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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