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North Ward Center ballplayers in MLB

Thursday, 29 January 2009 22:51 Bruno Tedeschi
North Ward Center ballplayers in MLB

This article originally ran Jan. 29, 2009 on nj.com

As youngsters growing up in and around Newark, Hector Santiago, David Genao, Burt Reynolds, and Trevor Reckling spent their summers playing for the North Ward Center's RBI All-Star team.

Now, as young adults, they're living their dream of playing professional baseball.

All four have been drafted by Major League Baseball teams and are playing in the farm-team system as they hone their skills in preparation for the day they are called up into the majors.

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Robert Treat Academy students witness inauguration of Barack Obama

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 13:32 Bruno Tedeschi
Robert Treat Academy students witness inauguration of Barack Obama

This article originally ran Jan. 20, 2009 on nj.com

New Jersey Education Commissioner Lucille Davy joined 450 students at the Robert Treat Academy in Newark to witness history today: the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th president of the United States.

Students at the K-8 charter school were among the millions across the country and around the world to watch Obama become the country's first African-American president.

Robert Treat Academy eighth grader Nathan Hawley, the president of his class, addresses the audience gathered at his school to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama

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Newark's North Ward Center marks Three Kings Day

Tuesday, 06 January 2009 13:41 Bruno Tedeschi
Newark's North Ward Center marks Three Kings Day

This article originally ran Jan 6, 2009 on nj.com.

The North Ward Center continued its long-standing custom of celebrating "El Dia de los Reyes" with a festive noon-time gathering.

Known in English as "Three Kings Day," the traditional Latin-American celebration marks the biblical event when three kings bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh followed a star that led them to the Baby Jesus.

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Robert Treat Academy saluted as model school

Sunday, 04 January 2009 15:13 Carmen Juri/The Star-Ledger
Robert Treat Academy saluted as model school

This article originally ran Jan. 4, 2007 in The Star-Ledger

In a city with struggling schools, the Robert Treat Academy in Newark is an oasis.

Its test scores are higher than any other K-8 school in the city. School days are longer, as is the school year, and students go on to attend the most prestigious secondary schools in America.

Science teacher Christine Kelly-Kemple instructs eighth-graders Emilio Bernal and Heidi Isabel.

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Michele Adubato addresses Barringer High School Graduates

Read the story as it originally appeared on nj.com North Ward Center Deputy Executive Director Michele Adubato told the graduating class at Barringer High School in Newark on Friday that the community was proud of them for making it through high school. “You don’t know me, but I’m proud of you,” said Adubato, the commencement speaker. “You need to know, people who don’t know you are proud of you. More than 30 percent of the students who began this journey with you did not make it. You have the right to be proud of yourself.” 

 

A Day of 3 Kings and Political Royalty

Read the original story as it appeared in the Jan. 7, 2010 edition of The Star-Ledger NEWARK -- Gov.-elect Chris Christie, along with city and state politicians, joined Stephen Adubato Sr. and about 1,300 Newark schoolchildren at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart today to celebrate Three Kings Day and kick off the North Ward Center's 40th anniversary celebration.   Political kings and kingmakers from the city and state lined up under the vaulted ceilings of the ornate cathedral to pay their respects to Adubato during an event that was as much theater as community celebration.

 

Coalition of Newark educators form unlikely alliance trying to reform city schools

Read the story as it originally appeared in the March 14, 2010 edition of The Star-Ledger With educational leaders from Washington to Trenton embracing the role of charter schools in public education, a group of Newark educators - from both charter and district schools - has formed an unlikely alliance to tackle the work of reforming Newark's city schools.   In all, 55 teachers and administrators meet monthly, and have even attended a December retreat, at each member's own cost, in Puerto Rico. Members say the group is trying to put long-held prejudices aside and share successful practices.

 

Jackie Robinson Day celebrated in Newark

Read the story as it originally appeared on nj.com | localtalknews.com Jackie Robinson Day was celebrated in Newark Tuesday at the Harriet Tubman School as Robinson’s family members presented the school with a baseball signed by the Hall of Famer and first African-American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball.   The day was designed as “Jackie Robinson Day,” in Newark by the City Council, a mayoral proclamation and a resolution from the state Legislature. The event is 63 years almost to the day (April 15, 1947) when Jackie Robison made his debut in Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on opening day.

 

Newark kids get taste of Belmar sailing life

This story originally ran in The Asbury Park Press on Aug. 19, 2009 He spent Tuesday at the Shark River, miles away from his classroom, but Ryan Hernandez learned several important lessons anyway. He learned kayaking is exhilarating but exhausting. He learned that without knowledge of math and science, "you're not really going to do so good" in a boat. He learned how to tie a knot that could help keep a sailboat firmly in place in middle of a river.