BROOKLYN EDUCATION: Week of March 22

Tower of Respect

The meaning of respect was the subject of a recent project at P.S. 170. Students decorated shoeboxes and wrote responses to questions about the meaning of respect and the ways people show respect to one another. Together, the students built a tower with all of the shoeboxes representing the bricks of respect.

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I.S. 187Christa McAuliffe School

Among the results are: Stuyvesant High School – 82 acceptances (24 percent), Brooklyn Tech – 145 acceptances (42 percent), Staten Island Tech – 21 acceptances (six percent), Bronx Science – seven acceptances and Brooklyn Latin – four acceptances.

In addition, four students were accepted into LaGuardia School of Performing Arts and 56 students were accepted into prestigious programs at high schools including Fort Hamilton High School (Honors program), Leon GoldsteinMidwood (Medical Science program and Humanities program) and Edward R. Murrow.

I.S. 187 is a District 20 screened school for approximately 1,000 gifted and talented students within the district. I.S. 187 is divided into three academies: Scientific Research, Business & Law, and Arts & Humanities. For more information, contact Principal Justin Berman at 718-236-3394.

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The students, teachers and parents at P.S. 100the Coney Island School

The Student Council continues to focus on service not only by collecting food items for a food bank, but also by stocking kitchen shelves and serving food to the needy.

Each month, there is a Fun Day and a Give Back Day. The project for February was a candy sale with proceeds going the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition. In addition to the donation, students will assist BARC on adoption day.

The theme of the school’s Respect For All Week was protect and serve. Each day, students met with other students, staff and guests who inspired them to protect each other from bullies and respect each other by doing good deeds.

Family Fun Days have been held on Saturdays and have included activities such as kitchen science and family photography.

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One hundred and ninety-five Bishop Kearney High School students were inducted into the Mater Dei Chapter of the National Honor Society recently. Eighty-two seniors received permanent membership, and 67 juniors and 46 sophomores were granted one-year provisional membership during a solemn ceremony.

Sister Thomasine Stagnitta CSJ, Kearney’s principal, presented each girl with her membership card, and each girl received a rose from Assistant Principal Ms. Geri Martinez.

Ms. Martinez installed the senior officers: Rebecca Tom, who spoke of scholarship, urging the girls to use their talents to make a difference; Lisa Esposito, who stressed the fact that a good leader must be a good listener; Billie Wei, who said that character is a multi-faceted part of each person and is a work in progress; and Alessia Giarracca, who reminded everyone that when we bend down to serve someone in need, we stand taller ourselves.

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Saint Saviour High School has awarded the Michael Gordon Foundation scholarships to six of its freshmen: Olivia Calamia, Amarachi Abakporo, Sarah Mathew, Katherine O’Donnell, Shannon O’Hea and Abigail Russell. The Michael Gordon Foundation underwrites the merit-based scholarships with a $15,000 donation.