School Administration

Ms. Melissa Pearlman, Principal

Mr. Anthony Esoldo, Director 9-12

Mr. Steve Sikon, Director 6-8

Mr. Brendan Coyne,

High School Guidance Counselor

Mrs. Jennifer Palermo,

Social Worker

111 9th St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222

412-529-6101 tel 412-338-6143 fax discoverpps.org

Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12

A Creative and Performing Arts Magnet School

February 6 - February 10, 2017

African-American History Month CAPA will be celebrating African-American History Month in many ways. Starting this week, the weekly bulletin will feature a prominent African-American Artist with connections to the Pittsburgh area. Please see below for information on Dr. Helen Faison! August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Congratulations to all of the cast for their terrific performances! Please see link below about the director, Mark Clayton Southers: http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2017/02/05/Catching-up-with-Mark-Clayton-Southers/stories/201702050025 Anything Goes Ensemble Audition On Monday, February 6 at 4:00 pm in room 424, we will be holding auditions for any interested students. Please prepare one song, of 16 bars, of a musical theater selection. Sheet music is required for this audition. Middle School Theater Department Congratulations to Will Sendera and Grace Vensel who have been cast in Carnegie Mellon University’s Ragtime! Tickets can be purchased at http://www.cmu-drama.com/box-office/ragtime-2/ CAPA Ski Trip – Friday, February 17 is FULL CAPA Track Team Any student that has signed up needs to see Mr. Abram, in room 412, ASAP. Be My Neighbor – United Way Student Volunteer Opportunity Help make an impact with the United Way by joining us this March 18th, at Soldiers and Sailors for Be My Neighbor Day! Be My Neighbor Day is an annual event that invites children and their families to learn about acts of kindness, helping others and doing good for those in need. Please see the attached flyer for more details. African American History Museum Trip Your balance of $25.00 is due on Wednesday, February 22 to any Social Studies teacher. American Mathematics Competition The American Mathematics Competition will be held on February 15th. The AMC is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examinations in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The AMC provides an opportunity for high school students to develop positive attitudes towards analytical thinking and mathematics that can assist in future careers. Interested students should see Mr. Underwood in room 345. Mongolian Grill Our Mongolian Grill fundraiser will take place Wednesday, February 17 from 6-9:00 pm. Guest grillers will be Mr. Thompson, Mr. Loskoch, and Mr. Grinage. We hope to see you there! Friends of CAPA (FoC) Ice Skating Event The FoC will be hosting Ice Skating at Schenley Park Ice Skating Rink on Monday, February 13 from 7-9:00 PM. Admission Is free and skate rentals are $3.00. Snacks and hot chocolate will be available for purchase. Literary Arts A HUGE congratulations to all of our Literary Artists regarding the Scholastic Writing Awards! Please see the list below. Instrumental Music Congratulations! to clarinetist Matthew Rygelski for being selected to participate in the PMEA District I Honors Band thisweek. The concert is Friday, February 10th at 7:30pm and will take place at Mt. Lebanon High School.

All School Announcements

Mayor’s Youth Council Recognizing the need to honor the voices of young people in the City of Pittsburgh and the importance of highlighting youth’s lived experiences, Councilman Corey O’Connor will launch the Youth Participatory Budget Council (YPBC) in 2017. The YPBC is a youth led program that focuses on promoting understanding of city government, developing youth leadership, elevating youth voices in the City of Pittsburgh, and providing a platform for youth to propose projects to City Council members and the Mayor. In each session, youth will learn lessons on Teamwork, Planning Projects, City Government, Advocacy, and Research and Development, through a series of activities and guest speakers. These lessons will help the youth develop their project proposal. Youth are expected to participate in all sessions, develop a project proposal, and then present that project proposal to City Council at the end of the program. For more information visit - http://pittsburghpa.gov/district5/youthbudget Scholastic Writing Awards – Pittsburgh Region 2017 American Voices Nominees Ciara Sing, Grade 11, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Poetry for “Cigar Box Secrets” Elsa Eckenrode, Grade 12, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Poetry for “To My Dad’s Girlfriend, A Recounted History, ‘I Am Not Wrong: Wrong is Not My Name’” Senior Writing Portfolios Zainab Adisa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key for “Who We’ve Become” Cavan Bonner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention for “Moment Mythology” Leah DeFlitch, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key for “The Other Side of July” Arwen Kozak, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key for “Half-Kilned” Ruthanne Pilarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key for “When April Comes” Grade 7 Winners Emerson Davis Martin, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “What He Did” Neila McElfresh, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “An Apothecary, The Memories in the Pictures” Josephine Reiter, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Ignorance, An Ode to Chocolate in the Form of a Love Letter Because Why Not, The Gardener, Before I go” Iris Roth-Bmberg, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “What I Am, Through the Grapevine, Disruption” Grade 8 Winners William Buchanan, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Love and America” Ellie Clement, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Resilience” Azriah Crawley, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Human Interactions” Madeline Ficca, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Friday Nights at the Bar” Danielle Jordan, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “The Bus Stop” Makenna Katarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “A Collection of Color” Natalie Kocherzat, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Color of Music” Julia McQuiston, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Tunes and Perfection” Steve Perekiszka, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “Saffron in the Sand” Lily Weatherford-Brown, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “Broken” Anika Weber, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Poetry for “The Conversation” Chloe Werner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Deathless” Grade 9 Winners Eva Boeglin, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Short Story for “The True Value to a Thesis” Marie Kaminski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Science Fiction/Fantasy for “Dragonite” Javin Lee-Lobel, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Key, Fear, the Layers” Ilan Magnani, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “If” Lizz Scurco, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Describe Happiness Using the Five Senses” Grade 10 Winners Madeline Bain, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “How To Not Be Born Into a Bad Situation (Once You’ve Already Been Born Into a Bad Situation)” Briana Kline Costa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “skin” and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “I am sweet like honey” Katarina Mondor, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Poetry for “The Golden State Receives Rain” Giordana Verrengia, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “One Look” and for “To Us All” and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “Slamming Doors and Being Cross” Grade 11 Winners Noor El-Dehaibi, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “In with the New” and Silver Key – Poetry for “Hiss” Maya Frizzell, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “Ataa’ Coming Home” Suhail Gharaibeh, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “The Righteous” Jessica Kunkel, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “Strong” Ciara Sing, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key and American Voices Nominee – Poetry for “Cigar Box Secrets”, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “Endings”, Honorable Mention – Dramatic Script for “Nursery Rhymes”, and Honorable Mention – Flash Fiction for “Waves” Serena Zets, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “An Inconvenient Truth”, Honorable Mention – Dramatic Script for “God Bless America”, and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “The Brahmin and My Brother” Grade 12 Winners Zainab Adisa, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “Seeds of Biafra”, Gold Key – Writing Portfolio for “Who We’ve Become”, Silver Key – Dramatic Script for “Debatable”, Silver Key – Poetry for “Sun Goddess”, and Honorable Mention – Poetry for “We Are Americans” Cavan Bonner, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Honorable Mention – Writing Portfolio for “Moment Mythology” Leah DeFlitch, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “Love Story”, Silver Key – Poetry for “July Reprise, Margins”, and Silver Key – Portfolio for “The Other Side of July”

Elsa Eckenrode, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key and American Voices Nominee – Poetry for “To My Dad’s Girlfriend, A Recounted History, ‘I Am Not Wrong: Wrong is Not My Name’” and Silver Key – Flash Fiction for “The House” Arwen Kozak, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Silver Key – Poetry for “Fire Boy, On Moving Out, Replicate, Sestina from Tom Hiddleston, Treading Water” and Silver Key – Writing Portfolio for “Half-Kilned” Ruthanne Pilarski, Pittsburgh CAPA School, Gold Key – Flash Fiction for “How to Keep the Ocean Close”, Gold Key – Writing Portfolio for “When April Comes”, Silver Key – Poetry for “An Act of Contrition”, and Honorable Mention – Personal Essay/Memoir for “Say Nothing” Greatest Save Teen PSA Program The Greatest Save is a recognized charity of Major League Baseball and we conduct this program in many major league cities across the country. There is no cost to participate in the program. High school students produce a 30 second personal safety video for the program. The videos are entered into our contest to determine regional and national winners. The goal of the program is to give teens a voice, encourage responsible decision making and promote personal safety. The Greatest Save Teen PSA Program deadline is March 1, 2017. You can register for the contest online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJW7BYG.

This Week’s Events Monday, February 6 (Day 1) 8:30 AM – Student Services Meeting (Mr. Sikon’s Office) 1:00 PM – HS ITL Meeting (7th Floor Library) 4:00 PM – Anything Goes Ensemble Auditions (Room 424) 4:00 PM – High Key Rehearsal (Room 344) 4:00 PM – Track Team Training (Weight Room) 4:00 PM – Harry Potter Club (Room 433) 4:00 PM – After School Detention (Room 215) 6:30 PM – PSCC Meeting (Black Box) Tuesday, February 7 (Day 2) MS Students attend the Gifted Center 8:45 AM – CAPA Tech Team Meeting (Press Room) 9:04 AM – MS PD (Mr. Shephard’s Room) 10:45 AM – Monthly Arts Staff Meeting (Black Box) 1:00 PM – HS PD (7th Floor Library) 4:00 PM – Fitness Club (Weight Room) 4:00 PM – After School Detention (Room 215) 4:00 PM – Comic Club (Room 608) 4:00 PM – Reed Dance (Room 506) Wednesday, February 8 (Day 1) MS Field Trip to Hidden Figures 9:04 AM – MS Team Meeting (Mr. Mikolaj’s Room) 1:00 PM – HS Content Planning (7th Floor Library) 4:00 PM – Track Team Training (Weight Room) 4:00 PM – Dungeons and Dragons Club (Room 608) 4:00 PM – Game Club (Room B22) 4:00 PM – Science Tutoring (Room 524 & 525) 4:00 PM – FSU (Room 433) 4:00 PM – Math Tutoring (Room 345) Thursday, February 9 (Day 2) 9:04 AM – NACAC College Fair 9:30 AM – MS Piano Recital (Theater) 1:45 PM – HS Piano Recital (Theater) 4:00 PM – Fitness Club (Weight Room) 4:00 PM – Game Club (Room 825) 4:00 PM – Reed Dance (Room 506) Friday, February 10 (Day 1) 1:00 PM – Center of Life Performance for MS (Theater) 4:00 PM – Track Team Training (Weight Room) 4:00 PM – MS Valentine’s Day Dance (Black Box) 7:00 PM – HS Valentine’s Day Dance (Black Box)

Professional Development – February 7, 2017

DATE

PERIOD

TITLE

DESCRIPTION PRESENTER (S)

February 7

Periods 2 & 7

PVASS PD

Navigation of the PVAAS website and analysis of

student growth in conjunction PVAAS.

Ms. Pearlman

Dr.HelenFaison:Dr.HelenS.FaisonwasoneofthefirstAfricanAmericanteachersinthePittsburghPublicSchools.Dr.Faisonalsowasafewotherfirstsforthedistrict.Anamazingeducator,Dr.FaisonbecamethedistrictsfirstblackguidancecounseloratWestinghouseHighSchoolandthenin1968Dr.FaisonbecamethefirstfemaleandAfricanAmericantobecomeahighschoolprincipalinPPS.Dr.Faisonwentontobecomeassistantsuperintendentin1970andthenin1983becamethefirstfemaledeputysuperintendent.HerleadershipinPittsburghPublicSchoolswaspraisedasshebecameinterimsuperintendentin1999,thefirstAfricanAmericantoleadtheschooldistrict. Dr.Faisonwasbornin1924andhermorethan43-yearcareerineducationundoubtedlyshapedthelivesofmanystudentsandteachersinPittsburgh.ThedistrictrecognizedhercontributionsbynamingPittsburghFaisonK-5inherhonor.HerlegacyineducationiswellknowninPittsburgh.Dr.FaisonisagraduateofWestinghouseHighSchoolandearnedherundergraduateandgraduatedegreesaswellhasherdoctoratefromtheUniversityofPittsburgh.HercareeralsoincludesvisitingprofessorandchairatChathamCollege’seducationdepartmentandthedirectorofthePittsburghTeachingInstitute.Dr.FaisonwasalsoawardedthefirstfullyendowedchairoftheUniversityofPittsburg’sschoolofEducationandwasalsoamemberoftheBoardofTrusteesoftheFundforAdvancementofMinoritiesthroughEducation.Dr.Faisonpassedawayin2015.Dr.FaisonhasleftalegacyinPittsburghPublicSchoolsandhassetanexampleforalleducatorstorespect,admireandaspireto.FormoreaboutDr.HelenFaison,pleasevisitthefollowing:http://www.cue.pitt.edu/about-helen-faisonhttp://chronicle2.pitt.edu/media/pcc050411/faison_trailblazer.htmlhttps://plus.google.com/+alleghenycounty/posts/XZCzqD5xav4