LIVE-Cooperative Arts & Humanities HS COOL SCHOOLS

New Haven’s GOT Talent!!! The jazz band at CAH high is one of the best around. Even their teacher believes they are professional quality, check them out in our web extras below soooo COOL!

One of my favorite stories of the week was about the cooperative effort between John C. Daniels school 8th graders and the Arts and Humanities high school students.  The 8th graders wrote an Mystery Novel about their school, the High School Students turned it into a screen play.  The Juniors and Seniors  shot and edited a movie version of it.  Now some music scholar from nearby Yale university are composing a score for it… How COOL is that? The red carpet premiere is coming up in June.

There are so many talented kids at The Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven we could have done 2 full shows there.

But thanks to the internet we can show you some of the things that didn’t make it to live TV this morning.  I hope you enjoy some of our WEB EXTRA’S.  Just click below to see the video.

Highlights: Cooperative Arts, Humanities H.S. Cool School Rally

A special thanks to Michele Wade the Director of Public for helping us with all of the logistics of pulling off a great LIVE and Taped productions. And a big thank you to all the parents who got up super early to bring their kids to school at 4 am.  And last but not least, the principal, teachers, local police and volunteers who joined us this morning.

Have a great weekend.

Mike.

LIVE-Old Saybrook H.S. COOL SCHOOLS

Students at Old Saybrook High School know how to build SUBMARINES!!! How COOL is that ?  Just one of the great things I learned during our COOL SCHOOLS visit this week at OSHS.

Have you ever been attacked by someone using Shakespeare as their weapon?  The English department call it ATTACK THEATRE.  A group of the best actors in the school charges in to classrooms and spontaneously does a scene from one of Shakespeare’s plays and then they rush out the door.  The students  get a break  from their studies and a little culture at the same time.

Building a HOT ROD for Old Saybrook police ?  You bet!  Shop students put together a 650 horsepower “Model T ” that will serve as the police departments D.A.R.E. car when it’s finished, TOO COOL!

There was so much more to our visit at Old Saybrook High School, check out the Band (fantastic), the Best Buddies program and a whole lot more in our WEB EXTRAS Video, by clicking on the image below.

Highlights: Old Saybrook Cool School Rally

Thanks OSHS,

Have a great weekend and stay COOL!

Mike Hydeck.

Enfield High COOL SCHOOLS LIVE!

So creative are the educators at Enfield High School!!! Physics lessons take flight in Stephen Smith’s class,  where students build their own hot air balloons and fly them high above campus to test their calculations.  HOW COOL is that?!!

Helping Orphan’sin Ukraine and Burma understand someone cares… Advanced art students at EHS get photographs from orphanages and create portraits of the kids.   It gives them one of the first visual accounts of their childhood.    Because they have no parents, there are very few things to document their lives.   The portrait is also sent back with a letter.   EHS students are trying to make a personal connection to make a difference.

U.S. History teacher Frank Taylorhas been to more than 70 country’s.  He documents his trips with photographs, which line the hallways of Enfield High.  He pays for all of the prints himself.  Taylor says the more you learn the more you can teach.  He’s been imparting his knowledge for more than 50 years in the classroom.  Taylor will be 75 this year, and has no plans of retiring.  I feel richer for the time I spent with him and I think his students do as well.

Generations collide in Michael Webb’s reading class.  His Sophomores are reading “The Ditchdiggers Daughters”and sharing their take on the book with Senior citizens in a book club.  The story revolves around an African American father who tells his daughters from a very young age they will grow up to be doctors.  The true story is set in the Racially Segregated 1950’s .  The senior citizens in the book club lived through the decades, the high school sophomores only read about it.  The discussion between the two groups was riveting.  Race, respecting your elders and how the two groups in the clubs see each from their own perspective.  The session we observed was a real eye opener for everyone their that day.  Very COOL!

Hope you enjoy some WEB EXTRAS. (Portions of our live video that didn’t make it on the air this morning.  Click below to see them.

Highlights: Enfield Cool School Rally

Thank you for a great time ENFIELD High School.

Have a great weekend.

Mike.

Maloney H.S. COOL SCHOOL LIVE!

Close to 1000 students,  parents and teachers joined us for our LIVE COOL SCHOOLS Report at Maloney High School in Meriden this morning.  Did you know you can learn to SCUBA Dive at Maloney?  Students and instructor Frank Auletta taught me the basics.

Students can also become Certified Nursing Assistants even before they leave high school !!!  A group of them showed us why they want to focus on helping Senior Citizens stay healthy when they graduate.

Public speaking class took on a whole new twist during our visit.   The class performed an original country song for us,  praising all of the COOL things about Maloney H.S.

And I can’t forget the fantastic breakfast made for us by the Transitional Leaning class.  Students with all sorts of challenges learn real life skills so they can be productive citizens when they leave Maloney.

If you didn’t see any of these reports, watch them on the Main COOL SCHOOLS page on WFSB.com.

We also post what I like to call WEB EXTRAS.  That’s footage from our LIVE Pep Rally that didn’t make it on TV, click below to see it.  (Don’t miss our video of the line dance party it’s really fun)

Highlights: Maloney Cool School Rally

P.S. Students…. don’t forget,  if you took any pictures during our live reports you can upload them right here on out web site…Also join the  Facebook :Cool Schools Fan Page. We love to hear from you!

Have a great weekend.

Mike.

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts LIVE

Connecticut students have talent!!! Our COOL SCHOOLS report was at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford this week.

Everything from Beat Poets,  to Shakespeare, even Jazz Piano the students at GHAA made for an amazingly entertaining LIVE program this morning. 

Students and teachers drove in from places like Windsor, Bristol, Manchester and a host of other places to be at the school by 4 am for our LIVE reports.   

Sorry about the PIANO, OUCH!!!!

Hope you enjoy some of the performances from our LIVE Shot this morning that didn’t make on TV….click below to see the WEB EXTRAS!!!

Highlights: GHAA Cool School Rally

Have  great weekend.

Mike.

GRISWOLD H.S. COOL SCHOOLS LIVE!

The Steel Drum Band made us feel like we were on Vacation during our visit to Griswold High School for this weeks COOL SCHOOL report, that’s just one of the things that makes GHS COOL!

Their production of the Wizard of OZ this year has a $36,000 budget and the tickets sold out so fast the school made that back and then some!  Everything about the play is done by the students and staff.  The costumes were made by the fashion design class.  The shop students designed and built all of the scenery.  The graphic arts classes did everything from screen print T-shirts, to designing and printing the programs!   The actors are phenomenal and you could only imagine the special effects.

A special thank you to the 600 students and the 150 parents , teachers and staff who showed up at out live report for a special Thursday edition of COOL SCHOOLS!!!

Hope you enjoy some of the WEB EXTRAS click below to see some of the footage that didn’t make on TV.  We wanted to share some of the things that were too fun to not be seen.  

Highlights: Griswold Cool School Rally

Happy Easter and Passover.

Mike Hydeck

COOL SCHOOLS LIVE at Watkinson School

86 percent of the student body stayed overnight at The Watkinson School in Hartford to attend our COOL SCHOOLS live shot starting at 5a.m. this Friday WOW!

Thank you to the Teachers Administrators and parents who joined them,  serving up late night pizza and chicken wings to keep the students going.

One of the mantras at Watkinson is “empowering students so they can make an impact on the world” .   After spending time with them this week it’s easy to see why they have the confidence to do it. They make their mark by feeding the hungry from Hartford to Mexico to Cambodia and beyond and that’s just some of the COOL things!!!

If you missed our stories this morning you can watch them right here in the COOL SCHOOLS area of the web page.. click below to see some of out WEB EXTRAS.Footage from our time that didn’t make it on TV this morning.

Highlights: Wilkinson Cool Schools Rally

Have  great weekend and I hope you enjoy COOL SCHOOLS as much as we love doing it.

Mike Hydeck.

Glastonbury High School: COOL SCHOOLS LIVE!

Another huge turnout for our COOL SCHOOLS report!!!

Glastonbury High School had close to 1000 people there!!! We had more fun than anyone should be allowed  starting at 5 a.m.

I wanted to thank the hundreds of students and staff who got up so early to be there for our live shot today.  The Band was fantastic, the Robot was really COOL, and the student-faculty basketball game was super competitive!

Thanks also to the Drama club, the Cheerleaders and Assistant principal Keats Jarmon for helping us pull the huge effort together.

Hope you enjoy some of the video from our live shots that didn’t make TV this morning.  Click here to see some of our COOL SCHOOLS WEB EXTRAS!!!

Highlights: Glastonbury High Cool Schools Rally

Have  great weekend.

Mike.

North West Catholic High LIVE!

Wow !!!!  What a great turn out at NWC High School in West Hartford!

We had a chance to highlight so many fun things during our LIVE COOL SCHOOL Reports on Eyewitness News this Morning. from the Jazz Band, to a great Tutoring program at the Catholic Worker House in Hartford, and the sports teams were out in full force.  A special congratulations to the NWC hockey team for making farther this season than any or squad in school history.

Also…. Happy Birthday to Principal Margaret Williamson.

The Students at North West couldn’t have represented themselves with anymore enthusiasm and pride for their School.  Thank you NWC for being such energetic hosts.

Hope you enjoy some WEB EXTRAS, check out some of the video that didn’t make it to LIVE TV…just  click right here.

Northwest Catholic Cool School Highlights

Have  great Weekend.

Mike Hydeck.

Mercy High School LIVE Cool Schools!

I can’t thank the young women of Mercy High School enough for joining us for our LIVE Cool School Report in the GYM this morning.

Some of you drove close to an hour to be there at 4:30 in the Morning.

What a great time we had and thank you for the Teddy Bear for my little boy and the sweatshirts for the crew!!!

If you missed some of the LIVE SHOTS…ENJOY SOME OF THE VIDEO we have posted for you here.  And don’t forget to check our new Cool Schools FACEBOOK Page. Sing up to become a fan of “COOL SCHOOLS”

Highlights Of Mercy High Cool School Rally

Have a great weekend!!!

And thanks again.

Mike.