The ASC A+ Program is a year-round youth academics program for students in grades 1 through 12, with a special focus on improving and refining study skills in composition, reading, mathematics, and test-taking skills for the SAT, ISEE, and MCAS. A+ offers a unique summer program for academic enrichment that gives students a “head start,” advancing their writing and math skills to excel in the following school year.
Please visit our website for more information: www.aplusyouthprogram.com
Berklee & New England Conservatory graduate with 30 years teaching experience has several openings in studio. Beginners Welcome. Learn Jazz/Blues/Classical, theory, sightreading from a patient, upbeat, and caring teacher. Gloria Jasinski, phone: 617.566.9704, email: piano566@comcast.net
Tuesday, April 3 at 7:30 PM
Managing The Work of Homework: How parents can develop and nurture their children’s executive functioning skills
Presentation by Linda Broderick, M.Ed. and Carla Brady, M.S., CCC, of Architects For Learning.
The Education Center, 100 Walnut Street, Newton, Room 210.
After a long day at school, even the most organized and capable students may find themselves challenged to initiate, organize, and self-regulate the homework process. Parents face the daunting task of providing just right supports, while attempting to determine which supports and strategies will actually help their children succeed.
Students can become successful Homework Project Managers by developing and using consistent, self-guided processes that allow them to complete homework independently and efficiently. During this presentation Linda Broderick and Carla Brady, of Architects For Learning, will review one effective model useful for students of all ages. They will also discuss specific strategies embedded in the model and explore how parents can develop and nurture their children’s executive functioning skills.
Networking and light refreshments beginning at 7:15 pm. Please RSVP to info@newtonpac.org to ensure enough handouts. All Newton Parent Advisory Council for Special Education meetings are free and open to the public.
For more information http://newtonpac.org/meetings-and-events/ Questions: email info@newtonpac.org.
Pen & Ink Technique Drawing Workshop for all ages and levels at the New Art Center in Newton on Wednesday night, April 11, 5:00-6:30pm! With David Mazure, artist and curator of the NEW exhibition M(i)(A)cro: A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition. $5.00 admission fee, materials included. Please register online here http://newartcenter.org/calendar/event.aspx?id=95.
FREE Family Connections Visit on Saturday, April 28 at 3pm! Join us for a free Drop-In educational and art activity based visit for families during M(i)(A)cro: A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, an exciting exhibition where science and art collide! It if offered through the New Art Center’s gallery education and community outreach program Connections.
The Newton Highlands After-School Program, just for middle school children is hosting an Open House for interested families on Tuesday, March 27 from 5:30-6:30 P.M. at Brigham House, 20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands. This is a terrific opportunity for parents to learn more about the program as they plan for the next school year. Please join us and see the wonderful space that is the home base of this terrific program. For more information please contact: Rochelle Acker at 617-999-4617 or highlandsafterschool@gmail.com or visit our website highlandsafterschool.org
Four to five class performers will perform about 20-25 minutes each. Performers will be comprised of two students from Brookline Music School, two students from Berk…lee College of Music, and one student from Brookline High School or the community at large.
Sunny will coach vocal students regarding style and vocal technique.
Sign up now for Lego Engineering 2, starting soon at Horace Mann, Bowen, Cabot, and Franklin, or join us for one of our great vacation-week programs: Deep Blue Sea at Newton North, Babysitting Certification at North, or Make a TV Show at NewTV. Act fast to guarantee a spot in the program of your choice for this summer. We have a wide range of classes for all ages, including everything from Wicked Cool Med School to NewtonROCKS! Indulge a passion or try something new with Kids & Teens programs at Newton Community Ed. For more info or to register, call us at 617-559-6999 or visit our website at www.newtoncommunityed.org.
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson for a discussion of her book about the epic journey of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to U.S. cities in the North and West in search of a better life in the early half of the twentieth century.
She interviewed more than a thousand people and gained access to new data and official records to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. Co-sponsored by: the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society of New England, Historic Newton, Myrtle Baptist Church, Newton Free Library, and the Newton Human Rights Commission. Monday, March 19, 7:30pm at the Newton Free Library, Homer Street. Free & open to all.
From settlement to the dawn of a new republic, Newton’s landscape was dramatically transformed from an economy dependent on small family agriculture to one of Boston’s most prominent horticultural communities. As field crops gave way to the latest hybrid fruit and flower introductions, Newton’s citizens were transformed from farmers to gardeners.
Come explore this transformation with landscape historian Lucinda Brockway as she describes how Newton’s horticultural revolution was born. Thursday, March 17, at 7:00pm at the Newton Free Library, Homer Street. Free & open to all.
Want to be part of Newton’s newest public art project? Proposals are now being accepted for NewtonSERVES BoxART, a plan to create art on those drab, green utility boxes that are scattered throughout the city.
To aesthetically enhance village space, all Newton artists, amateur and experienced alike, are invited to submit proposals. The NewtonSERVES BoxART Committee feels vibrant public art creates an inviting environment and a sense of place and will choose proposals that will help achieve these goals. Proposals should be imaginative, positive, colorful and create delight.
Between five and 12 artists will be chosen to paint the boxes between April 27 and May 12 as part of NewtonSERVES. The Request for Proposals can be downloaded from the website (PDF). More details are available at the Newton Community Pride site.