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First Day of School!

Register here for Carver after-school programs.

Here are important dates this school year:

  • First Day: Wednesday, Aug. 31

  • Thanksgiving Break: Nov. 23 (2-hour early dismissal). Nov. 24 and 25, no school

  • Winter Break: Dec. 23 (2-hour early dismissal). Dec. 26 - Jan. 2, no school

  • President's Day Recess: Feb. 17 and President's Day, Feb. 20, no school

  • Spring Break: April 7-14, no school

  • Last Day: June 16 (2-hour early dismissal day).

Register now for the new GBA: the Carver Center Girls Basketball Association!

Registration is now open here online for the newly established Norwalk Carver Center Girls Basketball Association!

All games and practices will be played at the Carver Community Center on Academy Street in Norwalk. We are very excited about this new initiative as it will give us a chance to take our girl’s league to a new level!

Make sure you let the Carver Recreation Coordinator, Shannon Singleton-Bates, (203) 945-9666, shannon@carvercenterct.org, know of any special requests you may have before Saturday, September 10th. 

Division One: Grades 2-4. First graders will be accepted if they are deemed ready. This group meets on Saturday mornings with times to be determined. There is no evaluation required prior to the first session on Saturday, September 24th.

Division Two: Grades 5-6. Fourth graders are accepted if they are deemed ready. Practice once a week with games on Saturdays and on an occasional Sunday. The evaluation of players is on Saturday, September 10th, at 11:00 AM.

Division Three: Players in Grades 7, 5, and 6 are accepted if they are deemed ready. Practice once a week with games on Saturdays and on an occasional Sunday. The initial evaluation is on Saturday, September 10th, at 12:00 PM.

Division Four: Grades 8 and above. 6th and 7th graders are accepted if they are deemed ready. Practice once a week with games on Saturdays and on an occasional Sunday. The evaluation is on September 10th, at 1:00 PM.

Carver’s Recreation Coordinator, Shannon Bates: shannon@carvercenterct.org / (203) 945-9666

Formally known (for 30 years!) as the Girls Basketball Association (GBA), coached by Jeff Iannazzo as a program of the City of Norwalk Recreation and Parks Department, GBA is now the Norwalk Carver Center Girls Basketball Association. Carver’s Recreation Coordinator, Shannon Singleton-Bates, and many other Carver alumni and present-day Carver staff were GBA players growing up. The travel basketball league used to run out of the Ben Franklin Center in Norwalk.

Carver has a long history of operating boys travel basketball leagues. The Norwalk Carver Center Girls Basketball Association will be Carver’s first all-girls basketball league. We are excited to start this new chapter.

Growing up, basketball is a big part of life for many Carver students, providing them with teammates, coaches, and mentors who are like family long after our young people graduate from high school.

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher

We wrote recently about Certified Teacher Nicole Lane introducing anchor charts to her incoming students at the Summer Transition Program for rising 6th graders at Nathan Hale Middle School.

Here we shared about our rising 6t graders reading Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. Determined to give their hospitalized teacher a worthy "last day," three sixth-grade boys skip school and persevere on an impossible quest, deepening their friendship and discovering inner courage they didn’t know they had.

With this blog post, we share about Dr. Danita Coverson, English/TTO Math Teacher at Norwalk Public Schools, summing up these lessons and more with our rising 6th graders.

Christy Counts, an 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher at Nathan Hale Middle School, is the Lead Program Coordinator of our B.A.R.K. Afterschool Program there as well as the leader of our 6th Grade Summer Transition Program there.

See the video of summer 2022 at Columbus Magnet Academy!

All of the fun of summer 2022 taken together is captured in this video produced by Carver summer camp staffer, Zyaire Sellers, at our summer camp at Columbus Magnet Academy! Carver Summer Enrichment Programs at Columbus Magnet Academy and the Carver Community Center include swimming at Norwalk High School, field trips to such destinations as Beardsley Zoo, Maritime Aquarium, Sky Zone, Lake Compounce, Bowlero Bowling, Bishop’s Orchards, as well as the project-based and hands-on personalized learning to prepare students for the coming school year. Our summer literacy program, facilitated by certified teachers, uses the myON and Lexia Reading Core 5 software to provide personalized learning. Certified teachers also teach math sessions, the two primary programs are TimezAttack and ThinkCentral.

Marge Costa teaches videography to Carver kids. Here's her new documentary, "Remembering the Family Store"

Downtown Stamford’s long-lost family stores come to life in new documentary (as seen in today’s Stamford Advocate)

Here is a recent blog post about one of Marge’s videography classes this summer.

What was lost and what was gained

…While the first three acts of the documentary reflect on the day-to-day operations of each of the shops, the second half tries to tackle one of the most complicated marks on Stamford’s history: urban renewal.

When Stamford rebuilt itself through the late 1960s and 1970s, it cleared the way for corporate headquarters by razing large parts of the old Downtown. The little stores became fertile ground for new buildings like Stamford Town Center.

Joel Freedman, who served as general counsel for the Urban Redevelopment Commission, estimated in the documentary that Stamford acquired about 300 properties through sales between owners and the city. Between 50 and 100 more, he said, were clawed from proprietors using eminent domain.

Not every family store featured in the documentary faced the bulldozer directly — some even appreciated urban redevelopment because it brought on new business opportunities — but all agreed that the project indelibly changed the feeling of the neighborhood.