SLA News
Through Senegal trip, Dot Students Connect to Culture
A group of students from Smith Leadership Academy Charter School in Dorchester recently took the trip of a lifetime — traveling to Senegal during April school vacation week. Read more...
SLA Track Team Shines
Coach Randy Willis and a group of SLA students attended their first track meet on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. Smith Leadership Academy came in 2nd overall in the indoor classic. We had several students take home as many as three medals. Xavier Gray was one of the stars of the classic as he took 2nd place in the 200 meter relay, he placed 8th in the long jump and place in the 55 meter. It was a great day for the coach, his students, their families and the Academy community.
Miss Zorilla and Miss Crawford
Mr. Gray and Coach Willis
Xavier Gray's Long Jump
Rejon Woodrow w/ 1500m Walk Trophy
SLA Track Team
SLA Student Does the "Write" Thing
SLA student Nia Richardson was recently honored in Washington for her entry in the "Do the Write Thing" writing competition. Read more...
Harvard Law Charters First Student Poker Society
An initiative at Harvard Law School to promote poker strategy as a learning tool has prompted students at several top universities to form poker clubs in preparation for a national collegiate team tournament and conference next year, among other activities designed to promote the educational benefits of poker in a university setting. Read more...
Charter School Puts Hope in Same-sex Classes
The boys and girls of Smith Leadership Academy in Dorchester are ferried to school in the same yellow school buses, sporting identical uniforms of white shirts and tan pants. They even take turns feeding the school's pet iguana, Gomer. Read more...
School chiefs urge cash lure for math and science teachers
Forty-eight school superintendents across Massachusetts are calling for cash incentives to attract math and science teachers, a new effort to compete with higher-paying private businesses that would change the way teachers are paid. Read more...
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