The Maritime Aquarium is an important and long time Carver partner, offering crucial hands-on STEM programs to our students after school and during the summers. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, they are still filtering millions of gallons of water, feeding and caring for their many thousands of animals, and even now providing online conservation and science education to students. They are providing each organism with environmental conditions that replicate those in its natural environment. The husbandry staff is just as concerned now as they ever were with factors such as water treatment, salts, dissolved oxygen, temperature and light.
Carver volunteer Vivian Reeves is profiled by The Hour's "Everyday Heroes" article
You can see the entire article here at The Hour.
You can see the Carver blog post about Vivian here.
See what Norwalk school teachers are doing to bring good cheer and normalcy to their students!
As reported by Nancy on Norwalk, “essential workers” as intrepid and informed reporters for Norwalk, for sure:
The distance between Jefferson Elementary School teachers and their students shrank considerably Thursday as the teachers rode in a caravan through the kids’ neighborhood.
The morning teacher parade wasn’t the first vehicle-driven outreach to students: Marvin was first to organize a caravan, Fox Run Elementary School as done it and Wolfpit has “Wolfie” out waving to families. Other strategies for closing the gap while the kids are “distance learning” under the threat posed by a pandemic include YouTube story hours, closed Facebook page chats and spirit weeks.
Distance learning to continue. No spring break this year.
As reported by Nancy on Norwalk, Norwalk Public Schools will replace spring break this year with a continuation of distance learning. Since families need to delay vacations until the life returns to normal, everyone is having to make difficult adjustments.
For the first time in 50 years, Carver had to cancel its annual Spring Break College Tour. In its place a Carver volunteer created this database of colleges and universities across the country that offer 360 virtual tours of their campuses and programs.
The 2020 Census. Get Counted. Change a Life.
For the first time in its history, Census 2020 can be completed online. Or by phone. Or by mail.
While we are all confined to our homes, now is the perfect time to participate in one of the defining events of 2020, something that will impact Connecticut for the next decade.
It is critical that every individual physically living in Connecticut be counted in the census regardless of age, citizenship status, homeowner status, or language spoken at home. But far too many families are not counted, especially those that directly benefit from access to afterschool and summer learning programs.
The U.S. Census Bureau is bound by law to protect your answers and keep them strictly confidential. In fact, every employee takes an oath to protect your personal information for life.
Carver Community Center is a distribution site for student meals each week day, 12 noon to 2PM
As Norwalk enters what we believe could be the peak phase of the COVID-19 coronavirus spread, Norwalk Public Schools is modifying its food distribution model. School bus meal delivery to bus stops, as well as door-to-door meal deliveries for special education students, will be postponed until further notice. To make sure that students and families still have meal options, this alternate plan is now in place.
Starting Monday, March 30 until further notice, meals will now be available at 10 food distribution sites across the city from 12 noon to 2 pm, Monday through Friday, including at the Carver Community Center.
Young people around the world defy the gloom with hope and song
Throughout America, Canada, the UK, and across the world, families are placing rainbow drawings, paintings, and rainbow crafts in their windows as social distancing becomes the new norm. Millions of children in Italy were the first to create these unique and colorful morale boosters during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
Factory Underground is a local treasure well worth your attention and support
We have been posting here about extra learning tools and places of support for our students and families. Today, we showcase a trusted service for extraordinary enrichment learning opportunities that may be helpful before and after the new virtual school day: Norwalk’s own Factory Underground.
How youth are responding to the pandemic with good deeds
Shaivi Shah has rallied her fellow honor society students into helping her give away more than 250 low-cost “sanitation kits” to homeless shelters.
Finding help during the public health crisis
With the vast majority of America’s public schools now shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic, more than 54 million children have been told that they won’t be attending class for the next several weeks. In many cases, students may be left learning from home through the end of the academic year.