SLA Media

SLAMedia is a publication of the news for the Science Leadership Academy community. Writers come from the student body in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. We work in unison to create a functioning paper with biweekly postings on a variety of events.

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Hallway Fashion: Bryanna Jones

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Hallway Fashion

Alhaji Koita 

Staff Writer

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What is fashion?

1.  Fashion is subjective. Fashion is how an individuals wants to be viewed by the world.

What are some of your favorite brands?
2.  Ummmm I’m not really in to brands, but my favorite designers are Kenzo and Lizzie and Darlene Okpo (can’t afford any of their clothes)
Who inspires you?
3.  Ugh, Solange inspires me and she is also who I aspire to be. Julia Sarr Jamois inspires me and Prince inspires me.
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak”
What does this quote mean to you?
4.  I completely agree with this quote and also fashion is who you want to be. As much as we like to be believe we define who were are to the world, we don’t. Everyone who is able to see perceives as one thing based on what we wear. Fashion allows you to say “Hey, I’m city chic” “Hey, I’m bohemian” or “Hey, I really don’t care, leave me alone.” We don’t get the chance to explain who we are to each person we pass. Fashion allows us to explain nonverbally.

SLA’s 25 Days of Christmas: Day 8

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Ms. Pahomov
Journalism Instructor

Before I taught at SLA, I lived in Germany and worked as the English language assistant in a high school. I made a bunch of friends during that time, and since moving back to the states I do my best to keep in touch. Even if I haven’t talked to somebody all year, come December I put together a christmas package to send off to about a dozen or so people. This all sounds fun and heartfelt — and it is, at least until I have to do my least favorite part, which is take all of the packages to the post office. The line is always too long, I have to fill out insane forms to send my box of cookies or candy overseas, and every year at least one of the packages gets returned for reasons that are unclear. I have come to consider this my personal Christmas challenge. I’m already plotting when the least-busy time to hit up the post office will be in the coming weeks.

(Cover Design by Jaiye Omowamide)

SLA’s 25 Days of Christmas: Day 1

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It’s December 1st, which signifies the official start to the holiday season, and the first day of SLA’s own 25 Days of Christmas. Buy your eggnogg, choose your favorite holiday pandora playlist and check out SLAMedia.org daily, to read about SLA students’ holiday traditions, stories, recipes, and more! Each day, from the 1st through the 25th of December, SLA Media will be featuring an short article or story from a member of the SLA community! You’ve heard of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days of Christmas, where the network airs a different holiday movie each night until Christmas. SLA’s 25 Days of Christmas will encompass the holiday spirit in the same way.

If you would like to submit a piece…

Some things you could write about are:
– A family tradition or memory from your childhood
– A quick review of your favorite holiday movie, TV special, song, or other piece of media
– A story about why you hate the holidays, or what you try to avoid during that time
– Recent experiences that relate to the season: ice skating, black friday shopping, snowball throwing, cookie baking, etc.
If you’re interested in contributing, please submit soon! We’re accepting submissions through December 25th.
Submissions can be sent to: edonesky@scienceleadership.org

A Penny For Your Thoughts

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Darius Purnell

Staff Writer

SLA students respond to Quotes.

This week’s quote: “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

– Dr. Maya Angelou

This week, we interviewed the following SLA students:

Eleanor Shamble, 9th Grader

Rifah Islam, 10th Grader

Luke Risher, 10th Grader

Morgan Caswell, 11th Grader

Heaven Mendez, 11th Grader

Report Card Conferences: How You Can Make It Go In Your Favor

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As school students we are given grades to show how well we’ve done in classes, usually to show if we are actually participating or slacking off. At least thats what parents see it as. Most parents expect a passing grade such as an A or a B, because they believe that it always possible and if you don’t achieve these goals they set of you, they assume you didn’t try your hardest. In the past parents blamed “bad” grades on the teachers when it is the students work as well.

As students of Science Leadership Academy we are given the choice of a different approach of the dreaded report card conference.

First we don’t see grades as Accomplished, Basic, Common, Deteriorate, and Failed. We look at grades as a scale of understanding the criteria.

Another thing about SLA is that it may  help you or not is the way we grade entirely. When it comes time for the grades to be recorded on the report card they can only be shown as 95, 85, 75, 65, and 55. Depending on your grade, if its in between two grades then is will either be bumped down or bumped up.

What works with report card conferences is that you run the conference, not your advisor or parents. So you are given the voice you might have not been given through grade school. We also give you narratives about you from the teachers of each of your classes in advance, so you can come up on how you want the conversation to run. They tell how exactly you are in class, they say the good and the bad. Giving what you did good at and what you can improve on. Make a plan to show how you can do better and make sure you stick to that plan. You want to look like an excellent student and not a hypocrite.

What I tend to do when given my narratives is build a key. Usually what my key insist of is: What I Did Good, What I Did Bad, What I Can Do Better, What Can I Continue, & Tips For My Self. What I usually do to assure my parents agree with what I highlighted is think how they would think and think of what they would argue. Just as our fellow 10th grade student Michaela Peterson said when I interviewed her about her approaches of the interviews her words were “Stay in control. The conference is lead by you, not about you. Don’t let anyone usurp your power.”

Another student I interviewed was Ellie Kredie and what she had to say was “Be confident! Talk to both your advisor and parent before the conference, letting them know of your grades. Also, just remember that this is a time to get to know your advisor and allow your family to get to know your advisor as well.” just as Ellie said you must not let everything get to you.

One thing you should make sure you do is talk to your advisor. Tell him or her about certain things (if there are such things) that your parents will try to focus on and if you need your advisor to help you keep them on track. Such as your parents might look at the negative of what the results are and you want your advisor to help you show the positive.

Remember its not the end of the world if you have a bad grade it just means you need a little bit of help to get you on the right track.