High School Drama Update

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ICE High School Drama has partnered with Learning Spring School to create short plays based on classic Fairytales. 

Students have already begun to participate in workshops where they improvise, share, and provide feedback to collectively create their scripts.

Their collaboration titled Two Schools, One Journey, Many Tales: An Integrated Drama Exploration has recently been accepted into the NYU Forum on Educational Theater NYU EdTheatre Schedule.

Students will be performing snippets of their work and discussing their process with artists and educators from all over the globe.  Look out for more details to come!

Parent Action/Education Advocacy Committee

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If you haven't already joined the letter campaign advocating for a new Chancellor NOT in the mold of former Chancellor Merryl Tisch, please consider spending a minute on this incredible opportunity to ask for change by clicking here for the letter supporting Betty Rosa.

And if you are concerned about class size and overcrowding at schools and have another minute, consider this letter campaign, too!

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Kemala Karmen

Letter from Pete re: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Important New Book

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I hope all is well with everybody.  I am writing today as I think about how to develop and improve our ability to engage in powerful and transformative discussion in and outside of school.  This year parents and teachers separately have shared their thinking about adolescent sexuality, students are discussing sexual harassment and gender identity, and now a small group of teachers have started to identify our best practices for discussing race and racism, both of which appear in our curriculum at nearly every age level.

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