week, the children decorated their pillows.

“Some followed directions and others didn’t,” Joseph said of the kids. “Some never came back. Doing this is not about the money. I see my kids in these kids, and I just want the kids to have a good experience.”

The children, most 14 or younger, show up for the art class at a church in Reserve Township on the boarder of Northview Heights. They come in from homes that may be tense or broken and from streets that can be prone to violence and crime, Joseph said.

Inside the church, they find a welcoming room, other children like them and Joseph, who is eager to spend time with them.

Each of the 50 kids was given a pillow and asked to create designs on both sides. Last Wednesday, Joseph talked about the work as he helped them stuff the pillows so they could take with them.

Making pillows is about more than creating a soft space for the children to rest their heads, Joseph said. It also gives them a chance to be creative and express themselves.

After the craft, the kids get dinner.

“This is about feeding the kids good, nutritious food,” said Cheri Pogue, chief operating officer for United Methodist Church Union, a non-profit that brings the free food for the kids. “And we also want to feed their soul. Without the grant we would not be able to do this art.”

Joseph asked each child to put his or her name on the pillow so he would know which one belonged to which boy or girl. He had the children make designs on cyanotype, a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. The original is green but changes to blue when it’s exposed to the light.

It was fun for Tayonnah White, 8, who said she loves that the pillow is fluffy.

“It’s cute,” she said.

Passion Cox, 8, wrote “Jesus Loves You,” on her pillow because she said she loves Jesus.

“I really liked making the pillow,” Passion said. “I am going to take it home and sleep on it.”

Honestty Robinson, 12, put her nickname, Onney, on the pillow. She also had some social media hashtags, including “#RIP,” for her late uncle and other people special to her.

“Our pastor has this for something for us to do and this is helping our neighborhood do stuff,” Honestty said of the craft. “It creates positive things.”

Rev. Diana E. Marshall, pastor at New Dawn Beginnings Outreach where the kids worked on their crafts, said the project brings smiles to their faces.

“The kids get a kick of out this project,” Marshall said. “This project gives these children a sense of responsibility and discipline; and that it takes steps to come to fruition; and they learn patience. Once they understand the process, they want to help others.”

 

Originally published on July 14, 2019

SOURCE: Tribue-Review

July 30, 2019
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Kidsburgh: Programs Offer Golf Lessons & Life Lessons For All Kids

Education

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The golf season is in full swing, with the Masters last month and the PGA tournament this weekend.

If you’re interested in your child trying golf, some programs are making it accessible and affordable for all kids. Some national golf programs with local franchises in our area are spreading the love of the game to kids who otherwise might never have played golf, and they’re teaching life lessons along with it.

A school gym becomes a make-shift golf course, and golf simulators help kids envision the course. They are all ways to bring golf to kids who otherwise might never play. TGA Premier Sports and The First Tee both offer programs here in Pittsburgh and around the country to teach kids how to play golf, using the sport to teach values as well.

Rio Hawkins first learned golf when she was a kid in The First Tee program, and now she’s a coach.

“I was the at-risk youth that they were trying to target at the time, and I don’t know where I would be without the program,” Hawkins said. “It gave me a sense of myself. It showed me who I could be and how far I can go.”

(Photo Credit: KDKA)

The First Tee offers golf lessons to kids ages 5 to 18 with after-school programs, in-school programs, even home-school programs, as well as summer camps. They’re in every Pittsburgh Public School, and Pittsburgh Police serve as volunteer coaches.

Eighth grader Nasario Mackey just started golf with The First Tee at their program at Pleasant Ridge on the North Side. He says coach Rio inspires him.

“She teaches you, it’s not just about power when you swing it. It’s about the speed when it comes down. And she is a very good mentor,” he said.

Hawkins says they focus on nine core values that tie into the game of golf, like honesty.

“Golf is the only sport that you kinda don’t have a referee. You’re your own referee. You’re calling your own penalties on yourself. Technically, you’re the boss, so honesty is big in golf,” she said.

(Photo Credits: KDKA)

The TGA Premier Sports program stands for Teach, Grow, Achieve. It’s also about using sports to teach life lessons.

“We talk about all those wonderful skills you need in life – perseverance, sportsmanship, integrity and then the golf skills are kind of thrown in along with that,” TGA Pittsburgh owner, Michele Psilos, said.

Along the way, the kids learn chipping, putting, and golf terminology. TGA also offers after-school programs at places like the gym and playground at Streams Elementary in Upper Saint Clair, and summer camps on local golf courses.

Both TGA and The First Tee will provide golf clubs and scholarships so that every child has a chance to play.

“Generally, if you don’t have anybody that plays in your family, you’re not exposed to the sport, so it’s a great way to do that,” Psilos said.

“I like that it’s always interactive, and it’s always fun,” student Emily Menke, at Streams Elementary, said.

 

Originally published on May 15, 2019

SOURCE: CBS Pittsburgh

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Pittsburgh Public looks toward the future with STEAM curriculum

Education

Last fall, before the snow arrived in Pittsburgh, seventh-grade students on the North Side visited the North Pole.

They spoke with scientists there who were studying polar bears and got a glimpse of the gear they were using. The students, warm in their classroom at Pittsburgh Schiller 6-8 in Troy Hill, tweeted their questions to the researchers, who answered them immediately on a live video stream.

“It was very interactive, so the kids loved it,” said Kaitlyn Whitfield, a science teacher at the middle school who arranged the virtual field trip for her classes.

The exercise was set up through Discovery Education, a resource for schools created by the same media company that owns the Discovery Channel. Ms. Whitfield this year has been using the digital program in her seventh- and eighth-grade classes, where her students are now researching the Apollo space missions as part of their unit on lunar phases. She also has used the program’s readings and short video clips for her lessons on the water cycle and electrical circuits.

Pittsburgh Public Schools recently entered a formal partnership with Discovery Education that will enable the district access to its digital curriculum and professional development and training for its educators as the district strives to transform all schools into STEAM-centered learning environments.

STEAM — or science, technology, engineering, arts and math — education has been touted by education experts, business leaders and elected officials across the country as the future of education.

Schools everywhere have been creating maker spaces and mobile science labs, applying for technology grants and developing new computer science and engineering lesson plans, all in an effort to teach students to be creative problem-solvers and to work collaboratively. It’s a quest, experts say, to prepare young people for jobs and careers that haven’t even been created yet.

“This type of learning and what kids are going to have to be able to know and be able to do to have those jobs, we’re not really preparing them based on our current model,” said PPS Chief Academic Officer Minika Jenkins. “We need to make a bigger shift and our classroom environments have not really changed since the Industrial Revolution.”

Initially pitched to the school board as a multi-million dollar purchase and plan to immediately embed the Discovery Education curriculum in all Pittsburgh Public schools, district officials instead decided to phase it in as a pilot program in the district’s six schools that have a STEAM focus. Besides Schiller, a partial STEAM magnet, Langley K-8, Woolslair Pre-K-5, Lincoln Pre-K-5, Brashear High School and Perry High School, will begin using the programs next year.

The district will pay about $657,000 over the next three years for access to the Discovery Education online catalog of resources for students and teachers, as well as the training and support Discovery Education provides to teachers and administrators. In four years, Ms. Jenkins said, the district hopes to roll out the training to all 54 schools and customize a STEAM plan for each building. Even the classroom furniture could look different by then, she said.

“What we’re really doing is changing the culture of [each] school,” she said.

Cassie Quigley, an associate professor of science education at the University of Pittsburgh and a 2019 Pennsylvania STEM ambassador, said many school districts are starting to embrace STEAM education, and supporting teachers with professional development and training is vital to that mission. State standardized tests are also starting to assess “21st-century learning” skills, prompting students to analyze data, construct models, design experiments and communicate the results.

“I think that there are the right sorts of initiatives moving forward,” Ms. Quigley said. “I think schools have a real challenge in their requirements in terms of what they need to do within a certain time frame. I think there are exciting opportunities on the horizon for this sort of work.”

Ms. Quigley, who this month published a book for educators on STEAM practices in the classroom, said Discovery Education allows teachers to be flexible to meet different students’ needs and show students how their subjects are relevant to their daily lives.

According to Discovery Education, schools that have been using its various products across the country have reported positive effects on student performance: improved state test scores in Oak Ridge schools in Tennessee and Miami-Dade schools in Florida; better science scores for students who speak English as a second language in Collier County, Fla.; and better end-of-course exam scores for students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina.

Initially under threat of closure, Schiller launched its STEAM program in 2014, said Principal Paula Heinzman. Now, the school has more than 200 students and a waiting list of more than 50 for its sixth-grade classes. For the last two years, it has been a STAR school, ranking among the top schools in Pennsylvania. Seven Schiller eighth-grade students were accepted into Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy magnet high school for next year, compared to last year’s two, Ms. Heinzman said.

According to the Future Ready PA Index, 47.6 percent of Schiller students scored proficient or advanced on state standardized English language arts tests, 20.1 percent in math and 25 percent in science. All students either met or exceeded state expectations for growth in performance last year.

STEAM teacher Nicole Findon said every student in the school visits her classroom every six days. Each quarter, they study a different subject: computer coding, engineering, robotics and video game design. Ms. Findon, who has been at Schiller for four years, said she writes her own curriculum.

In addition to learning important science and technology skills, she said the goal is for students to take the skills they learn in the STEAM lab and use them to help solve word problems in math class or to analyze passages and documents in language arts.

“(STEAM) is a way of thinking,” Ms. Findon said.

On a recent school day, Schiller students were working in the school’s STEAM lab on the second floor. A sixth-grade student worked on a video game design project, and a group of eighth graders huddled at a desk, connecting computer code that they wrote to a circuit they designed to power small LED lights, motors and motion sensors.

One of the students, Tanzania Livsey, 14, has plans to incorporate the technology into a diorama project, complete with spinning dance floor and light-up disco ball. Xzavier Rodgers, 14, is designing a security system with motion sensors that would send a digital alert to Ms. Findon’s cell phone, activate blinking lights and automatically slide a deadbolt lock into place.

Ms. Heinzman said she was initially skeptical of the virtual field trip to the North Pole in November, because she worried the students wouldn’t participate. But the engagement was “amazing.” She wants Ms. Whitfield to show the school’s other teachers how to use the Discovery Education online resources even sooner than next year.

“We just really need to step our game up because the children want it,” Ms. Heinzman said. “We have to prepare our kids for the jobs we don’t even know about yet. …I feel like this is a resource that helps us achieve that.”

 

Originally published on March 30, 2019

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 28, 2019
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Mastering the drone: Flips, leaps and sputters fuel learning curve

Education

Drones are fun to play with and some are even cute, but beware — they can frustrate you, tease you, even startle you.

Donald Poindexter and Ayanna Hall know first hand as students of the Drone Academy, held every Thursday after school at Nova Place, Allegheny Center, on the North Side.

At a recent session, Ayanna, a freshman at City High, was ready to send her drone up. She placed the little Tello on the table, picked up her phone, activated the app and — zhurrrrp! — the drone leapt at her and she recoiled. Her classmates laughed, she laughed and their instructor, Lori Paluti, smiled.

These drones, she said, will “do their best to foil you.”

Donald’s turn: The Central Catholic 11th-grader positioned his Tello, activated the app and it shot straight up, slamming into a ceiling tile. Amid howls of laughter, the wide-eyed operator tried again. Same result.

“Well,” he said, “it works.”

The Drone Academy began last fall and runs through April as a remote program of the Citizen Science Lab, a fee- and foundation-supported nonprofit based at the Energy Innovation Center in the Hill District.

Instructor Lori Paluti, left, helps disassemble a drone with Andre Curry, 15, of Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, during Citizen Science Lab on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at CoLab18 in the North Side.

The Drone Academy’s host is CoLab18, a co-working space for North Siders; 18 refers to the number of North Side neighborhoods.

The students are using three small drones — the 2-pound Mavic; the Tello, at about a pound, and the Inductrix, which sits in the palm of your hand and looks vaguely like a snowflake ornament with a pig tail. Every drone has different capacity, endurance and range.

The curriculum includes writing programs, coding and building drones from a kit and from a 3D prototype. The students are still getting the hang of the order and fit of rotors and motors and the finesse of piloting.

They are learning physics in the process, working toward taking the Federal Aviation Administration exam, which costs $150. Passing it could launch these teenagers into jobs or self-employment in one of the country’s fastest growing industries.

Drones have become such big business that recreational use is not keeping up. Goldman Sachs forecasts a $100 billion market opportunity for the drone industry by 2020, the lion’s share currently in the military. The greatest growth is in the commercial sector, which is expected to spend $13 billion putting drones to work by 2020, according to the same report.

Drones have been widely used by photographers and filmmakers, for spying and to make military strikes, but their use has expanded into many fields, including the sciences.

UNICEF reported recently that a 1-month-old on a remote island in the South Pacific became the first child to have a vaccine delivered by a drone.

Drones are used in search and rescue operations; for delivery of medical supplies; to carry packages, analyze soil and crop health and survey land; for border security; by railroads to inspect tracks; for racing and nefarious purposes such as chemical attacks.

In April, the students will go to Atlanta to take 3D photos of numerous statues of famous African-Americans at Morehouse and Spelman colleges and Tuskegee University two hours away in Alabama. Their contributions will diversify the database.

“There is very little in the 3D database of important African-American historical figures,” said Citizen Science Lab CEO Andre Samuel.

A drone programmed to take 3D photos circles objects, shooting every few seconds at every angle to produce enough images for the photographer to scan an accurate upload. Uploads go to an open-share database used for research and to make 3D printouts for prototyping.

This trip will be part history lesson, too. One of the teens said he didn’t know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

Ms. Paluti and Ashton Callipare, a senior at Duquesne University, run the sessions each week.

“I got into drones in 2014,” Ms. Paluti said. “I was flying a $30 drone around and started reading more about them. It got more and more interesting.”

She uses her FAA license as a freelancer and is otherwise employed as a tutor in the computer science department at the Community College of Allegheny College.

Marquis Green, a 10th-grader at Urban Pathways Charter School, said drone school was a way of getting out of the house, but he was motivated beyond that. His father and uncle fly drones. He moved his Tello around the classroom like someone driven to get good at it.

At one point, he had it hovering above the table. It drew a bead on the person across from him and began sliding toward her, shifting away at the last moment.

“It knows avoidance,” he said, grinning.

One drone buzzed furiously on the table without moving.

“Check your props [propellers],” Ms. Paluti said to the student. “You may think you got ’em in order but you didn’t.”

Jensynia Baynes, an 11th-grader at Pittsburgh CAPA, said she is curious about the many uses for drones and wants to get her FAA license.

When it was her turn to take her Tello up, she activated it and — pfffffft! — it flipped over.

“When they flip,” Ms. Paluti said, “you have to investigate to see what’s going on. This will teach you patience.”

Originally published February 4, 2019
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

April 18, 2019
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Pittsburgh SAT scores went up in 2016. Can they keep the momentum?

Education

According to the most recent SAT data, none of the city’s public schools are preparing the average student for college.

While some meet the College Board benchmark for reading scores, math standards are higher and apparently out of reach. But trends are pointing in the right direction, led by a big bounce at Perry High School after a decade of declining scores.

According to standards set by the College Board, which develops and administers the SAT college admissions test, there was not a single school in Pittsburgh Public where the average class of student was considered college ready. The most recent data released by the state department of education, for the graduating class of 2016, shows average reading and math scores in the mid-400s out of 800, significantly below the standards.

Four schools — Science and Technology Academy, Obama 6-12, CAPA 6-12, and Allderdice High School — cleared the 480 reading threshold, but none of them quite hit the higher benchmark of 520 in math.

That mid-400 mark, however, represented a major bounce relative to previous years, from a trough in 2012, where averages were below 420 in both categories. Writing scores were even lower, below 400. 2016 was the first year since 2006 with an average math score over 450.

The rebound was most pronounced for two lower performing schools, Westinghouse 6-12 and Perry High School. Westinghouse’s jump looks more like a regression to the mean after a drop for the 2015 class, but Perry’s represents a reversal after a nearly uninterrupted decline from 2004 to 2015. The class of 2016’s average composite SAT score, 1165, was their best since 2012.

Michelle Massie, communications director for A+ Schools, a community advocacy group which releases annual reports on the city’s schools, said in an email, “Teachers and the principal at Perry and a few other PPS schools should be proud of the increases that they are seeing, however, one year does not constitute a trend.”

“While Perry’s score increases are a good thing,” Ms. Massie continued, “We, as a District, still have miles to go for the average score to be in the range that the College Board says is correlated to college readiness”

Representatives from the school district and Perry explained a number of steps they are taking to improve test scores and college readiness.

According to Kashif Henderson, who coordinates K-12 gifted and talented programs for the district, one of the biggest steps they have taken was bringing in representatives from the College Board last November to train teachers in preparing students for the SATs. The training was mostly with English and Social Studies teachers, Mr. Henderson said, and focused on what data schools can use from the Preliminary SATs to help prepare students for the main event.

According to Perry Principal James Cooper, they had a contingent of students included in the training.

“We’re looking at the College Board standards and ACT standards for saying a student is college ready and trying to get all students to that point,” said Mr. Cooper.

Average scores for the class of 2017 are not yet available, but Mr. Cooper said Perry did see an increase in students scoring over 500 in subject tests.

Mr. Henderson expressed excitement for the new SAT format, designed to more closely reflect coursework, which was launched in March 2016.

“The style of writing and style of questions and materials is similar to the what the College Board asks for in AP classes, so there is more alignment in what occurs,” he said.

The College Board also designs and administers Advanced Placement exams.

Ebony Pugh, district spokeswoman, said the number of students enrolled in AP courses has nearly doubled in the district since 2009. Perry, according to A+ Schools data, saw a slight uptick in AP enrollment from 10 percent to 12 percent from 2014 to 2015, the most recent year available.

The district has also placed an emphasis on making sure all students take the Preliminary SATs, said Ms. Pugh.

“We’re ensuring all of our 10th graders take the PSATs. It’s something we pay for and make sure our students do, and they get information that helps them on what their strengths are,” she said.

Both Mr. Henderson and Mr. Cooper said they are using the PSAT data, alongside the state Keystone exams, to determine student strengths and tailor instruction.

Part of Perry’s drop in prior years may have come from its merger with Oliver High School in 2012, which had lower average scores. The school’s best scores were in 2004, so part of the decline precedes the merger.

Another possibility is that the variation was due to the pool of students taking the test: half as many from the class of 2016 took the SAT as from the class of 2015, so it is possible only stronger students chose to sign up for the test.

Starting in March, 2018, said Mr. Henderson, the district will be providing all juniors the test for free, so in the future that data integrity concern will be less relevant.

“It shows the district’s commitment to getting our students college ready. They’re willing to put their money where their mouth is, and it will teach us a lot on where we are at the moment,” said Mr. Cooper.

Even with annual increases in line with the 2016 jump, it would take years for Perry’s average students to reach college-ready benchmarks. Still, Mr. Cooper said, “With students knowing what the targets are, they’re stepping up and saying, ‘We can perform at that level.’ ”

First Published September 11, 2017
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

April 18, 2019
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