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Due to a School District of Philadelphia professional development day on Friday, 12/17, SLA will follow a modified half-day schedule, as listed below.

Friday, 12/19 – SDP Staff Professional Development

B2: 08:15 - 08:55

C2: 09:00 - 09:40

D2: 09:45 - 10:25

E2: 10:30 - 11:10

X2/Y2: 11:15 - 11:55

Lunch/Dismissal: 12:00 - 12:30

Due to a School District of Philadelphia professional development day on Friday, 11/19, followed by report card conference days on Monday, 11/22, and Tuesday, 11/23, SLA will follow modified half-day schedules, as listed below. Wednesday, 11/24, will run on the normal SLA schedule, but with no afternoon special programming (9th grade mini-courses and 10th/11th ILPs). Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Friday, 11/19 – SDP Staff Professional Development

B2: 08:15 - 08:55

C2: 09:00 - 09:40

D2: 09:45 - 10:25

E2: 10:30 - 11:10

X2/Y2: 11:15 - 11:55

Lunch/Dismissal: 12:00 - 12:30

Monday, 11/22 – Report Card Conferences

A1: 08:15 - 08:55

B1: 09:00 - 09:40

C1: 09:45 - 10:25

D1: 10:30 - 11:10

X1/Y1: 11:15 - 11:55

Lunch/Dismissal: 12:00 - 12:30

Afternoon Conferences: 01:00 - 04:00

Tuesday, 11/23 – Report Card Conferences

E1: 08:15 - 08:55

A2: 09:00 - 09:40

B2: 09:45 - 10:25

C2: 10:30 - 11:10

X2/Y2: 11:15 - 11:55

Lunch/Dismissal: 12:00 - 12:30

Evening Conferences: 04:00 - 07:00

Wednesday, 11/24 – 12:50pm Dismissal for Thanksgiving Break

D2: 08:15 - 09:20

E2: 09:25 - 10:30

A1: 10:35 - 11:40

B1: 11:45 - 12:50

Lunch/Dismissal: 12:50 - 01:20 (No Afternoon Special Programs: Mini-Courses/ILPs)

Due to the continued flooding in the surrounding areas, the School District of Philadelphia has determined that Friday, 9/3, is going to be a virtual school day for all students in the district. Students should log into their classes via Zoom link posted at the top of their course Canvas pages. Those links should be posted by Friday morning, if not sooner. Below is the modified virtual schedule for the day. We will see everyone in person again on Wednesday, 9/8, following the Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah no-school days.

Friday, 9/3, Virtual Schedule

B2: 9:00 - 9:30

C2: 9:35 - 10:05

Y2: 10:10 - 10:40

X2: 10:45 - 11:15

D2: 11:20 - 11:50

E2: 11:55 - 12:25

Independent Work Time: 12:30 - 3:00

Welcome back to school, SLA students! On the first two days of school we will follow the below special schedules. We will start following our usual schedule (as printed on student schedules) each day beginning on Thursday, 9/2. Have a great year, SLA community!

TUESDAY, 8/31:

08:15am - 10:05am Advisory

10:10am - 10:55am E1 Band

11:00am - 11:45am Y2 Band

11:50am - 12:35pm X2 Band

12:40pm - 01:25pm A2 Band

01:30pm - 02:15pm B2 Band

02:20pm - 03:05pm C2 Band

WEDNESDAY, 9/1:

08:15am - 09:10am D2 Band

09:15am - 10:10am E2 Band

10:15am - 11:10am A1 Band

11:15am - 12:10pm B1 Band

12:15pm - 12:45pm Lunch (10/11th grades) / Advisory (9/12th grades)

12:50pm - 01:20pm Advisory (10/11th grades) / Lunch (9/12th grades)

Please see below for updates to our pre-season tryout/practice schedule. If a sport is not listed, it’s tryout info has not changed.. As a reminder, students may not participate without a fully completed PIAA physical. Feel free to reach out to Ms. Siswick (zsiswick@scienceleadership.org) with any questions.

Current COVID-related guidance requires all athletes and coaches to be masked indoors. Vaccinated individuals may be unmasked outdoors while unvaccinated individuals must be masked at all times.

Girls Soccer

Tuesday, August 17th 2pm-SLA/Franklin gym (note location change)

Wednesday, August 18th 4pm-SLA/Franklin gym (note location change)

Thursday, August 19th 4pm-Marconi Playground OR SLA gym, weather dependent

Boys Soccer (JV&Varsity)

Tuesday, August 17th 12:15pm-SLA/Franklin gym (note time and location change)

Wednesday, August 18th 12:15-SLA/Franklin gym (note time and location change)

Thursday, August 19th-time and location TBD, weather dependent

Girls Volleyball (JV&Varsity)

Tuesday, August 23rd 2-4pm-SLA/Franklin gym

Wednesday, August 24th 2-4pm-SLA/Franklin gym

Thursday, August 25th 2-4pm-SLA/Franklin gym

Co-Ed Cross Country

Tuesday, August 23rd 3:30pm-meet outside auditorium

Wednesday, August 24th 3:30pm-meet outside auditorium

Thursday, August 25th 3:30pm-meet outside auditorium

Girls and Boys Ultimate

Tuesday, August 17th - meet in SLA Commons at 12:15 (weather permitting)

Wednesday, August 18th - meet in SLA Commons at 12:15 (weather permitting)

Thursday, August 19th - meet in SLA Commons at 12:15 (weather permitting)

Hello SLA Families,

We hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer! See below for the first week of tryout/pre-season information for our fall sports. All student-athletes MUST have a fully completed PIAA physical (click on document linked below) dated June 1, 2021 or later in order to participate in any workout. If families encounter difficulties obtaining a physical from their physician’s office, most urgent care clinics will complete them for $40-50.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the coaches and/or our Athletic Director, Ms. Siswick, with any questions or concerns.

Girls Soccer

Coach: Zoe Siswick (zsiswick@scienceleadership.org)

Pre-Season/Tryout Information: Tuesday, August 17th 2pm Wednesday, August 18th and Thursday, August 19th, 4pm Marconi Playground, Broad & Oregon Ave.

Boys Soccer

Coach: Jimmy O’Karma (jgokarmajr@philasd.org)

Monday August 16th, 2021 10am- 11am @ Sacks Playground (4th and Washington Avenue)- This is document collection day. Please bring your completed physical! If you want to stay and play pickup (physical needed), we will be there for the hour.

Tuesday August 17th- Friday August 20th @ Sacks Playground (4th and Washington) 10am-12pm Preseason Practice

Football

Coach: Lorell McCook (lamccook@philasd.org)

Monday, August 9th: Free physicals at school (use Ben Franklin/Broad St. entrance) at 3:30pm Must have parent signatures on physical form Tuesday, August 10th-Friday, August 13th-Heat acclimatization/tryouts) 3:30 at 18th & Wallace

Cross Country Coach: Jaclyn Rickus (jrickus@philasd.org)

Friday, August 20th-time TBD

Girls Volleyball

Coach: Karina Hirschfield (khirschfield@scienceleadership.org)

Tryouts Wednesday, August 18th & Thursday August 19th, SLA gym, time TBD

Ultimate Frisbee

Girls Coach: John Henkel (jhenkel@scienceleadership.org)

Boys Coach: Chris Lehmann (clehmann@scienceleadership.org)

Students who are interested in playing ultimate should wear comfortable clothing and cleats (if you have them) to Summer Institute. There will be introductory sessions each day after Summer Institute

Students Run Philly Style

Coach: Jeremy Spry (jspry@scienceleadership.org)

Students who are interested in SRPS will get more information at Summer Institute and/or once the school year begins

I felt very good; and, we knew that we helped our environment., One of the park engineers thanked us and said that it was nice of us to be cleaning the park. I feel like by cleaning up, we made our environment safer, healthier and cleaner, we made essential workers happy; and, hopefully, we inspired others to clean up themselves. For example, my six year old, younger brother also helped out. He went around the park with a stick, grabbing the trash, and putting it into the trash bag. Holding a public park cleanup showed him and all those in our neighborhood that keeping the environment clean is important. Involving young people, like my brother, in these activities, teaches the next generation to care about our planet. Perhaps, in the future,he can do a similar clean up at his school, helping my mission and making my idea grow.

Many organizations are working to help our city and country improve the environment, increase air quality, and to make their parks more beautiful. People are also trying to use solar energy, reducing their dependence on power plants that spread greenhouse gases into our environment. Another way to make a difference in the fight for our planet is by protesting, many people gather and protest climate change. There are many changes that will reduce our impact on our planet and help fix the problems we have already caused. There are also websites that people can see to learn more about this topic, and I think that many of these websites are kid friendly.targeting the future generations is important, because when we talk about climate, it’s their future that we are looking forward to. There’s also websites that do stuff like I did in a big group, clean parks, plant trees, and other cool and safe activities to help the environment. I learned so much more about helping our environment and enjoyed helping make a difference in my community with my family. Maybe you and some friends would like to help out the community in a similar way? Go ahead,and grab that litter!

I’m not sure if these have to be on Slate or not to count, so I’m putting them here in case they do. Song 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYuldcuhY7AEnSjNz9cY-FMEbk8Kc-l1/view?usp=sharing Song 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12r71WsbHzExZC7l7pLynmni8IQcNwRjw/view?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_fql1CQncVvnM4_Wp09FyXL1A4ZzEcoMy9tL_0Nq7iQ/edit?usp=sharing

Section 1: Introduction I made a couple songs. Making music is something I’ve been curious about wanted to do for a while, and this was a good opportunity.

Section 2: Process I used Chrome music labs and Reaper to create my music. I didn’t know what my capstone was going to be until after winter break. I researched all of this by myself. Section 3: Reflection If I were to redo this, I wouldn’t have put it off until February.

In my previous post I talked about the history of wax cylinder records and why their historical value is worth preserving and I discussed the people who are interested in preserving them and why. In my Agent of Change I am aiming to continue to spread awareness of cylinder records and promote the preservation of them by continuing campaigning and promoting archives and agencies who preserve records, like the UCSB Cylinder Archive. I have also created an Instagram account that is going to post daily to raise further awareness for cylinders. The account will post daily and share a fun fact about cylinder records and share a daily cylinder recording from the UCSB archives, which will both promote awareness and bring even more attention to the efforts being made at UCSB. My further research and starting the cylinder account has shown me that people are interested in cylinders quite a bit, seeing as the account so far has 19 followers and the 2 posts I have done so far are getting likes and engagement. I am hopeful that people will continue to follow the account and some more efforts can be made in the future to continue spreading awareness. I also hope that I can make an effort to reach out to UCSB eventually and help to organize some sort of campaign to get museums to start preserving cylinders as they do other forms of art. My goal beyond just raising awareness is mainly to get people/organizations who have the funds and resources to preserve and digitize cylinders to consider starting collections similar to the UCSB archives. UCSB is the only archive for cylinders of it’s kind, so I hope museums in the future consider starting collections of cylinders. I have also found out that the Library of Congress has also made efforts to preserve cylinders, but I am unsure if these kinds of efforts are still being made today. The Federal Cylinder Project also has worked to preserve Native American cylinder projects as well, which is a great effort to preserve a culture that not many people have considered. I feel that so far my Agent of Change has gone well, but I think that I should’ve reached out to UCSB sooner than I planned to, because I didn’t expect the Instagram account to gain immediate attention, although I am glad that it has actually started to make progress so early on. I am happy overall with this project as a whole, since I have made a lot of progress with gaining followers for the account. I also feel happy that I’ve found a way to use one of my personal interests with music to create something to inspire change and help preserve an important part of history that many don’t care about. I also feel like with this project I am going to start my own personal efforts to preserve cylinders and start a collection. I hope that one day I can start an archive to store and transcribe home recordings of wax cylinders. I just need to continue to run the account and hopefully save my money to purchase more cylinders and technology to play them and preserve the audio.

My Senior Capstone is a website that gives future SLA students the blueprint for an SLA Music Studio. The site includes a homemade blueprint, products with descriptions, and the science behind sound. The link below will take you there. I hope you enjoy it!

https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/anslamusicstudio/home?authuser=1 https://sites.google.com/scienceleadership.org/anslamusicstudio/references?authuser=1

In my previous post I talked about why I switched my topic from elephant poaching to teenage sleep. In short I switched because the problem of teenagers not getting enough sleep is something that I myself struggle with and people I know struggle with it. When researching sleep deprivation i found that around 87% of teenagers struggle with it so chances are you or someone you know is affected by it Right now I am telling alot of my friends and family about the topic and informing them of all the signs that can show they are experiencing sleep deprevention. I’m also talking to people about what the effects of sleep deprivation are so they know to get enough sleep and to share the same information with others. Stanford medicine has an article about teen sleep. It talks about one solution to sleep prevention, moving back school start times. This is only a partial solution though because more people need to know that it is a big problem and that they should be getting more sleep.For my agent of change I wanted to make a presentation and share it with my advisory. I decided to do this because it is an easy way to get the word out to a bunch of teenagers that most likely struggle with the issue at hand. Unfortunately due to reasons on my end, I was unable to present my presentation to my advisory. I was able to share my presentation to my class though. I think that overall I was effective at making change. My classmates all know about the issue so they can take action if they so please. I know that I have made change in myself as well. I have started to get more and more sleep so if i didn’t make a change for everyone else, i at least did for myself.Overall this project was extremely fun. This is probably the case because of how it is all about something that I am passionate about. With my first topic, animal poaching I really wasnt super passionate about and it didn’t feel quite right doing it for my project. I think one of the things I could have done better would have been actually presenting my presentation to my advisory. I don’t think that there is much left for me to do to make change besides telling more people. Others including you who are reading this can tell others about the problem and you yourself can make change.

In my last slate post I wrote a piece called “Born Different” in which I talked about me being different from everyone else in my family and what that felt like for me. I also talked about my brother and how he helped me understand that I belonged even though I was different from everyone else in my family. He helped me see that being different wasn’t so bad and that being brown in a white family wasn’t bad either. In my ongoing research something that I have done was make a blog post. In the beginning I was going to do an instagram but then I decided to do a blog post. I did this because I didn’t have too much time but If I can I would do an instagram post to have my research be more out there in the world. It would also show people what the police force has become well before even now but even more so now that they have become a militarized type of police force. For this to change I believe that either defunding or just not putting as much money into the police force would help them not be so militarized. Yes I get that they have to protect people but they shouldn’t be so over militarized to the point where they have pretty much huge armored vehicles, grenade launcher type things like the thing they shoot tear gas out of. Overall I just think they need to not get as much funding so they don’t become over militarized. I also think that the police put people of color in prison even when they do nothing wrong so that’s why I think that the justice system also needs to be fixed. Lastly I think that the amount of time for police that are trained should be increased and police should be monitored by a single overlooking type of government. Especially now with everything that’s been going on and that’s getting released right now out in the world.

When pursuing my agent of change I was thinking about what I could really reflect on and the most recent thing at the time was my brother’s arrest and what he had noticed with the police. In the end I decided to choose the topic of militarized police and well police in general. I did this because when my brother was arrested the police didn’t let him get a phone call. They took him to a prison facility where he was later integrated by the FBI and asked certain questions all because he was trying to help people who were being tear gassed at a protest. He was trying to help people by providing water with certain stuff inside to help with the eyes but when he was arrested he was accused of mixing chemicals to create something worse. When he was taken they also took his friend and put zip ties on their wrists but to the point where my brother’s friends hands turned purple. They asked to loosen them but they didn’t know how to. Later they were put into the system and transferred to several different prisons for hours until he and my brother were split up and put into different jail cells. My brother was telling me how he got put into a cell with a black man who had his back broken and how the police didn’t even bother helping him so the man was cold throughout the night since it was cold that night. In the end I was reflecting on everything me and my brother talked about. I decided to do the topic of militarized police which also went deeper into the funding of police. Funding into prison training and the actual police force. I was effective at making a change by telling my brother’s story to my friends helping them see how the police treat prisoners. Citizens. Black people.

Doing this project I felt pretty good about what I decided to do for my Y&TW project. I also felt pretty strongly for what I was looking for when I was researching. But overall I felt pretty good about my project and felt like I did a lot. Something that I learned about myself is that after doing this project I see more now that the police in the US are pretty much a second type of military. In a way, the way it’s going or was going showed that the police was becoming more of a military type of force than a police force. Something I learned from my brother was that after he was arrested he learned something from the guy in his cell who told him “don’t worry you’ll be okay youll have have a lot better chance getting out of here than I will”. After that he was starting to calm down and got out the next day but he reflected on that moment because he was white and the guy in the cell was black with a broken back and my brother wasn’t in any pain but was just afraid because of his interrogation with the FBI. Something that I feel like I could have done better with is going into more detail about my Y & TW project or maybe by doing an instagram post instead of a Blog Post would have been better. I think something that people need to do is know more about the police being militarized and spreading it but a lot of people don’t think of that when they hear about police when really the police are militarized in the US. So I think writing more or spreading more about the police being militarized could help people understand more about it.

My issue is Privacy Violations, by social media sites. In my recent slate post. I wrote about how much information Google and Facebook collect on their users and what they do with it. After some research, Some things that have been done to fix the issue I chose is congress passing an Internet privacy bill in 2019. In my opinion, this is a great way to make change. The only way these technology companies will change their ways is if we go the legal route. However, the bill hasn’t been enforced much, which is a huge problem. There is no point in passing a bill if it does nothing. India on the other hand, passed an internet privacy order this year, and they are really enforcing it. The Indian government is currently investigating WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, for breaching Indian anti-trust laws.

My goal was to inform people on what happens with their information when they use Social Media sites. I researched what type of data social medias collect, and how to protect your privacy from them. Then I wrote my own article detailing my research. I decided to write an article to inform people because I had no idea how much Social Media companies knew about me until I watched a documentary on it. After that, I still had to do research of my own. So I wanted to make it easier for people to learn about this topic. My article isn’t too long, it’s a short read that will make sure you get the gist of the problem and how to protect your privacy. After writing the article I contacted Mr.Jeremy Spry and explained my topic to him and the article I wrote. He was able to publish my article in the most recent advisory memo. If you haven’t seen me I’m right under book club.

In my experience doing this project, it was pretty eye opening how much data Technology Companiescollect. Something I think I could’ve done better is to have covered more social media in my article because I wrote about Facebook, Snapchat, and Google. I think including Twitter and Reddit could’ve made my project better. Link to annotated bibliography