Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers

	August Wilson Monologue Competition Returns to Kennedy Academy! On Thursday January 19, 2012 Kennedy Academy hosted its third annual August Wilson Monologue Competition. The school level competition prepares students for the Boston regional finals and the national competition that will be held in New York later this spring.
	Kennedy Academy Poets: A Night to Shine Kennedy Academy hosted its school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition on Thursday January 19, 2012. The school level competition paves the way to the regional, state and national poetry recitation contests that will be held later this spring.
	Kennedy Academy students: Are you ready for mid-term exams? The mid-term exam period has arrived, with the exam period beginning Monday January 9 and continuing through Friday January 20. We hope you are already well underway, preparing for success on these important exams both in your classes and outside of school. Click here to see the full schedule.
	Jubilee Alumni Breakfast 2011 Please join us for our second annual Jubilee Alumni Breakfast!
	Students and staff participate in the Step Out Walk for Diabetes
	A Smart Move Forward: Kennedy Academy Alum Joins Children's Hospital Nursing Staff Congratulations are in order for Julie Romain, Health Careers Academy 2007 graduate, and member of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences class of 2011. Having passed her nursing boards in July with flying colors, Julie will now begin her nursing career at Children's Hospital in the Infusion Center. Congratulations Julie! Come back and visit often - our students have so much to learn from your success!
	Kennedy Academy Celebrates Alumni Success! Congratulations to David Huynh who recently visited Kennedy Academy and shared news of his acceptance to an Accelerated Bachelor's program in Magnetic Resonance Imagine at Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Science. David is a member of the Health Careers Academy class of 2004, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in Biology. Since his college graduation David has been working at Boston University in a dialysis clinic. Way to go David! Best of luck at MCPHS.
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Dear Friends and Visitors:

The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy imagined a future of educational excellence for all children, as well as health care and economic opportunity for all families.

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Kennedy Academy for Health Careers is a college preparatory high school for Boston students exploring careers in health and health-related professions. The Academy provides a supportive learning environment that promotes respect and embraces diversity. Students will attain the life skills needed to become productive and positive members of society.

In 1995, a group of community health care providers and higher education leaders recognized that too few inner-city children were envisioning the career possibilities in the health professions. Too few had the role models, mentors, and rigorous academic preparation needed to nurture these dreams. And, consequently, too few were finding their way into professional health care futures.

Kennedy Academy for Health Careers was created as their solution to this problem, providing a seamless pathway of opportunity for Boston children to access the city's rich educational resources in the health professions. Founded as one of Boston's original pilot schools, the school was a partnership of the Boston Public Schools and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS) at Northeastern University. In 1998, seeking greater autonomy and program flexibility, the school applied for and received designation from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as one of the first Horace Mann Charter Schools. Since that time the school has been located on the main campus of Northeastern University, in the heart of Boston's higher education and health care community. Beyond the college campus, partnerships with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Hospital, and a variety of other community health care providers bring rich career-focused experiential learning opportunities to HCa students.

HCa is a school that prepares children for the academically rigorous higher education needed for health professions. In the classroom and in extracurricular activities, our students are challenged to reach their full potential every day. HCa is a place where students prepare themselves to realize their own dreams of becoming the doctors, nurses, researchers, and social workers who will make up the diverse healthcare workforce of tomorrow.

• We offer a rigorous academic program because it is the cornerstone for success in both higher education and professional futures.
  
  
• We establish high expectations for effort and progress because this helps students develop the discipline and confidence they will need to succeed at whatever life goals they establish for themselves.
  
  
• We focus on health and science to excite student interest and establish relevance in education, to promote a career focus, and ultimately, to address the health care needs of underserved communities.
  
  
• We help our students to become responsible adult citizens by nurturing their commitment to and responsibility for their own community.
  
  
• We take a holistic view of the student, providing support for social, emotional and intellectual development, and recognizing the particular importance of families in the process of education.
  
  
• We believe that all students have the potential to achieve at high levels, and so we enroll students based only on their interest in exploring the health careers and their willingness to meet the challenge of learning with their best effort.
  
  
• We are part of a search for educational strategies that can have broader applicability and can lead to systemic change in the schools and in the community.

We believe this comprehensive approach to secondary education will produce graduates who understand the value of learning, who have mastered important skills and knowledge, who recognize the dividends of hard work, and who have meaningful choices about their future. This is how we will measure our success.

 

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy's lifetime of public service leaves an extraordinary legacy in health care, education and civil rights. He fought tirelessly for the needy, the disabled, and the less advantaged. His work touched the life of every American and created a safety net for the most vulnerable among us. On April 25, 2010, to honor his service and his memory, the Health Careers Academy was renamed to become the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers.

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	Marks Close - Term 2 Date: 1/27/2012
	Seniors - SAT and Subject Tests Date: 1/28/2012
	EMK Science Fair Date: 1/30/2012 Time: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Fenway Center
	MCAS Biology Retest Date: 2/1/2012
	MCAS Biology Retest Date: 2/2/2012
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