Yesterday our Steel City Sophomores and Juniors attended the Indiana University Northwest Possibility Summit! Our students had the opportunity to hear from and meet the Re-imagine Gary Mayor Prince, meet representatives from post secondary institutions and tour the IUN Campus! 🎓❤️ A few of our brilliant students even went home with a few prizes! 🔥 #WeAreSteelCityStrong #TransformativeExperiences
🚨 This week Officers, Lt. Farrow and Sgt. Flores came to visit from the Gary Police Department to discuss the career path of a CSI agent with our Steel City Students 💙
Their team provided so much insight to our students on the "behind the scenes" side of crime scene investigation, as well as the opportunity to see so much of their special equipment👮🏽♀️ Thank you to our School Resource Officer- Officer Kirk- for making this connection to ensure our students had this special experience! 💙 #SafetyHumanConnectionLearning #GaryIndiana 🚨🚔
We are so grateful for an incredible donation from the Enchanted Backpack that filled our cafeteria with school and personal supplies for our students, families and staff! 📝 Our staff felt like it was Christmas this morning as they shopped for additional supplies and gifts for their students, as our Culture Team created care packages for multiple families! It TRULY does take a village and are so appreciative of the community support for our kids, families and staff! 💙 🤝 #WeAreSteelCityStrong #CommunitySchool
Today marks National Bus Driver Appreciation Day 🚌 We are so grateful to partner with Incandescent Transportation Solutions and work with a phenomenal team of bus drivers. These reliable, remarkable humans ensure our students arrive to school and home safely each day while building meaningful relationships with our students 🔥 As a small token of our appreciation, our Paintbrush Playground students led by Mr. Gill and Ms. Harrell, painted a canvas to deliver to them at arrival this morning! 🎨 Thank you for all that you do for our students each and every day! #ItTakesaVillage #WeAreSteelCity #Gratitude
Steel City Parents: Every Wednesday we will provide you with information focusing on attendance. This week we are focusing on how our parents can assist us. If you have any attendance questions, please email attendance@steelcityacademy.org. #ShowingUpMattersForREAL
At Steel City we deeply believe in providing all of our students quality, grade level instruction AND educational experiences! 🎓 🧑🏾🔬 👩🏽🔬
Thanks to the incredible Mrs. Combs for writing a STEM Acceleration Grant for new lab equipment AND Ms. Brown for her engaging lab planning and execution🔥 As a result of their hard work, our High School Biology students are wearing their full lab outfits and engaging in inquiry based science labs to study the effects of fertilizer on algae! Through multiple lab experiences, our students are now comparing the productivity of a culture when nutrients are abundant 🧫 #GaryIndiana #WeAreSteelCityStrong
Steel City works hard to secure each of our student's education by offering small group intervention time. Our first graders are learning the method of decoding sounds, which will further improve students' reading skills by exercising their letter-sound relationships ✨ Shout out to our first-grade #team for all the hard work and dedication to keeping our little ones on the right path 👣! #SchoolBuiltonCoreValues 👏🔥
With every passing game, our Steel City Flames basketball program is growing in their skill and coming together as a team 🏀🔥💙 We are so proud to see the noticeable improvements as our coaches and players put it all out there on the court until the very last second of the game! 🗣️
Check out our boys, girls and coaches who embody the purpose and passion of Steel City 🏀💙 #WeAreSteelCityStrong
Steel City Students and Staff- Mark Your Calendars 📢🗓️
Next week will be Black History Month Spirit Week🔥✊🏽 Get those outfits ready! #WeAreSteelCityStrong
Steel City deeply believes in providing our students ACCESS to transformative experiences both within and outside of our community to broaden their world view AND deepen their pride in their community 🔥 🎓
This past week our 5th and 6th graders took a trip to the beautiful Gary Public Library to tour, learn about library systems and come home with some new books! 📚 We love to see our kids LOVE to read! 💙 #SmallMomentsBigFutures #WeAreSteelCityStrong #GaryIndiana
Our College and Career team has been working hard to ensure our future graduates receive every opportunity to learn about and access the post secondary pathway of their choosing: COLLEGE, TRADE OR THE MILITARY 📚🎓 This week our Steel City students visited the Ivy Tech East Chicago campus which offers trade programs AND associate and bachelor programs! We believe you can't BE what you can't SEE 💫💙💪#WeAreSteelCityStrong
As a reminder- In observance of President's Day, there is no school on Friday, February 17, and Monday, February 20!! 🇺🇸💙 Students will return on Tuesday, February 21! #SafetyHumanConnectionLearning
After years away from the hardwood, it has been so incredible to see our Steel City Middle School Boys Basketball team in action the past few weeks 🏀🔥💙
From their first game to now, it has been remarkable to see their growth, their GRIT and their increased mastery of fundamentals as a direct result of great coaching and HARD WORK 🗣️ Our boys racked up their first WIN last week in a hard fought battle and we are so so proud! 🏀💙
A special shout out to Coach Ford who so fiercely and passionately coaches his heart out each and every second 🔥🏀💙 #WeAreSteelCityStrong
After years away from the hardwood, it has been so incredible to see our Steel City Middle School Boys Basketball team in action the past few weeks 🏀🔥💙
From their first game to now, it has been remarkable to see their growth, their GRIT and their increased mastery of fundamentals as a direct result of great coaching and HARD WORK 🗣️ Our boys racked up their first WIN last week in a hard fought battle and we are so so proud! 🏀💙
A special shout out to Coach Ford who so fiercely and passionately coaches his heart out each and every second 🔥🏀💙 #WeAreSteelCityStrong
Gary STEM Signing Day is Back and nominations are due soon! Like signing days for athletes, STEM Signing Day celebrates Gary high school seniors with a scholarship, mentorship opportunity, and a ceremony in which students sign their STEM Letters of Intent alongside their parents, school administrators, elected officials, and business and community leaders! 🎓
Several of our Steel City Class of 2022 were recognized and highlighted for this incredible honor! They continue to excel at college as they pursue their STEM careers 🧑🏾🔬 👩🏽🔬
Class of 2023- don't forget to connect with Ms. Smith by February 28th if you are interested in being nominated! #WeAreSteelCityStrong💙🔥
It is great to witness all the #Joy and smiles the Valentine's Day holiday has brought to our students and staff! 😄 In an effort for everyone to feel the love students celebrated with Valentine's Day-themed lunches that included treats and more 💖✨💙 Thank you to all the staff that also celebrated with their students, making today unforgettable! #WeAreSteelCityStrong
We are making it our mission and goal to ensure each scholar receives an equitable education to be proficient in all subjects. We have been working diligently to strengthen each scholar's phonemic awareness and phonics skills to strengthen their literacy skills. Below are our first-grade little flames modeling our core value, #GRIT, practicing their independent reading skills 💙✨💪
We are loving our new Steel City Academy app! Have you downloaded it yet?🤳🏽 Stay up to date with our events calendar, contact staff, see great photos and access important documents! 💙
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Our Freshman Focus exhibits what working as a #TEAM looks like! Both classes combined, allowing students to work with one another to present presentations focusing on different cultures over a series of modules and aspects of these cultures they found to be most intriguing ✨📚👏🗯
After a three year hiatus, it was so incredible to see our Steel City Middle School Girls Basketball team in action last night 🏀🔥💙 After weeks of practice and a steep learning curve, they pulled out a great victory in their first game of the season 🗣️ A special shout out to Coach Douglas and Coach Johnson who stayed standing the entire game coaching our girls- passionately teaching them the game, instilling life lessons and continuing to inspire 🔥 We are so proud of our girls for their GRIT and commitment to working together for a common goal! 🏀💙 #WeAreSteelCityStrong
