Today we launch Budget Challenge. For 10 weeks students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences will analyze contracts, pay bills, invest & even contact customer service to dispute charges! Thank you NEA for funding my Envision Equity Grant: tinyurl.com/3xrz63dz manhattanhs NYC CTE EconEdLink

See what Union Square Academy for Health Sciences has planned for #CivicsWeek 2025 with NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy Budget Challenge LiveOnNY Lauren Shields Democracy begins manhattanhs NYC Public Schools Jenna Ryall DemocracyReady NY. tinyurl.com/hxjj44zj

On Day 1 of #CivicsWeek @LiveOnNY visited Union Square Academy for Health Sciences to discuss voting, organ donation, Lauren’s Law, making NY the only state where organ donation is on the voter registration form. 8,000 NYers are waiting for a life saving organ. NYC CTE Jenna Ryall NYC Votes manhattanhs

On Day 2 of #CivicsWeek as our juniors Union Square Academy for Health Sciences take the SAT, our seniors track their progress towards earning a NYS Education Department Seal of Civic Readiness on their diploma. Learn more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1d_… Jenna Ryall manhattanhs DemocracyReady NY

On Day 3 of #CivicsWeek students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences shared the results of their school food survey w/ classmates & manhattanhs NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy staff. Their action civics project to reduce school food waste won the overall class change maker award at NY Civics Day New York City Bar Jenna Ryall

On Day 4 of #CivicsWeek students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences complete a tax return manually. Students are surprised that adults are scared to prepare their own return. Perhaps bc they didn’t learn this skill in school: tinyurl.com/46unfr8f manhattanhs Jenna Ryall NYC CTE Budget Challenge

On Day 5 of #CivicsWeek students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences visited LiveOnNY’s headquarters to submit completed organ donor registration forms & learn about the medical side of organ donation. We also reconnected with Lauren Shields namesake of #LaurensLaw Jenna Ryall manhattanhs NYC CTE

Thrilled that my class’ project to create podcasts about community issues has received ⁦Jenna Ryall⁩ accreditation to earn students NYS Education Department Civic Seals & is now being shared with ⁦NYC Public Schools⁩ thanks to our partner ⁦DoSomething⁩ dosomething.org/dosomething-to…

My students activism to make bathrooms Union Square Academy for Health Sciences sustainable & beautiful is on the New York City Council District 2 Participatory Budgeting Ballot! If you live, work, attend school in D2 please consider voting for it: rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/ NYC Council Member Carlina Rivera manhattanhs Jenna Ryall

My class project to create podcasts about community issues & launch new action civics projects of students’ choosing is being shared today at the National Service Learning Conference NYLC by our partner DoSomething manhattanhs Jenna Ryall Generation Citizen DemocracyReady NY

I am so proud of the NYC Public Schools students, teachers and administration involved in this week’s episode of Chalkbeat New York’s PS Weekly Podcast. Listen to it here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p-s…

We did it! Bathroom upgrades Union Square Academy for Health Sciences will be funded & implemented with District 2 Participatory Budgeting funding! Jenna Ryall manhattanhs

I am so proud of my students who submitted #MyImpactChallenge projects Bill of Rights Institute: billofrightsinstitute.org/my-impact-chal…. Students need to take action to improve their communities and make connections to the US Constitution Jenna Ryall manhattanhs Union Square Academy for Health Sciences

I am so proud of my students who submitted Police Commissioner for a Day essays to NYPD Chief of Transit about how to combat subway surfing. Students need to take action to improve their communities and make connections to the US Constitution Jenna Ryall manhattanhs Union Square Academy for Health Sciences

I am so proud of my students who created a Redesign of The US Citizenship Exam USCIS for The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Students need to take action to improve their communities & make connections to the Constitution Jenna Ryall manhattanhs Union Square Academy for Health Sciences DemocracyReady NY

I am so proud of my students that submitted their final projects to We The Future Constituting America. Students need opportunities to extend learning beyond the classroom & share their connections to The Constitution Jenna Ryall manhattanhs ⁦DemocracyReady NY⁩

Today students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences completed Budget Challenge. For the last 10 weeks students analyzed contracts, paid bills, invested & even contact customer service to dispute charges! Thank you The NEA Foundation for funding my grant: tinyurl.com/3xrz63dz manhattanhs NYC CTE EconEdLink

My students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences received the Class Changemaker Award at Civics Day for educating their peers about truths & falsehoods surrounding organ donation, increasing registration rates as students preregister to vote manhattanhs LiveOnNY Jenna Ryall New York City Bar

So proud of my students Union Square Academy for Health Sciences who won this essay contest. They were celebrated and spent time with a cop from their neighborhood precinct

Today I am learning all about the history of Washington Square Park with the The Bowery Boys Podcast & Washington Square Park Conservancy. It was used as a potter’s field and contained thousands of bodies. It is also the location of the “Hangman’s Elm” the oldest tree in Manhattan.