Tag: HASI

  • Campus & Community

    Gardner reaps the rewards

    A crowd of more than 100 teachers, school leaders, children, parents, Allston-Brighton residents, and Harvard University officials recently gathered at the Harvard Business School to encourage support for the Gardner Pilot Academy (GPA) and honor Lisa Moellman, the recipient of the second annual Gardner Champion Award.

  • Campus & Community

    A Boston school turnaround

    The Boston Public Schools’ Greenwood Academy has shown major improvement in two years, aided by the HASI program and Step UP, the five-university initiative that provides resources for 10 underperforming Boston public schools.

  • Campus & Community

    HASI lends a hand

    As the Boston Public Schools launched a new year of learning at back-to-school nights, the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI) helped by providing 11 local schools with 3,000 bags filled with homework enrichment materials.

  • Nation & World

    How young students think

    “Mind in the Making” explores links among social, emotional, and intellectual learning. It was part of a weeklong seminar called “Mind in the Making,” developed by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI) as part of the University’s commitment to public service.

  • Campus & Community

    Aiding a pilot school

    Harvard-sponsored math night for elementary-school students and parents at Allston’s Gardner Pilot Academy was the latest collaboration in the University’s long partnership with the school.

  • Campus & Community

    Extra help

    Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.

  • Campus & Community

    Helping outside the classroom

    HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

  • Campus & Community

    SmartTALK Family Night

    Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard hosts Science Across the City

    In a sun-drenched conference room on the second floor of Maxwell Dworkin Hall, about 40 fourth- and fifth-graders from the Elihu Greenwood and Louis Agassiz schools in Boston gathered for some hands-on experiments with Harvard graduate students.