Unsung Heroes recognized by CRLS and FOCRLS

There was a great story in the Cambridge Chronicle recently about the unsung heroes of CRLS. To read about these terrific students, click here
[ http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/education/x1089265688/-Unsung-Heroes-are-quietly-recognized-at-Cambridge-Rindge-and-Latin ]

“Friends of CRLS” Announces 2010 Faculty Grant Awards

Friends Of CRLS (FOCRLS) is proud to announce the recipients of its Fourth Annual Faculty Grants program. The following CRLS faculty and staff received FOCRLS Faculty Grants:

Greta Hardina, for her proposal “CRLS Parent Ambassadors”
Juan Casillas, for his proposal “International Community Service with Dominican Republic”
Maria Giacchino and Ramazan Nigdelioglu, for their proposal “CRLS Trip to Turkey”
Janet O’Reilly and Yen Tieu, for their proposal “Getting Smarter! Incorporating Live Document Imaging Into the Classroom”
Angelica Allende Brisk, for her proposal “YVC Online! Summer 2010″
Jennifer McConnell, for her proposal “Clickers in the World Language Classroom: An Active Learning Approach”
Tobe Stomberg, for her proposal “Compost Club Educator T-Shirts”
Jeff Gaglione, for his proposal “Document Projectors”
Kristin Knowlton, Peter Mili, and Cale Moore, for their proposal “Math Applause”
Barbara Weaver, for her proposal “Part #2 CRLS History Club Research/Advocacy Field Trip to Washington DC”
Catherine Thomas, for her proposal “Slow Food Movement: A Food Revelation”

Friends of CRLS is a 501(c)3 tax-deductible non-profit public charity founded by two parents in January 2007. The group’s mission is to raise private funds from within the Cambridge community to support and enrich the academic and social development programs at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Fore more info on the awards or FOCRLS, click here: www.cpsd.us/crls/News/index.html#FOCRLS10

Great news about the M.L. King School

• M.L. King seventh grade student Asad Lakhani of Cambridge has been named a semifinalist in the National Geographic Society-sponsored 2010 Massachusetts Geographic Bee. He will compete at Worcester State College on Friday, April 9.

• M.L. King third grade teacher, Kelly Langan, has been nominated as one of the 10 semifinalists for Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

• A group of M.L. King 8th graders with faculty chaperones leave the morning of Friday, April 9 for a week-long trip to Hangzhou, China. They will spend time at a school in Hangzhou as well as visit the city of Shanghai. This is the fourth year that M.L. King students have traveled to China.