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NPS COVID Dashboard updated each Monday

To keep everyone informed, NPS has developed a COVID Dashboard to provide ongoing information. The Dashboard will be updated every Monday. School principals will continue to send communications directly whenever a case is confirmed in their building.

Para mantener informados a todos los miembros de la comunidad, NPS ha desarrollado un Panel de COVID para proporcionar información continua sobre casos nuevos y los totales. El Panel se actualizará cada lunes. Los directores de las escuelas continuarán enviando comunicaciones directamente a su comunidad cuando que se confirme un caso en su edificio.

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Isiah Gaddy exemplifies the values that shape and animate the Carver community

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Isiah Gaddy is close to earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Isiah has been a member of the Shaw cross country team and of the Kappa Alpha Si Fraternity.

Isiah just finished a 10-week Business Transformation/Information Technology Internship at Lenovo in North Carolina. Lenovo is a multinational technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures computers, smartphones, workstations, servers, supercomputers, electronic storage devices, IT management software, and smart televisions.

During Isiah’s time at Shaw, he also worked for two years as a Rehabilitation Technician at A Small Miracle, a North Carolina Statewide agency that provides a comprehensive array of supports and services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Isiah previously worked for North Carolina’s Child Care Network as an Early Childhood Teacher Assistant.  

Shaw University is a private Baptist liberal arts institution. Shaw was the second HBCU in the Southern United States. It has been called the "mother of African-American colleges in North Carolina" as the founding presidents of North Carolina Central University, Elizabeth City State University, and Fayetteville State University are Shaw alumni. 

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Isiah graduated from Norwalk High School. He was an integral member of the Carver community growing up in Norwalk. After school and during the summers Isiah could always be found at the Carver Community Center. His aunt, Kimberly Gaddy, Director, Reporting & Analytics, Global Strategy & Operations at Gartner, is a member of the Carver Board of Directors.

Isiah worked as a Carver Summer Camp Supervisor at the Carver Community Center during his last two years in high school. As such, Isiah designed and implemented weekly schedules, activities, and programming for his campers in grades K through 5. He would also mentor our youth and tutor them in math, literacy and fitness.

Isiah exemplifies the values that shape and animate the Carver community. Isiah’s respect for others, honesty, self-discipline, hard work, love of learning, and appreciation of diversity will ensure that he continues to grow from strength to strength as he pursues his career.

Next week begins the annual weeklong "Lights on Afterschool" celebration

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Lights On Afterschool 2020 begins next Monday. Afterschool is center stage all next week: from billboards across the nation elevating afterschool above our highways to iconic landmarks shining bright, from parades to outdoor festivals, and from worldwide social media challenges to virtual events at home. 

We will be celebrating keeping our kids safe, inspiring them to learn and grow, and giving working parents peace of mind — even in a year of enormous uncertainty and disruption. All of the usual bright spots are here, including the #LightbulbChallenge and afterschool fun online and on the ground.

There will also be virtual events (highlighting everything from STEM to mindfulness to our youth town hall) all designed with amazing partners.

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Every Lights On Afterschool seems to shine bigger and brighter than the one before, thanks to you and the millions of supporters of afterschool and summer learning programs.

Have a wonderful Lights On!

Carver's Novelette Peterkin to participate in a Five Frogs convening on equity and justice

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On Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 2:00pm-3:15pm, Novelette will be the featured leader in a statewide convening moderated by  Fahd Vahidy, Philanthropic Advisor & Strategist for the Graustein Family Office.

This virtual gathering is one in a series of Brave, Bold Leadership for a Better Connecticut: October-November 2020 Leader Convenings.  

Register here for the free 75-minute convening when Novelette will share her insights in a group conversation about equity and justice and advancing innovative change. Registration is limited to 20 people. 

Five Frogs is a Connecticut nonprofit organization “building a powerful movement of diverse, representative leaders working together for an equitable Connecticut.” The Five Frogs mission is to build a powerful movement of diverse, representative leaders with the competencies, mindset, drive and relationships necessary to create lasting, positive change for an equitable Connecticut. Their signature program is a coaching program called the Leadership Development Roundtable, which Novelette has supported through the years.

Carver's Aisha Miles is a psychological counselor for Achievement First

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After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Howard University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, Aisha Miles has been working for the past year at Achievement First as a Behavior Specialist. As a psychological counselor, Aisha helps those with disabilities or problems that impair learning or social functions to succeed in school and in life. 

Achievement First is a growing network of non-profit, high-performing, college-preparatory, K to 12 public charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island. The mission of Achievement First is to deliver on the promise of equal educational opportunity for all of America's children.

During her years at Howard University, Aisha was a member of the Psi Chi International Honor Society, Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She also served as secretary of a college-prep mentor organization called CHILL (acronym for College Has Its Life Lessons) that was based on the Howard campus. 

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Aisha also volunteered at Thrive DC, a local charity that works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives. During Aisha’s summer breaks at Howard University, she worked at the Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County as a substitute teacher. The year prior to beginning her studies at Howard, Aisha worked locally as a substitute teacher at Bright Minds Daycare.

Howard University is a highly regarded HBCU school in Carver’s world. This is a culturally diverse, comprehensive, research intensive and historically Black private university that provides an educational experience of exceptional quality at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels to students of high academic standing and potential, with particular emphasis upon educational opportunities for Black students.

There are many ways for a student to become a lifelong and beloved member of the Carver community. Aisha served as a Carver volunteer during her high school years. She helped our younger students after school at the Carver Community Center with their homework and tutored others. She also helped organize special events. Being close to Carver program leaders and as a peer with many of our young people at the time, Carver programs like our overnight College Bootcamp experience helped to shape Aisha’s college aspirations. “I believe Carver is what ultimately pushed me further into the ‘college-bound’ mindset and motivated me to attend an HBCU,” Aisha recently shared with us.

Aisha attended New Canaan Country School from kindergarten to ninth grade. She then attended Trinity Catholic High School from her sophomore to senior year and graduated with a 3.91 overall GPA.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States has measured its impact in terms of the many thousands of lives lost, the number of hospital beds in use, the millions of jobs that have vanished or businesses that have closed. Meanwhile, Aisha is addressing the toll that the crisis is exacting on our youth, particularly the most vulnerable. This is a transformative and disruptive moment in education that threatens the success of a generation. Aisha’s work is more critical now than ever. As sobering as these times are, Aisha’s energizing example of excellence mirrors Carver mission and brings help and hope to the students she is reaching today with her skills and caring.