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Eliot-Hine’s Junk Art Club Summer Exhibit at Hill Center’s Young Artists Gallery

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Content and photos for this blog post provided by Eliot-Hine MS parent, Suzanne Wells. She also leads the Junk Art Club at Eliot-Hine MS! 

This summer, Eliot-Hine’s Junk Art Club is having an exhibit of its art work at the Hill Center in the Young Artists Gallery.  The exhibit will be on display through the end of August. The Junk Art Club is an afterschool activity that was started two years ago. Club members hope visitors to One Person’s Trash is a Student’s Art will be inspired to find ways to reduce waste, and think about how something might be reused before it is thrown in the trash. The Hill Center is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. The Young Artists Gallery is on the ground floor, east of the main staircase. Eliot-Hine MS will also host a new principal meet and greet at the Hill Center on Monday, 7/30 at 5:30 PM.

Last year, the students created a bottle cap reproduction of a Jacob Lawrence painting from his Migration Series (Panel #58 In the North the African American had more education opportunities). Club members saved bottle caps from home, and scored a big bag of them from the Indian restaurant, Indigo. In the words of 7th grader Malia Weedon,  “I care about the environment, and this is a fun way to help the environment.  Projects tend to be more inventive when you use trash.  When you work with trash you work with what you find, and you have to be creative with how you use it.”

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Eliot-Hine MS students transform bottle caps to a Jacob Lawrence painting from his Migration Series 

The discovery of a cache of Ikea bed slats set out for garbage inspired an “eye project” that was modeled after a community art project done at North Park University in Chicago. Students paired up to paint each other’s eyes on the slats, creating mini-portraits. Sixth grader Annika Crawford observed: “I decided to be in the Junk Art Club because I like art.  Art is my imagination.  I take creations from my mind, and put them on paper.  The eye project was great because you got to look at different people, and draw them the way you see them.”

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Example of Eliot-Hine MS student’s eye painting on re-purposed bed slats

Yet another use of found materials is the collection of painted hubcaps, originally gleaned from gutters and sidewalks on Capitol Hill. Rust-Oleum spray paint was used as a base coat on the hubcaps, and the students painted with a liquid metal acrylic paint on top of the base coat.

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Re-purposed hub caps painted by Eliot-Hine MS students
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Eliot-Hine MS student artists at work! 

Want to learn more about Eliot-Hine’s Junk Art Club? Check out these previous posts:

Summer Principal Magrino Meet & Greets for Eliot-Hine MS!

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Happy summer! Here are four opportunities you can meet the new Eliot-Hine Principal, Marlene Magrino. You can check out her bio on the DCPS website here.

  1. Walking in the Capitol Hill 4th of July parade with her and Eliot-Hine MS
  2. July 12th, 7:45 – 9 AM: Principal Meet & Greet at Pretzel Bakery
  3. July 17th, 6 PM: Principal Meet & Greet at Solid State Bookstores on H Street
  4. July 30th, 5:30 PM: Principal Meet & Greet and Junk Art Club Art Exhibit at Hill Center

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If you have any questions about these events, please contact Ophelia.Morgan@dc.gov or call the Eliot-Hine MS front office at (202) 939-5380. 

New SY18-19 Principal Announcement: Marlene Magrino for Eliot-Hine MS

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Today, Marlene Magrino was named the new Eliot-Hine MS principal for SY18-19. She was chosen after a panel of staff, parents, and community members gathered to interview candidates and provide feedback on the process. View the full appointment letter here. 

Principal Magrino comes with experience from teaching at Washington Middle School for Girls, serving many roles including Assistant Principal at DC Preparatory Academy, and founding Monument Academy Public Charter School (a weekday boarding school serving students who have had or might have contact with the foster care system).

We will be reaching out soon with opportunities to meet Principal Magrino this summer and to hear about her vision for Eliot-Hine MS!

Calling for Nominations to officially name ‘New North Middle School’

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The period to submit nominations opened on June 14 and ended on September 7. Please stay tuned to our blog for the next round of community input later this fall. 

The DCPS school planning team is asking for the public to submit nominations to officially name “New North MS” that will open on the campus of Coolidge High School for the 2019 – 2020 academic school year.  This public and community driven process is driven by the DCPS School Naming Policy

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Your nomination may be based on a person or a place. While there are general requirements for all nominations, one based on an individual has additional and more specific requirements. Please see the requirements below but also please take time to review the full DCPS School Naming Policy

General Requirements for all nominations
All names, whether they are based on a person or a place, must meet the following general requirements:

  • The name symbolizes a contribution to society, including contributions made to the local school community
  • The name will lend prestige and status to an institution of learning
  • The name represents the DCPS mission, vision, and values.

Specific Requirements for nominations based on a person
All names based on a person must be the following requirements:

  • The individual must not be a living person
  • The individual must have been deceased for at least two (2) years; and
  • Only the individual’s given name as well as their surname may be used

(e.g. “Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School” rather than “Dunbar High School”)

 

Eliot-Hine’s International Baccalaureate Showcase

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Blog content and photos provided by Ms. Bess Davis, Eliot-Hine’s IB Coordinator. You can email her to learn more at Bess.Davis@dc.gov 

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This school-year, DCPS Global Education partnered with DCPS’s six International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools to recognize students and families at the first annual IB Showcase. Eliot-Hine MS is one of two DCPS IB middle schools in the city. At this recent IB showcase, EH students and families viewed projects through a gallery walk and voted on their favorite IB work products. EH students’ projects ranged from science fair projects, community projects, art, and student writing. 

In addition to supporting event set-up and clean-up, Eliot-Hine students were also present to share their Community Projects and receive recognition on stage. Each school honored students with Learner Profile awards and Outstanding IB Assignment awards. Parents and community members were also honored with an Outstanding Program Advocate Award. All in all, it was an exciting night to celebrate DCPS’s IB World Schools! 

To learn more about Eliot-Hine’s IB Middle Years Programme, check out these former posts:

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Spring 2018: Stevens Project Call Update

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For the final Stevens CWG meeting, DCPS hosted two calls to share an update on the Thaddeus Stevens building, engage the community on opportunities for connections within the area, and discuss the planning process moving forward. With a citywide approach, DCPS will continue planning towards goals of increasing access to quality ECE seats, while also focusing on new opportunities to expand citywide capture and build a diverse school community.

View the full presentation here 

Here are some key components of this Thaddeus Stevens project:

  • Stevens ECE Center will include DCPS pre-kindergarten programming and 0-3 infant and toddler programming through partnership.
  • The DCPS ECE program will be open to applicants citywide and will not have a boundary.
  • Opportunity to utilize intentional design and enrollment approach to build SES and ability-diverse school community.
  • We are tracking towards an August 2020 opening date.

We will continue to blog updates here and you can also follow along on the DCPS Facilities Modernization site, on the Thaddeus Stevens tab.

 

Final Eliot-Hine Modernization Meeting of the School Year!

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Join DCPS Facilities Team as they present the latest on Eliot-Hine’s modernization project.  They will cover design developments, summer construction plans, and project timeline. This is the final modernization meeting for this school year.

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Next Eliot-Hine School Improvement Team Meeting, 5/23: Schematic Designs & Feedback Survey!

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Check out the presentation from Eliot-Hine’s 5/15/2018 School Improvement Team (SIT) meeting. It includes details on the project schedule (see below), design process, summer plans, and schematic designs. The presentation is also full of draft mock renderings! Eliot-Hine MS community members can provide feedback via this survey . 

Survey responses will be used to guide the next meeting: “Schematic Design – Feedback Review” SIT meeting on Wednesday, May 23rd- 4:30 PM. Full modernization project details for Eliot-Hine are on this Facilities modernization page.

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SY18-19 Eliot-Hine New Principal Panel

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Recently Principal Young shared this announcement with the Eliot-Hine community. Eliot-Hine MS is starting their search for a new principal for School Year 2018-2019. A principal panel comprised of Eliot-Hine staff, current parents, feeder school parents, and community members will determine questions and interview principal candidates starting next week.

This survey was created to gather input on strategic planning for the upcoming school year at Eliot-Hine. Please share your thoughts on what is most important for the continued progress of our community and the selection of the new principal. If you have any questions, please reach out to Eliot-Hine’s Director of Strategy & Logistics, Ophelia.Morgan@dc.gov.

 

 

 

One Pagers for Parents & Families about the opening of New North MS and the redesign of Coolidge HS

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The DCPS School Planning team has made some one pagers for parents & families about the opening of the new Ward 4 middle school that will serve northern ward 4 beginning in school year 2019 – 2020. They also feature information about the phased opening of the school as well as the modernization and redesign happening at Coolidge HS.

Brightwood Education Campus
English, Español, Francais, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese),
አማርኛ,(Amharic), 中文 (Chinese)

LaSalle – Backus Education Campus
English, Español, Français, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese),
አማርኛ (Amharic),中文 (Chinese)

Takoma Education Campus
English, Español, Francais, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese),
አማርኛ (Amharic),中文 (Chinese)

Whittier Education Campus
English, Español, Francais, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese),
አማርኛ (Amharic),中文 (Chinese)