2006 - Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education

The Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education
Annual Report Card
2004-2005
Gateway Programs
Bayard Rustin High School of the Humanities
(Now the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex)
351 W. 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 675-5350
Principal: John Angelet
Assistant Principal: Alma Barat
Guidance: Gina Graziano
John F. Kennedy High School
99 Terrace View Avenue
Bronx, NY 10463
(718) 562-5500
Principal: Anthony Rotunno
Assistant Principal: Stephen Mathur
Guidance: Joan Firsenbaum
Brooklyn Technical High School
29 Fort Greene Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 652-2379
Principal: Lee McCaskill
Coordinator/Guidance: Giancarlo Malchiodi and Scott Matthews
Lafayette High School
2630 Benson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11214
(718) 372-3480
Principal: Alan Siegel
Coordinator: Linda Rubino
Guidance: Deanna D’Orazio
Clara Barton High School
901 Classon Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
(718) 636-4900 x165
Principal: Jacqueline Foster
Coordinator: Maurice Pahalan
Guidance: Keith Holgate and Mary Ann Finn
Port Richmond High School
85 St. Joseph’s Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10302
(718) 420-2125
Principal: Timothy Gannon
Coordinator: David Salomon
Guidance: Donna Friedkin-Saltz
Erasmus Hall High School
911 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-8079
Principal: Melanie Johnson
Coordinator: Keturah Nubyahn
Guidance: Sandra Wynne
Science Skills High School
49 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 243-9413
Principal: Denise Jennings
Coordinator: Michele Williams
Guidance: Henrietta Dixon
Herbert L. Lehman High School
3000 E. Tremont Ave.
Bronx, NY 10461
(718) 904-5017
Principal: Robert Leder
Assistant Principal: Bryon Moss
Coordinator: Lou Cirillo
Stevenson High School
1980 Lafayette Avenue
Bronx, NY 10473
(718) 918-2700
Principal: Gerald Martori
Coordinator: Tom Decruze
Guidance: Shirley Faivus
Jamaica High School
167-01 Gothic Drive
Jamaica, NY 11432
(718) 291-9268
Principal: Jay Dickler
Coordinator: Kathy Kalansky
Guidance: Judy Reuben
Gateway Schools
Gateway School for Environmental Research and
Technology at Stevenson
1980 Lafayette Avenue
Bronx, NY 10473
(718) 824-9327
Principal: Clifford Siegel
S.T.A.R @ Erasmus in partnership with Brooklyn College
911 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-8079
Principal: Henrietta Coursey
Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School
150-91 87th Road
Jamaica, NY 11432
(718) 739-8080
Principal: Cynthia Edwards
“. . .the Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education, founded in 1986,
has shown consistent success in preparing selected students in 14 New
York City high schools for advanced study in science. And students are
building strong futures on that bedrock: two-thirds of the roughly 2,500
Gateway graduates are pursuing careers in science, including 100 who
are attending medical school or already practicing.”
May 26, 2005, The Boston Globe
From the Directors:
Gateway Institute Achievements and Directions for 2004-2005
The Gateway Institute, in its twentieth year of operation, is energizing and strengthening the range of services provided to insure even greater student achievement. During the past year, 100 Gateway alumni were contacted ten
years after high school graduation as part of the Institute’s ongoing effort to track the achievements of its students.
Many are now completing professional or graduate programs, and almost all graduated from college. We also held
a ten-week workshop for prospective principals. Gateway is preparing for engagement in a larger agenda for
improving the public high schools in New York City. Highlights from 2004-2005 include:
Gateway Partnerships and New Possibilities
School Development and Education Reform Agenda
v Advisory Board member Howard Hiatt initiated discussions with Harvard, Northeastern and Brigham
Hospital to expand Gateway to Boston public schools.
An editorial in the Boston Globe highlighted Gateway's
expertise in improving high school student achievement.
v Gateway continues to develop its group of small
schools which can have a positive impact in reforming
large high schools. The majority of high school students
in NYC attend large high schools (90%) and Gateway is
therefore exploring how to reform the larger high
schools.
v Dr. Julia Rankin, Science Director for New York City
public schools has partnered with Gateway to support
science education reform. Gateway is expanding relationships with Cold Spring Harbor, American Museum of
Natural History and Liberty Science Center as part of
the larger education reform agenda.
v The Gateway School for Environmental Research
and Technology (GSERT) on the A.E. Stevenson campus continues to evolve. The STAR High School at
Erasmus, an early college model, is completing its second successful year with Brooklyn College leading the
development of college courses for its first class of 11th
graders.
v Gateway and the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences at NYU have forged a partnership. Courant will
enroll 12 Gateway students this summer for a specially
designed introduction to advanced mathematics.
v The Queens Gateway Secondary School celebrated
its tenth anniversary and the important impact the
school has had on families and the community at large.
v A new Gateway Program is starting at Lehman High
School. Principal Robert Leder invited Gateway to work
with Lehman.
Elisabeth Iler, JD., Director
Morton Slater, PhD., Director
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New Gateway Partnerships
Gateway Students Attend the Bristol-Myers Squibb's Freedom to Discover Day
The Freedom to Discover program, sponsored by the
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation at the American Museum
of Natural History, hosted 150 high school students,
including 65 Gateway students, in October 2004. The students were invited to a full day of workshops and activities
that were led by outstanding scientists, all of whom were
past recipients of the $500,000 Freedom to Discover
Awards. The event launched a new collaboration with
Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Gateway in Boston
A March 26, 2005 editorial in
the Boston Globe featured
the Gateway Institute as the
best choice for helping Boston transform its large high
schools into smaller learning centers with individual
themes. As the article explains, the proposal for Boston
Gateway “will be linked with the John D. O'Bryant School
of Mathematics and Science, an exam school for grades
7-12 in Roxbury that operates in the shadow of the city's
more highly regarded Latin schools. Dr. Howard Hiatt, a
Gateway board member and former dean of the Harvard
School of Public Health, has presented the School
Department with a plan to enroll 50 O'Bryant seventhgraders in a Gateway program, possibly in the fall.
Students and faculty chosen for the program would adopt
the accelerated Gateway strategy, which typically
involves a longer school day, after-school tutorials, and
science-based internships.” The proposal is contingent on
funding, but the response thus far has been enthusiastic.
Queens Gateway student April Ortega (r) speaks with
Laurie Smaldone, M.D., Vice President, Bristol-Myers
Squibb; Lawrence Linn of Stuyvesant High School and
John Mendelsohn, M.D., Ph.D., President, MD Anderson
Cancer Center.
Gateway’s Professional
Development with DOE and CSHL
On January 31, 2005, Dr. Julia Rankin,
Director of Science for the New York City
Department of Education, took the lead to
establish the infusion of molecular biology
and hands-on work with DNA into the teaching of high school science. The system-wide
effort builds upon the relationship between
Gateway and Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, which together established DNA
professional development for teachers and
installed DNA laboratories in fourteen New
York City high schools.
New Partnership with Courant Institute at NYU
Gateway has established a new
partnership with the Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences at
NYU. Courant will enroll twelve
Gateway students this summer for a
specially designed set of lectures.
The participating 10-12th grade students are from five Gateway programs and all share a strong interest
in pure mathematics.
Lehman High School Joins Gateway
Noting the successful track record of the Gateway
Institute, Robert Leder, Principal of Lehman High School
in the Bronx, invited Gateway to create a Gateway program at Lehman. A team is being put in place and the
doors will open to new Gateway students at Lehman in
the fall of 2005.
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Adrienne Rubin (m), the Gateway coordinator at
Humanities, lead the professional development program. She is pictured with participants David Rosenfeld
(l) and Marlon Michel (r) from Lafayette’s Gateway program.
Publications and Initiatives
Literacy Guide
Literacy Guide
Literacy
Skills
to Prepare
Students
for College
The Gateway Institute Literacy Guide is a starting point for focused, systematic
teacher collaboration aimed at improving student literacy. The guide is organized
by the most important areas of literacy instruction for a college-ready student and
offers some initial suggestions for instructional strategies to build these skills.
Jessica Arnold, Director of Literacy, developed the guide in collaboration with
school-based staff. She helped teachers to translate the ideas in the guide into
practice. Gateway teachers are using the guide to bring literacy into the classroom
as an essential component of content area instruction.
Technology Guide
An important objective of the Gateway Institute is to ensure that all students are
technologically literate by the time they graduate from high school. The Gateway
Guide for Instructional Technology is designed to provide schools and programs
with a tool that integrates technology into all aspects of teaching. Upon graduating from high school, Gateway students will be able to use technology for communication, research, and data processing. Gateway offers professional development workshops, in-class assistance, and one-on-one training to help both students and teachers achieve technological literacy.
Gateway Voices: 2005
Gateway Voices marks the fourth edition of Gateway’s student literary and art
magazine, an important element of the Gateway literacy initiative. By showcasing
student work, Voices has created an excitement about writing among Gateway
students and teachers that continues to build with each successive year. The publication is a collaborative effort that taps the skills and dedication of Gateway staff,
faculty, and students at the Gateway schools and programs across the city. The
final product represents the ideas and experiences not only of the young writers
and artists whose work is featured, but of the large editorial staff of students that
helped produce this excellent publication.
Gateway Parent Guides
Launch of the Summer Placement Fair
Gateway published two guides in 20042005 to familiarize current parents and
prospective parents with the program and to
show how parents can help make the most of
the Gateway experience for their children. The
two parent guides offer tips for helping parents work with their children and with Gateway
coordinators and teachers.
The First Annual Gateway Summer Placement Fair was
held at City College in January 2005. Representatives
from more that twenty-five organizations introduced
over 250 Gateway high school students to many summer programs, varying in requirements, career focus
and types of activities. The event represents Gateway’s
ongoing commitment to providing a full range of academic opportunities for its students.
16th Annual Gateway College Fair
On May 6, 2005, over three hundred Gateway students met with representatives from nearly 100 top
American colleges and universities. Gateway students
had the unique opportunity to personally interact with
representatives from a wide range of educational institutions. In addition, a College Fair Guide was published and distributed to all students with suggestions
for maximizing the college fair experience.
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Gateway Alumni Achievements
HIGHLIGHTS OF GATEWAY ALUMNI FIVE
YEARS BEYOND COLLEGE GRADUATION
The success of Gateway alumni, surveyed five years
after college graduation, is extremely impressive. The
most recent follow-up surveys of 100 alumni from
Jamaica, John F. Kennedy and Brooklyn Tech showed
that over 80% of Gateway graduates complete college,
two-thirds have continued to pursue graduate education
and 60% are pursuing careers in science-related fields
such as medicine, research, and engineering.
Nationally, only 6% of minority and disadvantaged students complete high school and college in eight years
compared to 80% among Gateway students. Gateway
data clearly prove that support in earlier years of education makes an astounding difference in the graduation
rates of minority and economically disadvantaged students. This foundation is the basis for the remarkable
success of Gateway graduates in completing college
and post-graduate education.
Two Gateway Alumni Begin Medical
Residencies at Harvard Hospitals, July 2005
Dr. Darlene Gabeau-Lacet (Jamaica '90) attended
Wellesley College and earned her MD/PhD at Yale
Medical School. Darlene is starting her residency in
radiation oncology at the Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Ashraf Thabet (Brooklyn Tech, '96) received his
undergraduate degree at Cornell his MD degree from
Yale School of Medicine. Ashraf is currently an intern
at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York and will be starting his residency in interventional radiology at
Massachusetts General in Boston.
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A harvest drawing by Lola Oloko (Port Richmond, ‘05) from Gateway Voices 2005.
Gateway Alumni Highlights
Athelstan Bellerand (Jamaica, '93) attended the University
of Pennsylvania, earning an undergraduate degree in bioengineering and finance. He received an MBA from Harvard
University in 2004.
Jennelle Niles (Jamaica, '96) attended Hampton
University and was awarded a degree from the NYU
School of Law in 2003. Jennelle is currently employed in
the legal department of the NYC Housing Authority.
Marjorie Janvier Bellerand (Jamaica, '93) earned a BS in
biomedical science and health care management from the
University of Pennsylvania. She is currently attending Tufts
University where she expects to graduate in 2006 with a
duel degree in medcine and public health (MD/MPH).
Dr. Diane Pataki (Jamaica, ‘90) received a BA in
Environmental Science from Barnard College in 1993 followed by a PhD from Duke University in Ecology in 1998.
She is currently an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California at Irvine.
Chris Escobar (Brooklyn Tech, '96) attended Wesleyan
University, majoring in American Studies and is now in law
school at the University of San Francisco.
Dr. Nichele Nivens (Queens Gateway, '98) attended the
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, was
awarded an MD in May 2005 from SUNY Downstate and
will begin her residency in family medicine at Jamaica
Hospital in July.
Dr. Adrian Gonzales (J. F. Kennedy, '95) attended the
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and earned
his MD at Downstate Medical School. He is currently a
third year resident in internal medicine at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center.
Dr. Richard Holmes (Brooklyn Tech, '93) graduated from
Sophie Davis and is currently an internist at Montefiore
Medical Center in the Bronx.
Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan (Jamaica, '90) graduated from
Brown University in 1994, where she also received her MD
in 1998. Dr. Minter-Jordan completed her residency in
internal medicine and is now an attending physician and
professor at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore.
Karlene Burrell McRae (Jamaica, '90) is currently the director of MAKUU (Black Cultural Resource Center) at the
University of Pennsylvania, where she expects to complete
her EdD in 2007. Karlene was the Ralph Bunche Scholar at
Colby College and she earned two Masters Degrees in
Education and in Social Work from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Mariellis Rivera (J. F. Kennedy, '95) graduated from
Wesleyan as a sociology major and received her MPH
from Columbia University School of Public Health.
Mariellis is currently working as a health educator at
Montefiore’s South Bronx Health Center for Children and
Families.
Dr. Robert Roswell (Brooklyn Tech, '94) graduated from
NYU Medical School. He is currently Chief Resident in
Internal Medicine at NYU-Bellevue.
Dr. Joelle Simpson (Port Richmond, '95) attended Harvard
University and graduated from George Washington Medical
School in May 2005. Joelle will be starting her residency in
pediatrics at Johns Hopkins in July.
Dr. Rachel Skeete (Brooklyn Tech, '93) attended Brown
University and earned her MD at Brown Medical School.
Rachel is completing her residency at Cornell Medical
Center in New York.
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Gateway Student Achievements
Gateway Student Wins $30,000
NYT Times Scholarship
Hai Xi Li, a senior at
Bayard Rustin High School
for the Humanities, is the
recipient of a $30,000
scholarship from The New
York
Times
College
Scholarship
Program.
Three other Gateway stuHai Xi Li will attend
dents
were among 154
Harvard University.
semi-finalists selected from
nearly 1,200 eligible applicants. Hai Xi did not
speak English when she first arrived at
Humanities from China three years ago. She will
attend Harvard University in the fall 2005 and
her goal is to complete an MD/PhD.
Union College Scholarships for
J.F. Kennedy Students
Gateway Valedictorian at Jamaica
Gateway’s
Tawanda
Hutcherson, valedictorian
of a class of over 250
graduates, will be attending the State University of
New York at Binghamton.
Despite being accepted
at such impressive institutions as Cornell, Penn Tawanda Hutcherson will
State,
and
Drexel attend SUNY Binghamton
in the fall.
Universities,
Tawanda
has chosen to use her numerous scholarships
(including the Jewish Foundation for the
Education of Women) to pursue majors in management and mathematical sciences at
Binghamton. She plans on earning a Ph.D. in
mathematics.
Science Skills Wins Championship
Union College, a long-term Gateway partner,
has admitted four John F. Kennedy High School
seniors and has offered them substantial financial support. The students have each received
more than $40,000 per year over four years.
Union College is a highly selective institution
and supports Gateway students through summer programs and campus visits.
Science Skills won this year’s Jeopardy Championship with a
team that included Jamal Ahamad (‘06), Avonelle Brandon
(‘08), Nicholas Calder (‘6}, Jameek Clovie (‘06), Tashzna
Jones (‘08), Bomophregha Julius (‘05), Allan Robles (‘05),
and Justin Vanderpoole (“06).
Madelyn DeLeon, Christian Ramos, Sharona Moore, and
Luisa Cabrera will be attending Union College on full scholarships.
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The Gateway Institute has initiated an academic
competition based on the popular Jeopardy
game. Students from the fourteen Gateway
schools and programs competed throughout the
school year and the Science Skills team were winners of the 2004-2005 Gateway Jeopardy
Championship. The questions were designed to
reflect rigorous knowledge of all core subjects and
frequently drew upon previous Regents Exams.
The activity is designed to help foster and
strengthen cross-school relationships.
Clara Barton Students Create
Two Health Initiatives
With the support of $15,000 in grants from the
health insurer HIP, Clara Barton's Gateway students have launched two important health initiatives to implement teen obesity and osteoporosis
education and outreach programs. Under the guidance of Gateway coordinator and science mentor
Maurice Pahalan, the students will institute a
series of workshops open to teenagers and their
parents to counter teen obesity and to educate the
community about the risks of developing osteoporosis. The students are members of the Health
Science Academy and Arthur Ashe Institute at
SUNY downstate Medical Center, where they initially learned about the grant opportunity.
The Clara Barton team tackles important health issues. (br):
Daphne Lundi, Amy Lau, Candice Wills, Vivienne Cain, Hamanmeet
Singh , Latoya Codougan ,Ehimwenma Omogun, Evelyn Herrera,
Rodely Moise; (fr): Mr. Maurice Pahalan, Vanessa Vales, Gardith
Edouard, Mahwish Anwa; Not Pictured-Arindam Singha
Queens Gateway Students win Fed Challenge
A team of students from Queens Gateway won the 2005 New
York City Alternative League Championship at a competition held
on April 15. Sponsored by The Federal Reserve of New York, the
Fed Challenge invites high school teams to enter a multilevel
national competition that is designed to bring real-world economics into the classroom.The Fed Challenge consists of a 25-minute
performance-based assessment including a 15-minute presentation on the state of the national economy. Students used key current economic indicators and conclude with a ten-minute question-and-answer session. The five member team won a $2,000
grant that will be used to endow a $250 scholarship from the
Class of 2005 for graduating students each year.
Mirline Berrouet, Anisah Baksh,
Vladimir Barysev, (seated) Omar
Khan, Grace Alli were awarded a
plaque for their win.
Gateway Students at Lafayette
Leap Ahead in Math
Members of the Gateway Class of 2007 achieved
a 100% pass rate on the Mathematics A Regents
taken in January of 2005. This is the second year
in a row that Lafayette has achieved a 100% pass
rate. Gateway attributes the success of its program at Lafayette to an effective team including
Principal Alan Siegel, coordinator Linda Rubino
and a strong teacher team.
Lafayette Gateway Program Class of
2007 celebrates their achievement.
Stevenson Gateway Students Are Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Out of a graduating class of 300 at Adlai E.
Stevenson High School, Gateway students were honored as valedictorian and
salutatorian. Nadim Shaun, who will
attend the six-year pharmacy program at
the University of Buffalo, was named valedictorian. In addition to winning two scholarships, he was featured as the Health
Plus/New York 1’s Scholar Athlete of the
Week in March. Nanette Cedeno is class
salutatorian and president of the National
Honor Society at Stevenson. Nanette will
be attending Dartmouth College in the fall
where she plans to major in mathematics
and economics. She is also the recipient
of two scholarships.
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Gateway Student Activities
The 2004-2005 Gateway Student Council in the Great Hall on the campus of the City College of New York
Student Council Unites Gateway Students
The Gateway Student Council serves an important function in unifying the students from the fourteen Gateway
schools and programs. The Council sponsors a number
of events throughout the year. Highlights from the 20042005 included raising more than $7,500 for HIV/AIDS,
March of Dimes and Tsunami relief. A major academic
Students from Brooklyn Tech are among the
Gateway participatants in the “Move Against
AIDS” GMHC Dance-A-Thon. Pictured here are
Ms. Maribel Rodriguez (Brooklyn Tech Gateway
Parent), Shana Richards (’08), Mr. Edwing
Medina (Gateway Student Council Advisor),
Amanda Larracuente (’08), Iguosaduwa
Benjamin (‘05) and Anita Or (’05).
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effort was the year-long Jeopardy competition. More
than 300 students attended the science-themed trip to
Dorney Park, after completing a math or physics exercise. The year culminated with the Annual Gateway
Reunion attended by over 150 people including graduating seniors, alumni, and their friends and family.
This year’s annual trip to Dorney Park saw a
substantial increase in student participation,
up more than 100 students. It also featured
a rigorous academic exercise designed to
teach and test various mathematic and
physics aspects of amusement park science.
Teachers and parents spent a Saturday at
Humanities, watching as students compete
in this year’s Gateway Jeopardy
Championship. The competition featured
academic and cultural questions designed to
bolster student knowledge as they study for
their Regents exams, as well as other classroom learning.
AAMC Career Opportunities Fair in Boston
In November, nearly 40 Gateway juniors and seniors attended a career fair in Boston sponsored
by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The two-day event included campus visits to
Tufts, Boston and Harvard Universities. Gateway students also attended a special workshop for
high school students featuring Dr. Adam Aponte, MD,FAAP, Associate Director for Recruitment
and Retention Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs at the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in New York City. Dr. Aponte is an alumnus of Gateway’s Bridge To Medicine Program.
Gateway Organizes 14 College Trips
This year, Gateway continued its mission to expose students to a wide variety of college possibilities. Students met with school representatives who discussed all aspects of college life including
financial aid, housing, and academic expectations. The following campuses were visited:`
City College of New York, New York, NY
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY
SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
SUNY-Purchase, Purchase, NY
SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Biomedical Symposium in Anaheim
Whitney Reid, Anthony Radmass, and Bomopregha
Julius display the certificate they received for participating in the Research Posterboard Competition.
Gateway students pose for a group shot at the University of Maryland
at College Park.
In March, sixteen Gateway students, representing nearly all of the
Gateway schools and programs, attended the annual three-day event
hosted by the Association for Minorities and Health Professions
Foundation in Anaheim, California. The 20th Annual Biomedical
Symposium was designed to foster learning about and commitment to
professions in medicine, science and research among minority high
school and college students. The symposium, which funds all student
activities, featured lectures by renowned medical professionals,
including two former U.S. Surgeon Generals. Three Gateway students entered the Research Posterboard Competition which featured
a detailed research proposal outlined on posterboards. The research
proposals included: Genetic Mutations Linked with Mouse Ear
Infections by Whitney Reid (Brooklyn Tech, ‘05); How Drugs Affect
Heart Rate by Anthony Ramdass (Jamaica, ‘06); and the Health
Effects of Growth Hormones on Aging by Bomopregha Julius
(Science Skills, ‘05).
Gateway Organizes First Senior Retreat
Gateway sponsored a June 2005 retreat for high school seniors at Boston’s Northeastern
University, a new partner, as the Institute moves towards establishing Gateway in Boston. About
25 Gateway seniors attended a two-day seminar entitled Freshman Year: College Survival 101
designed to give graduating seniors an opportunity to get a jump-start on their new college
careers. In addition to representatives from Northeastern, programs were lead by Gateway staff
and first-year College Gateway alumni.
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Teacher and Staff Highlights
Gateway Staff Presents at HBCU Summit
On March 10, 2005, Greg Johnson, Belynda Rivers and Wesley
Pitts of the Gateway Institute attended the 8th Annual Regional
Meeting of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
The theme of the summit was "Improving Retention at HBCUs:
Redesigning, Retooling and Recommitting." The Summit provided
a forum for educators, students, legislators, business people, government agency leaders and parents to address issues of retention of African-American students in college and increasing the
pool of African-American college graduates. Gateway was invited
to conduct a panel on retention programs that work, highlighting a
few of the many attributes that help us to prepare students academically for college and sustain them through graduation.
Tendai Johnson (Chair, HBCU Summit Steering
Committee), Dr. Anne Gaskins-Nedd (Steering
Committee member), Belynda Rivers, Greg Johnson,
Wesley Pitts,Tyrone Couey at the Summit.
Professional Development Workshops
Professional development continues to be a vital
part of the Gateway agenda. In November, 2004,
fifty Gateway teachers attended professional development workshops at the City College of New York.
The facilitators included Jason Knight , a fourth year
student at Yale Medical School, who led a lively
presentation of “The Virtual Classroom,” demonstrating the potential power of a software manage-
Jason Knight discusses some of the classroom applications of Blackboard with the
teachers.
ment tool known as Blackboard. Mark Saul, a nationally recognized mathematics educator and teacher,
led a stimulating discussion with fifteen math teachers on how to improve students' scores on the Math
SAT. Eileen Petruzillo and Charles Saltzman, retired
Gateway principals from Jamaica and Kennedy High
Schools, worked with new teachers on classroom
management strategies.
Mark Saul, explores strategies for teaching
the Math S.A.T.
Eileen Petruzillo and Charlie Saltzman discuss the challenges facing new teachers.
Literacy and Technology Workshop
In September 2004, Gateway offered a professional
development day at the City College of New York.
More than sixty-five Gateway teachers attended this
one-day workshop, during which Gateway rolled out
its new literacy and technology agendas. The program
featured three workshops. Gateway's Director of
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Literacy Jessica Arnold focused the group on issues in
reading comprehension, Lenora Mosby, Director of
Instructional Technology, outlined new initiatives for
bringing technology into the classroom and Eileen
Petruzillo and Charlie Saltzman discussed effective
classroom strategies.
STAR @ Erasmus Gets Grant for Literacy Plan
Working with Gateway and Brooklyn College, STAR @
Erasmus was awarded a Jobs For the Future planning grant
to establish a school-wide literacy plan for implementation in
the school year of 2005-2006. The team consists of Dr. Phil
Jeffery (Math), David Connelly (Science), Crystal Coble and
Marsha Jones-Ho (English), Victoria Edem (Math), Dacota
Stewart-Dick (Brooklyn College), Jessica Arnold (Gateway
Literacy Director), and Henrietta Coursey (Principal). The plan for next year incorporates a
series of literacy-based themes that will cross content areas and grades and help teachers
align their teaching in reading and in writing.
Gateway Technology and Literacy in Action
Sharon Wexler, a 9th grade English teacher at Science Skills High
School, conducted a pilot program to integrate Gateway’s initiatives
in technology and literacy. Students examined the relationship
between physical health and personal and community identity. They
read a variety of text materials and they developed oral language
skills through presentations and discussion. Each student conducted
and wrote up an interview with a person directly affected by the disease they had selected to study. Wexler identified Internet resources
and utilized classroom technology to enhance the students’ learning.
As part of their final report, students designed and delivered
PowerPoint presentations on their research and produced an ISearch paper recounting their learning process.
Sharon Wexler uses
innovative strategies to
incorporate literacy
and technology in the
classroom.
Gateway Math Teacher Helps
Calculator Guide
Heidi Acuña from the Gateway School for
Environmental Research & Technology at
Stevenson teamed with Katherine Watt
and Danelle New from A. E. Stevenson
High School to create a Teachers’ Guide
for the TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator.
The guide is aligned, chapter by chapter,
to the Prentice Hall New York Math A text
used in most NYC high schools.
Authors of the calculator manual: Danelle New,
Katherine Watt, and Gateway’s Heidi Acuña.
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Gateway
Board of Directors
Chair: Beatrix Hamburg, M.D., is a child psychiatrist and professor at the
Cornell University Medical College. She is a former president of the W. T.
Grant Foundation.
Charles Biggs, former senior partner
at Delloitte & Touche LLC, is founder of
Board Advisory Services, a consulting
firm to help clients’ board of directors.
*Walter Burke, Esq, is former president of the Sherman Fairchild
Foundation and continues to serve as
treasurer and a board member of the
foundation. He is also a trustee of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Morgan Library, and has served as a
trustee for both Columbia University
and Dartmouth University.
Diana Burroughs, PhD, is executive
director and co-founder of TeachersCount, a nonprofit dedicated to raising
the status of teachers. She co-founded
PENCIL, whose mission is to encourage private-sector involvement in public
education.
Alfred Gellhorn, MD, was the founding chair of the Gateway Board. He
now serves as chairman emeritus and
is dean emeritus of the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In
1973 he became the first dean of the
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical
Education at City College.
Patricia Hassett is the chief of staff for
Aetna Inc. and a former CUNY. vice
chancellor. Before joining Aetna, she
was senior vice president at Mount
Sinai Medical Center.
Howard Hiatt, MD, is a senior physician in the Division of General Medicine
of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston. The National Academy of Art
and Sciences recently paid tribute to Dr.
Hiatt for his efforts in founding the
Academy’s Initiative for Children.
Sue A. Kaplan, Esq, is an associate
professor in the Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service at
* Retiring June 2005
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New York University, and is chair of the
Bank Street College Board of Trustees.
Nathan Kase, MD, is dean emeritus of
the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
one of the principal partners of the
Gateway Institute.
Amie Knox, EdD, is an educator and
staff developer. She is a former consultant to the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation at
Princeton University.
Frank Macchiarola, PhD, president of
St. Francis College in Brooklyn, is a
former chancellor of the New York City
public school system.
Marlene MacLeish, EdD, is professor
of medical education at the
Morehouse School of Medicine in
Atlanta, Ga., and is a former dean of
students at Sophie Davis.
Vincent McGee is a consultant and
has been a long-standing supporter of
Gateway.
John Mogulescu, PhD, is the
University Dean for Academic Affairs
and Deputy to the Executive Vice
Chancellor at CUNY.
John Rowe, MD, is president and
CEO of Aetna Inc. and a former president of Mount Sinai/New York
University Hospitals.
*Jean Stein is the editor of Grand
Street, a literary and artistic publication. She initiated the first issue of the
student publication Gateway Voices.
John Tobin, formerly executive vice
president at the Siemens Foundation,
and one of the principals at Brooklyn
Tech that helped build the Gateway
program.
Public Funders
Gateway Funders
City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.)
Funding from C.U.N.Y has provided support for educational consulting services and staff and program development to Gateway
students and faculty, particularly in the area of team development.
Gateway, through the executive vice chancellor’s office, operates
as an Institute of C.U.N.Y. Gateway works closely with other
important University pre-college programs such as College Now
and Gear Up.
New York City Department of Education
The NYC Department of Education has encouraged and enabled
Gateway to work in close partnership with superintendents, principals, teachers and students in the Gateway-affiliated schools for the
past 20 years. Gateway alumni have developed an impressive
record of accomplishment and serve as outstanding representatives
of the New York City school system. Gateway has brought many
innovations to the schools including cutting edge curriculum and the
development of the first DNA laboratories in public high schools.
New York State Department of Education
The NYS Department of Education offers major support through
its New York State Science and Technology Entry Program
(S.T.E.P.) Gateway was among the first programs funded by
S.T.E.P. when it began as New York State’s legislative initiative to
increase the number of under-represented minorities pursuing
degrees in science and technology. Gateway is now the largest of
the state’s 43 S.T.E.P.-funded programs. S.T.E.P. funding supports
enrichment trips, after-school tutorials, and books and materials.
City College of New York
The City College of New York houses the Gateway Institute and
provides campus support for Gateway student and teacher activities. City College welcomes many Gateway graduates to its campus. There are more than 125 Gateway alumni who have attended City College and many who are in graduate science and engineering programs. The President of City College has expressed
great interest in Gateway’s mission.
Private Funders
The Aaron Diamond Foundation
The Aaron Diamond Foundation was Gateway’s first private-sector supporter and provided the seed funds to start Gateway and
continued to fund Gateway’s development for the duration of the
Foundation’s existence as a philanthropic foundation. This funding was critically important to Gateway’s development.
Irene Diamond Fund
Gateway has received generous support from the Irene Diamond
Fund since its inception. Irene Diamond was an inspiration to all
who knew her and her unwavering belief in equality of opportunity
has encouraged Gateway to meet the challenges that she set
when Gateway was started. Her funding permitted the development of many of the educational innovations that are fundamental
to Gateway today.
Sherman Fairchild Foundation
The Foundation has provided a series of grants, beginning in the
early 1990s, supporting Gateway’s evaluation efforts, development of an alumni network, the new Gateway stand-alone schools,
and, most recently, Gateway’s efforts to infuse technology throughout its curriculum and to develop tools and strategies to improve
student literacy. The Foundation has also provided substantial
support for management and strategic planning.
Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women
Since 1998, the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women
has given over fifty scholarships of $20,000 each for four years to
women in Gateway programs and schools.
The After School Corporation (T.A.S.C.)
T.A.S.C. has provided funding for after-school programs at
Gateway. Establishing quality after-school programs for high
school students has been challenging for T.A.S.C., and the programs designed by Gateway schools are providing a viable model
for use in other T.A.S.C.-funded settings.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Association of
American Medical Colleges
With funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in 1992 the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) developed a
Health Professionals Pipeline Initiative (HPPI) around the United
States. Gateway was quickly identified as a recipient of an HPPI
grant and is now considered a national model in AAMC’s efforts to
increase the numbers of under represented minority students
entering American medical schools.
Gateway would also like to acknowlege the previous support from the following organizations:
Greenwall Foundation
An early contributor, the Greenwall Foundation’s funding focused
on teacher professional development and on Gateway’s outreach
to middle school students in preparing them for a rigorous high
school experience and recruiting them into Gateway.
W. T. Grant Foundation
Funding from the W. T. Grant Foundation began in 1997 and has
supported Gateway’s efforts to offer teacher training institutes during the summer and school year.
Wallace Reader’s Digest
Wallace Reader’s Digest was a funder in Gateway’s early years, supporting professional teacher development and enrichment. Activities
for junior high school science teacher were also supported.
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The Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education
Gateway’s 2004-2005 graduating seniors will be attending the following institutions:
Adelphi University
Barnard College
Berkeley College
Boston College
Boston University
Briarcliffe College
Carlow College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Cheyenne University
College of New Rochelle
Columbia University
Cornell University
CUNY Baruch College
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community
College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY College of Staten Island
CUNY Hunter College
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal
Justice
CUNY Kingsborough Community College
CUNY LaGuardia Community College
CUNY Lehman College
CUNY Queens College
CUNY Queensborough Community
College
CUNY The City College of NewYork
CUNY The Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education
CUNY York College
Dartmouth College
Drexel University
Dutchess Community College
Elizabethtown College
Eugene Lang College (New School
University)
Fashion Institute of Technology
Florida Memorial University
Fordham University
Hartwick University
Harvard University
Haverford College
High-Tech Institute
Howard University
International Academy of Design &
Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
Long Island University
Manhattan College
Marist College
Massachusets College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences
Monroe College
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
New York Institute of Technology
New York University
Nyack College
Pace University
Penn State University
Plattsburgh University
Polytechnic University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rutgers University
Siena College
St. John’s University
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY College at Old Westbury
SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Forestry
SUNY Delhi
SUNY Farmingdale
SUNY Farmingdale
SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Purchase
SUNY Stony Brook University
SUNY University at Albany
SUNY University at Buffalo
Temple University
The College of Saint Rose
Union College
Universidad de Margarita
University of Arizona
University of California, Davis
University of Hartford
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Toronto
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Western New England College
Wood Tobé-Coburn School
Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education
The City College of the City University of New York
160 Convent Avenue
Harris Hall H-06
New York, NY 10031
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www.gateway.cuny.edu