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Your HamtramckPublic School
Board Members
Dennis LukasTreasurer
Salah HadwanSecretary
Showkat ChowdhuryTrustee
Magdalena SrodekPresident
Moortadha ObaidTrustee
Jihan Aiyash Trustee
Evan MajorVice President
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By Marc Wilkinson,Technology Coordinator
The School District ofthe City of HamtramckTechnology Departmentis planning summer im-provements to our net-work.
New fiber optics willbe added to the TauBeta School that will in-crease speed and relia-bility. We will bereplacing lines that pro-vide very poor speedsfor data communica-tions.
Tau Beta School willalso be receiving a newwireless access pointsystem that will improvewireless speeds for thestudents’ Chrome-books.
Hamtramck Technol-ogy also plans to enactour fiber build and fibermaintenance agree-ment and inspect everyinch of our fiber opticcabling and making nec-essary repairs for all thebuildings.
We received federalfunding, and are in theprocess of schedulingthe installation of high-
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By Nahim MiahWrapping up her final
year of high school with anastounding cumulativegrade point average of4.1912, ValedictorianPriyanka Laskar is a soundembodiment of the ideathat due diligence and pa-tience will result in a grandpayoff -- no matter whereyou come from or whereyou started.
Her leadership skills andstrong sense of identityleave a trail for all of thosebehind her to follow.
Priyanka knows morethan anyone that it took along time to get where sheis today. Her awe-inspiringacademic, personal, andextracurricular achieve-ments didn’t come with asnap of her fingers.
She’s had to do a littlebit of soul searching to be-come one of Hamtramck
High School’s greatest.Priyanka immigrated
from Bangladesh to Ham-tramck when she was just5 years old. She never at-tended preschool orkindergarten, and to bethrown into an environ-ment so foreign to whatshe was used to -- at sucha young age -- was a hur-dle, to say the least.
She took ESL classeswhen she enrolled at Dick-inson East Elementary,and it took a great deal oftime to find focus anddrive.
She wanted to go home.Nothing made sense here:the language, the people,the culture.
At one point, the Stateof Michigan sent her par-ents letters of her failureto be present at schooland demanded she at-tend. The peering, judging
eyes of a select fewaround her didn’t help ei-ther. They compared her tothose her age and teasedher for the little she hadaccomplished.
Nevertheless, she even-tually realized that sittingby, waiting for somethingthat would probably nevercome was a waste of time.
She wanted to grow andmake the best of her op-portunities in America.She wanted those sameeyes to look at her againwith the same intention,only to shield them at thesight of her radiance.
After endlessly dedicat-ing time to learn to readand write in English, allwhile staying in contactwith her Hindu heritage,Priyanka graduated fromKosciuszko Middle Schooland went on to Ham-
By Thomas Niczay As the end of June ap-
proaches, and my retire-ment draws near, pleaseknow that it has beenboth an honor and a priv-ilege to work in Ham-tramck Public Schools for41 years, the last 11 ofthose as Superintendent.
Having been acceptedby the school communityas well as the communityat large for over fourdecades as a subteacher, teacher, principaland finally as superin-tendent, humbles me.
I have been extremelyfortunate to have a greatteam working with me inevery job classification Ihave held.
I have also been fortu-nate enough to haveworked with excellentBoard Members over theyears.
Public School Boards ofEducation are the gover-nance body that is thebackbone of every com-munity. The time and ef-fort put in by BoardMembers is substantialcompared to the minimalmonthly stipend they re-
Valedictorian: Priyanka LaskarSalutatorian: Amila Hatibovic
Priyanka Laskar
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tramck High School. She began to challenge
herself in ways that even-tually cemented a realiza-tion of her love foreducation and the possi-bilities it could offer.
Taking 12 honors, fourAP, and two dual enroll-ment courses over thecourse of four years issomething not many couldsay they have done suc-cessfully, yet alone at-tempt.
Priyanka has also beeninvolved in a seeminglyendless amount of ex-tracurriculars, inside ofHamtramck High Schooland out. As the Presidentof LEAP, she’s guided stu-dents interested in pro-tecting the Earth andeducating the communityon the importance ofbeing environmentallyaware.
In FIRST Robotics, she’sled a group of students tocraft essays that show-case Team 123 in the bestlight possible. She is inher fourth year on StudentCouncil, second year inthe National Honor Societyand Be a Good NeighborProject, and third year inthe Princess Project.
These clubs’ membersand her close friendswould agree that theywouldn’t make do withouther.
Valedictorian PriyankaLaskar has faced count-less hurdles, well beforereaching high school.
She knows more thanmost that realistic doesn’tmean “easily achievable”.She’s decided to matricu-late to Wayne State Univer-sity where she intends tostudy pre-medicine. Nomatter what path Priyankaends up taking, she’s be-come truly an inspirationto everyone. She’ll neverstop breaking barriers,even if she’s created themherself.
Salutatorian: Amila Hatibovic
With an exceptional cu-mulative grade point aver-age of 4.1814,Salutatorian Amila Hati-bovic occupies a seat inHHS Graduating Class of2019 that is unlike anyother.
Her vibrant personalityand infectious laughterhave made her into some-one that just about every-one wants to be near. Herunmatched academic andextracurricular achieve-ments, coupled with herambition and resourceful-ness, have shaped herinto a student with count-less successes; someonethat is undoubtedly de-serving of this honor.
Facing challengeswith confidence and gracehas always been a spe-cialty of Amila’s.
She’s also never beenafraid to look for them; aquick glance at her aca-demic transcript wouldprove that. Amila took 13
Honors, four AP, and twoDual Enrollment classes.
Amila has slowly butsteadily built a depth ofknowledge that could onlybe achieved by hard workand a desire to overcomehurdles that she faced.
Many of her closefriends might argue thatAmila’s academic excel-lence is matched only byher myriad pursuits andextracurriculars that she’sbeen involved in at ourhigh school and in ourcommunity.
As the Vice President ofLEAP, Amila was been ableto educate the school andcommunity on being envi-ronmentally aware. Beingpart of a group that wastruly student-led, unguidedby an outside organizationor school teacher’s views,was very challenging.
But Amila faced it head-on. Being a third-yearmember and two-year ex-ecutive board member ofthe Princess Project hasmade her irreplaceable tothe organization.
Most, if not all mem-bers, would agree that theclub’s mission to provide acomfortable and safespace for religious stu-dents to let loose wouldn’tcome to fruition withouther leadership.
She’s reflected thoseskills in many of her otherclubs and activities: twoyears in FIRST Robotics,four years in StudentCouncil (one being an e-
board member), two in theNational Honor Society,and two in the Be a GoodNeighbor Project.
With her indomitablespirit and incredible workethic, she helped theseclubs grow and evolve, andshe’s also learned quite afew things about herself.
Salutatorian Amila Hati-bovic, whether she first de-cided to or not, has left aphenomenal mark in Ham-tramck High School’s his-tory.
She will be matriculatingto Wayne State University,where she intends tostudy pre-medicine.
She’s understandably alittle perplexed by thesheer career possibilitiesmedicine has to offer, butshe knows that her pas-sion lies in that realm.
Finding that exact field isjust another challengeAmila will surely over-come.
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ceive. All past and present
Board Members deservethe respect and gratitudeof all for taking on theseresponsibilities.
Every single employeeis considered to be a valu-able member of the teamincluding administrators,teachers, parapros, secre-taries, etc., whether full orpart-time, union or non-union.
Members of the teamhave changed over theyears, which is to be ex-pected. But like the city it-self where people comeand go, with its core oflong-term Hamtramck res-idents, there is also acore of long-term employ-ees in Hamtramck PublicSchools.
Stability is absolutelynecessary in any organi-zation. Change is con-stant and cities andschool districts that havestable foundations arebetter able to thrive andhandle that change.
Places like Hamtramck,that are able to adapt tochange, are usually greatplaces to live and attendschool. I am confidentthat the future of Ham-tramck Public Schoolsand the City of Ham-tramck is a bright one.
Hamtramck will foreverbe my home and you willcontinue to see me intown – a lot. As always:Start here, Stay here andSucceed here.
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By Kristen Hurt, PrincipalThere are many students
excelling at Hamtramck’sHorizon High School.
Yet, two students,Alanood Alduis and IssaGhareeb, rank at the top ofthe class of 2019.
Alanood, class valedicto-rian, holds a GPA of 4.0.
Issa, class salutatorian,is finishing strong with a3.9.
The staff and studentsare quite proud of thesetwo as they have workedhard these past few years.
Alanood and Issa cameto Hamtramck in the sum-mer 2016 from Yemen.They both picked up theEnglish language quicklyand often helped their fel-
low classmates both withacademic content and lan-guage skills.
They are true leaders inthe school!
Issa will be attendingWayne County CommunityCollege in the fall and willtransfer to Wayne StateUniversity to pursue a de-gree in mechanical engi-neering.
He intends to continueto work full time as a stockclerk while attending col-lege. This is one of themany aspects that makesIssa’s accomplishmentsso special.
He has worked full timewhile attending highschool and has near per-fect attendance! In his
spare time, he likes to playsoccer and go to the gym.
Alanood will also be at-tending Wayne CountyCommunity College in thefall and plans to transfer toWayne State University topursue her dream of be-coming a heart surgeon.
Alanood has been inter-ested in the medical fieldsince she was a young girl.In her spare time, she likesspending time with herfamily and loves to readnon-fiction books.
We are all so proud ofthese two top stars andare eager to hear abouttheir future accomplish-ments!
Go Cosmos!
Horizon High School’s topstudents shoot for the stars
Start Here, Stay Here, Succeed Here
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Meet the 2019 graduates of Horizon High
Abrhaim Alhalemi Afjol Uddin Ali Almansob Arius Tarver
Aseel Obad Baleeq Obaid Brianna Jones Destiny Jones
Falah Obeid Fares Kassem Hasib Mahmud Hisham Abdullah
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By Colleen StevensThe Early Childhood Ele-
mentary School providesquality education forpreschoolers through sec-ond graders.
The school is proud tosay that they have a high-quality Great Start Readi-ness Preschool Programin their building for 4-year-olds.
The program has a four-star rating from The Michi-gan Department ofEducation.
March was ReadingMonth and it was a busyone.
There was Read-A-ShirtDay, Round Robin Read-ing and Guest ReaderDay.
The school was happyto have district staff visit,Mr. Dennis Lukas (aschool board member),and local firefighters(among others) read tothe students.
This year’s surpriseguest was Mike Morsefrom the Mike Morse LawFirm, who came with hisdaughter.
Everyone took time outof their busy schedules toread to the students. Itwas much appreciated.
The Early Childhood Ele-mentary has focused a loton science this year.
The students went toSchoolcraft College sev-eral times for hands-onscience activities. In addi-tion, they explored plants,magnets, force and mo-tion and numerous otherscientific topics withJupiter Jaye from High-Touch/HighTech Science.
These activities gavethe students lots to talkand write about.
One of the favorite activ-ities each year is the visitto The Detroit Institute ofArts.
After the visit, the stu-dents returned to school,wrote about their experi-ence and created art inthe style of a particularartist.
The school had an artshow in conjunction witha concert featuring thekindergarten, first gradeand second graders. Artfrom the entire schoolwas on display before andafter the concert.
The Early Childhood Ele-mentary is definitely agreat place to be!
Early childhood: Students focused on science and art at Early Childhood Elementary School
By Nabil Nagi, PrincipalTau Beta School is a
kindergarten to 8th gradeschool that is dedicated inproviding the very best ed-ucation for all students.
Teachers have a dedica-tion to their students andit shows. Tau Beta Schoolwas officially opened inJanuary of 2018 and therewere approximately 150students who attendedwhen Tau Beta firstopened its doors.
The school now servicesmore than 270 students.
The school has a richhistory and distinct look.Tau Beta School is now of-ficially a Michigan Histori-cal Site. The buildingstarted as the Tau BetaCommunity House, andthen several other schoolswere at the building beforeit became a Tau BetaSchool in 2018.
Tau Beta is ensuring ourstudents are well equippedfor the present and futurein technology.
We are a one-to-oneschool -- meaning thatevery child in the schoolhas an assigned laptop touse daily.
Kindergarten through
6th grade classes went onfield trips to SchoolcraftCollege several times forhands-on science activitiesto increase their engage-ment in science education.
The Scholastic Book Fairtook place in our libraryfrom April 29 – May 3.
We reached our goal of$1,500!
It was a very successfulevent for it being our firstbook fair at Tau Beta.
We held the event afterschool one day for familiesand friends to buy booksand meet Clifford the BigRed Dog, Tau Beta Tiger,and Tyrannosaurus Rex.
We had many wonderfulguests throughout theyear!
Guests came to ourschool as speakers andreaders. Our guests wereFire Chief Danny Hagen,Fire Marshall Bill Diamond,and several HamtramckFirefighters.
Hamtramck Drug FreeCommunity Coalition mem-bers Virginia Skrzyniarz,Geneva Rivera, MalgosiaTulecki, Lisa Harper, DylanSiwicki, Robin Koyl, andFrancis Foote came duringparent and teacher confer-
ences and our openhouse.
Our teachers and stu-dents went on educationalfield trips through the aca-demic year. Music stu-dents went with Ms. Papasto Grosse Pointe South towatch the Beauty and theBeast Musical.
Students also went onfield trips to Henry FordMuseum, Detroit HistoricalMuseum, and the DetroitInstitute of Arts.
Tau Beta School and theHamtramck Drug FreeCommunity Coalition cre-ated an amazing partner-ship that includededucating our scholarsand their families aboutmany aspects of drug pre-vention, being safe, andhealthy.
Drug Free Coalitionmembers came to read toall of our classes duringMarch is Reading Month.Tau Beta also held aHealth Hike Kick-Off the Fri-day before the district’sHealth Hike.
We had a very excitingfirst full academic year atTau Beta! Go Tigers!
In one year, Tau Beta Schoolexperienced huge growth
By Shalika RobieThe 2018-2019 school
year has been yet anotherbusy year full of new ad-ventures for the Ham-tramck Public SchoolsSpecial Services Depart-ment.
We have had a few newadditions to the depart-ment by way of new teach-ers at Dickinson WestElementary and Ham-tramck High School, aswell as a new school psy-chologists and parapro-fessionals at variousbuildings.
All of them did an awe-some job of adjusting tothe newness of Ham-tramck Public Schools.
The Special ServicesDepartment has beenworking more collabora-
tively this year with theCurriculum, English Lan-guage Learners and PupilServices departments tobecome a more cohesiveteam for the forwardmovement of all studentsin the HPS district.
As a result, we havecombined efforts district-wide to further implementPBIS (Positive BehavioralInterventions and Sup-ports) at all schools.
PBIS is a proactive ap-proach based on a three-tiered model of preventionand intervention aimed atcreating safe and effec-tive schools.
Emphasis is placed onteaching and reinforcingimportant social skillsand data-based problemsolving to address exist-
ing behavior concerns. A PBIS district leader-
ship team was formedduring the 2016-17school year and has beengetting stronger with eachpassing school year.
The team consists ofgeneral and special edu-cators working together tostrengthen relationshipsand practices amongstaff, students and thecommunity!
The PBIS efforts com-bined with the MTSS(Multi-Tiered System ofSupports) system is guid-ing Hamtramck PublicSchools to be a more in-tentional district as it re-lates to the achievementand behavioral needs ofall learners.
Special services expanded programs toenrich more students
By D’Juana Jackson, Coordinator
The Hamtramck Recre-ation Department offers avariety of fun activities forthe entire family from theyoungest child to the old-est child at heart. Our pro-gramming goes beyondjust sports related pro-grams.
We offer sports, arts,and special events andthe 2018-2019 year wasgreat!
We started the year offstrong with our bi-annualColors of Summer Fire-works at Keyworth Sta-dium!
The autumn season isalways the busiest withevents and activities.Cider and donuts at theFall Harvest, haunted
houses and costume con-tests at the HalloweenBoo Bash and multiplefamily and senior trips.
After the new year, wejumped right into our win-ter season with the JuniorBasketball League wherethe Dickinson West stu-dents took home thechampionship again!
From there we hostedthe Daddy DaughterBrunch, new this year, andthe Easter Egg Scramble,and coming up we’ll bringthis year to a close withour new event, Inflate-a-Thon at Pulaski, and ourannual trip to Cedar Point.
Not to mention the Fit-ness Center at the Com-munity Center for adultsis always a great place toworkout or take a class in
anything from cardio orbelly dancing.
We are looking forwardto the summer monthswhen the adult sportsleagues kick off. Forsome friendly competi-tion, adults can joinleagues in softball andkickball.
Our active Seniors pro-gram offers fitness,leisure and learning --withmonthly trips, specialclasses, and events.
We encourage you toparticipate in all we haveto offer. A world of friends,fun, and fitness awaitsjust outside your door. Wehope to see you this sum-mer and thank you for agreat year!
Recreation program offeredsomething for everyone
By Myron Miller, PrincipalI cannot be prouder of
my team at Holbrook. They’ve been consistent
in taking care of each andevery Holbrook Hawkeach and every day.
The job is tough, but wecontinue to push for stu-dent success. Here aresome thoughts of our2018-2019 school year:
Each year, the teachersat Holbrook anxiouslyawait for the arrival oftheir students. Our teach-ers are usually just as ex-
cited about the schoolyear as our students arewith a different class fullof jubilant students, andthe new strategies theyuse to prepare their stu-dents for success.
We’ve been fortunate tohave both Wayne CountyRESA Consultants, READ180 Consulting staff, andothers within and outsideour district to support in-struction, student engage-ment, and learning.
Last year, we madegains on our state as-
sessment, M-STEP. Thisaccomplishment couldnot have occurred withoutthe hard work and dedica-tion of our students, staffand families.
We, as a team at Hol-brook continue to make adifference in every Hol-brook Hawks education.
Come on in and visit ourbusy, vibrant learning en-vironment at Holbrook.
The Palace on Aliceawaits you!
Students’ success is a team effortat Holbrook Elementary School
Mike Morse, Attorney, read to ECE students
Hamtramck Fire Chief, Danny Hagen reading to ECEstudents
Second grade teacher, Mr. Helminiak, reading to hisstudents
Top: Live reindeer visitfrom Carousel Acres.Left: More hands-on sci-ence with Jupiter Jaye.Below: Dumpster Doug(Doug Scheer AssemblyShows) on Earth day,talking about recyclingand pollution
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Meet the 2019 graduates of Hamtramck High
Meet the 2019 graduates of Horizon High
Basem Abbas Ashraf Ahmed Ebad Ahmed Fuzul Ahmed Nasim Ahmed Nouradein Ahmed Shahin Ahmed Shobi Ahmed
Al-Mutasim Ballh Aiyash Tania Akhter Hamida Akter Shabina Akther Arkan Al-Ghazali Yahya Al-Hubaishi Mohamed Al-Kuhlani Saleh Alasad
Omar Albadani Yaser Aldouais Ezadeen Alfakeeh Abdollah Alfareh Amerah Algahim Emad Algehaim Fakri Alghazali Maeen Algofi
Omar Alhadad Layla “Alhalemi,” Waseem Alhlimi Ryadh Alhussein Abobakr Ali Ahmed Ali Bakil Ali Basem Ali
Hamdi Ali Ismail Ali Kashif Ali Mahbub Ali Wesam Ali Abdulrahman Aljahim Ammar Aljamali Izaldeen Aljamali
Temille Allen Tondra Allen Ahmed Almadrahi Mohammed Almattery Yusif Almuwallad Imran Alomari Noah Alpara Emaad Alqosimi
Bashar Alqusaimi Ezzeddine Alraimi Mohamed Alrobaiey Miriam Alrohani Umran Alsabahi Hamood Alsahari Anbarah Alsaidi
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Isam Abdullah Issa Ghareeb Jamal Alzamzami Jesse Lee Joshua Williams Juli Begum Khalid Salah Mohamed Hizam
Mohammed Musaid Mosammat Akter Nadar Mohamed Noah Price-Stoked Omar Obeid Rahim Uddin Rayid Shamakh Sadia Fahl
Shamsia Khanom Shelby Stubbs Ta’Tyana Davis Terenaia Lais Thomas Teeple Trevon Winston Yousra Choudhury
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Meet the 2019 graduates of Hamtramck High
Yunas Alsayyadi Ya’Qoob Alwageeh Tauhida Anzum Eldin Arifovic Hany Ashabi Hassan Ashaif Sharafadin Ashubi Hesham Assarawie
Elmin Atic Husain Aymen Kristian Baker Mirela Baltic Nedim Basic Tarsha Baynham Dina Begum Husnaara Begum
Mahnaz Begum Musammat Begum Nayema Begum Shuma Begum Thaniya Begum Gabrielle Belcher DeMarco Bomar Diago Brooks
Brianna Brown Zacchaeus Brown Jaylin Caldwell Maximilian Chabowski Saadman Choudhury Tahmida Choudhury Abdus Chowdhury Ahmed Chowdhury
Fahima Chowdhury Sadia Chowdhury Sujan Chowdhury Nusrat Chuwdhury Muhamed Coragic Patryk Czubek Waseem Dagenah Mukta Das
Deb Diganto Jordan Dicus Ty’Rice Ford Brianna Frame Basher Ghaleb Allaw Ghalib Amer Gunic Rodjay Harris
Jahidul Hasan Kazi Hasan Tanjim Hasan Adnan Hassan Haroon Hassan Muad Hassan Amila Hatibovic Fahd Hezam
Shayma Howaig Laronda Hubbard Asmahan Hussain Thasmina Hussain Farhan Ifran Bismah Imran Terence Ireland Mahidul Islam
MD Islam Sayma Islam Tahera Islam Bakir Islamovic Jerry Jackson Tyra Jackson Elma Jahaj Nabeha Jawany
Ahmed Jobeh Israth Johan Mianna Jordan Jubeda Juby Faizah Juhi Martin Juncaj Emad Kaid Ermina Karasuljlic
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Esam Kasem Mjad Kassem Kother Kassim Nayem Khan Zamia Khan Aklema Khanom Filloreta Kllokoqi Khadeejah Laskar
Priyanka Laskar Amra Lekic Tierra Lewis Mashia Lima Jamar Luster Marcel Mackey Syeda Mahfuj Mah- jabin Kazi
Niel Malahi Nahim Miah Thanvir Miah Sharmin Miniag Armando Mitaj Benjamin Mitchell Abdo Mohamed Thair Mohamed
Wajdi Mosleh Ghadah Mozeb Aminul Mukith Abid Munsif Fahad Murshed Saif Musleh Tahmid Mustafa Abdulbari Nagi
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The Board of Education of the School District of the City of Hamtramck will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, June 26, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the Administration Building, 3201 Roosevelt Street, to review and consider the school district’s 2019-2020 proposed budget. The property tax millage rate proposed to be levied to support the proposed budget will be a subject of this hearing. Copies of the 2019-2020 Proposed Budget will be available for examination in the Superintendent of Schools Office, 3201 Roosevelt, from 8:00 a.m. June 25, 2019, until the time of the Public Hearing. Salah Hadwan, Secretary Hamtramck Board of Education
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By Nuo Ivezaj, PrincipalStudents from
Kosciuszko Middle Schoolparticipated in the Reli-gious Diversity Journeys(RDJ) field trip programsponsored by the Inter-Faith Leadership Council ofMetropolitan Detroitthroughout the 2018-2019school year.
The students, 7thgraders enrolled in theKMS English LanguageLearners program, visitedvarious houses of worshipacross metropolitan De-troit to learn about otherfaiths, traditions, and cul-tures.
Students learned aboutJudaism at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park; Christianityat First PresbyterianChurch in Birmingham;Islam at the Muslim UnityCenter in Bloomfield Hills;Sikhism at the Sikh Soci-ety of Michigan in SterlingHeights; and Hinduism atthe Sri VenkateswaraHindu Temple in Novi.
The program ended withan exploration of faith inart at the Detroit Instituteof Arts.
Volunteers at all of thehouses of worship wel-comed students, sharedtheir faith, and even pre-
pared traditional meals. Highlights for the KMS
students included partici-pating in a traditional wed-ding ceremony at TempleEmanu-El, and beingdressed in saris and tryingon turbans at the Sikh So-ciety.
According to WendyGamer who directs the RDJprogram, the InterFaithLeadership Council of Met-ropolitan Detroit createdthe program in the wake ofthe 9-11 attacks as a wayof promoting religious tol-erance and understandingthroughout SoutheastMichigan.
Program enlightened KMS studentsabout the world’s religions
By Jamie JankowskiMTSS stands for Multi-
Tiered System of Support. Hamtramck Public
Schools adopted MTSSas an approach to look ateach child as a wholethree years ago.
Upon the adoption ofthis system a committeewas formed including dis-trict level administration,teachers, social workers,and psychologists acrossthe district.
The team studied thecurrent approaches to un-derstanding academicand non-academic effectson student learning andsought to develop a sys-tem that worked for Ham-tramck.
This school year, thedistrict created a coach-ing position to help refineour district process ofsupporting students.
This position supportsMTSS teams at eachbuilding, supports teach-ers, develops profes-sional developmentaround the MTSS processincluding interventionsand progress monitoring,and is involved with cur-riculum development atall tiers.
A member of the Ham-tramck MTSS team washired for this position inJanuary and has sincebeen working on usingHPS technology and dataavailable to better sup-
port students and teach-ers.
She has presented theMTSS process to the HPSBoard and started trainingbuildings on progressmonitoring.
She has been involvedwith curriculum develop-ment teams at both dis-trict level and county leveland has been a represen-tative for Hamtramck atthe county level for MTSS.
The district is excitedabout this approach ofhelping each student byunderstanding their indi-vidual needs and will con-tinue to support thisimportant work.
Student support service expandedto further nurture students
By Jaleelah Ahmed, ELDDirector
English learners (ELs)continue to be the fastestgrowing student populationin the United States withover eight million students.
In our school district, theEnglish Learners (ELs)make up 65% of the entiredistrict while about 10%are the Former EnglishLearners (FELs).
As a district with somany ELs, it is essentialthat we implement theSheltered Instruction Ob-servation Protocol (SIOP)Model. The SIOP Model isa research based instruc-tional model that has beeneffective in meeting theneeds of ELs throughoutthe United States.
We are proud to havenine teachers that will leadour district with the SIOPModel. The teachers at-tended an intensive train-ing sponsored by MDE.
In addition, to teachers
leading the professionalleadership efforts we areexcited to continue to pro-vide 100% tuition reim-bursement for the HPSteachers who are workingtowards their ESL endorse-ment.
Another big accomplish-ment includes the estab-lishment of the ParentEngagement Departmentthat is within the ELD De-partment.
Currently, we have twoParent Engagement Facili-tators who are experts inthe following areas: health,safety, nutrition, ESL, AdultEd., and education.
With the support of thefacilitators, Mrs. Brown-Llyod and Mrs. Alnajar, wewere able to accomplishmany things to support ourparents, students andcommunity.
We have had life skillsclasses run for two semes-ters and will continue torun them during the sum-
mer. Parents in the Newcomer
Parent Engagement Pro-gram are learning life skillsas they promote their lan-guage and literacy skills inEnglish, learn strategies tosupport the family literacy,and parenting skills.
“Decades of researchshow that when parentsare involved studentshave: higher grades, highergraduation rates, betterschool attendance, in-creased motivation, lowerrates of suspension, de-creased use of drugs andalcohol and fewer in-stances of violent behav-ior” per MichiganDepartment of Education.
It is a goal to move theparents from being culturalsurvivors to being culturalleaders. The ELD Depart-ment is working towardsempowering staff, stu-dents and parents; this al-liance will support studentachievement.
Meeting the needs of English Learners requires many tools
By Corey Pitts, PrincipalThe staff of Dickinson
West Elementary Schooltakes pride in sharing thelearning opportunitieswith each student, parentand community member.
Each year DickinsonWest opens its doors toshare many of the learn-ing opportunities our stu-dents experience with theDickinson West family.The Guest Reader Day,African-American HistoryDay and Passport toLearning are just threesuch opportunities toshare with our DW family.
The African-AmericanHistory Day activities werecomplete with singing,dancing, and art. The stu-dents spent the day im-mersed in theAfrican-American histori-cal story. The studentswere introduced to manyhistorical figures inAfrican-American Historyand heard their stories oftriumph and persever-ance.
The annual GuestReader Day welcomed 22guest readers to DW, in-cluding WDIV’s LarrySpruill in Mrs. Seawood’sclass.
This was a great day toshare in the joy of reading
and we hope all of ourstudents will be lifelongreaders.
Passport to Learning isan event where parentsare led by their student(s)through the school wherethey participate, as a fam-ily, in different educationalactivities.
Each station focuses ona different county or re-gion of the world. The ac-tivities for each station
represent that countriesacademic contribution tothe world.
Sharing our learning ex-periences has been apleasure for this schoolyear. The staff of Dickin-son West Elementarylooks forward to continu-ing this tradition nextyear.
I hope you all have agreat summer.
Students share in the adventureof learning at Dickinson West
By George HillThe 2018-2019 school
year has seen lots of newchanges at DickinsonEast Elementary School.
We are currently at 760students. Success wasreached in many differentforms at Dickinson EastElementary: academics,community involvement,building improvementsand extracurricular activi-ties.
Academically, the Dol-phin students are workinghard while learning fromour new elementary ELACurriculum.
Our continued academicsuccess can be attributedto the hard work of ouroutstanding group of stu-dents coupled with themost dedicated, and oneof the most experienced,staff of teachers that canbe found anywhere.
Reading and literacy area strong focus and wecontinue as the highestperforming elementaryschool in the district,which can be attributed toour focus on small groupinstruction.
This year, we launched a
revamped math curricu-lum where students en-gage in number talks andrigorous math tasks at allgrade levels.
Dolphin students haveextracurricular opportuni-ties this school year thatenhance their academicschool experience alongwith several other initia-tives.
Here are a few of theopportunities this year:
• Newly formed studentcouncil
• Band during theschool day
• “Fin”-tastic ticket pro-gram with weekly andmonthly events such as“painting with a wish”
• Golden Shoe, Mic,Paintbrush and Bookweekly awards to rewardstudents for good choicein enrichment classes.
• Golden Tray for cafete-ria success.
• Student of the monthin each classroom andschool wide
• Safety of the month• Sprouts gardening
club• First annual “Kicking
it with Dads” event
• Positive office refer-rals
The Dickinson Eastschool building is rapidlyimproving with a lot ofcommunity support. Ourcafeteria renovation hasbeen completed and wehave new food options aswell as “A La Carte”choices. Our first floorhas been painted and wehave a new gymnasiumfloor. In addition, we haveadded trash receptaclesoutside the school and wecontinue with our schoolrecycling program. In ourclassrooms, we havemoved many classes toflexible seating and weare proud to announcethat we are a ”1 to 1 tech-nology” school. We haveChromebooks or I-Padcarts in every classroomincluding special subjectclasses and have 11classrooms with newtouch screen digital dis-plays. The main office,now uses student scan tocheck in late arriving stu-dents.
We invite you to stop byand check out the Dickin-son East Dolphins!
At Dickinson East, students take advantage of extracurricular activities
By Kristen HurtHamtramck Adult Edu-
cation Continues toThrive!
As the school yearwinds down and theteachers, administratorsand participants of Ham-tramck Adult Educationprepare for finals, gradua-tion, and summer vaca-tion, we are pleased toreport another excep-tional year.
Over 300 participantsenrolled in our Beginning,Intermediate, and Ad-vanced English as a Sec-ond Language classes,GED and High SchoolCompletion classes.
Within our program,seven participants re-ceived their GED certifica-tion. Many passed one ormore of the four GED sub-ject area tests and con-tinue to work diligentlytoward their goal.
At graduation this year,many participants will bereceiving their high schooldiploma. With ages rang-
ing from 20 through 45years of age, our partici-pants prove it is never toolate to achieve your goal!
This year, we took learn-ing outside of the class-
room and visited the De-troit Institute of Arts andthe Ford Rouge Factory.Both trips were educa-tional, inspirational and atremendous success!
At the Adult Ed program, students find success
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Above: Seven of our Adult Ed students earned a GED thisyear. Below: Adult Ed students visited the Detroit Instituteof Arts and the Ford Rouge Factory.
