Dleta Sweat
NJPCSA Celebrates National Teacher Appreciation Week Honoring Public School Teachers in New Jersey. Dleta Sweat, Advocate for Self Contained and Social Emotional Learning/ Character Development Educator, at Great Oaks Downtown
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1,000 Winter Coats Handed Out to Newark Residents at South Ward Promise Neighborhood Annual Event
About 1,000 coats were distributed to Newark residents in the South Ward this month as winter kicks into high gear and temperatures continue to drop. The coats were distributed by officials
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Great Oaks Legacy Charter School Strives to Get More Youth Inoculated, Hosts COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics
Moments before Seyfunmi Onaiyekan, a fifth-grade student at Great Oaks Legacy Charter School, rolled up his sleeve to get his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, he admitted he
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Where can children under 12 get a COVID vaccine in Newark? Here are 7 sites.
At least seven locations in Newark began offering the pediatric COVID vaccine this week for children as young as 5 and city schools worked to set up vaccination events, steps
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Nearly 100% of Staff at This Newark Charter School Have Received a COVID-19 Vaccine
Nearly eight months after Great Oaks Legacy Charter School in Newark brokered efforts to get its educators and support staff vaccinated from COVID-19, the school administration on Friday announced that nearly all
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An Educator’s View: How My Newark Charter School Uses the Power of Tutoring — and the Power of Relationships — to Achieve Academic Recovery for All
Over the last 18 months, the pandemic has exacerbated achievement gaps for students who were already falling behind before COVID-19 arrived. What happens now is critical for ensuring that schools don’t
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Op-Ed: New educational strategies that will outlast the pandemic
Two educators outline ‘new approaches that may better meet the needs of students, families and teachers’ The return to classrooms in fall 2021 will once again be to a school
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‘Left in the dark’: Newark schools won’t share COVID data with families and teachers
School had been in session less than a week when first graders at McKinley Elementary School were sent home. Someone in their classroom had tested positive for COVID. They were
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