Our Mission at Reaching Heights
We mobilize community resources to foster highly valued public schools that provide all Cleveland Heights-University Heights students a successful education.
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Sign Up For Heights Summer Music Camp, June 18-23. Space is Limited!
 Time is running out to enroll your elementary or middle school instrumental music student to be part of Heights Summer Music Camp. This fun-filled week, June 18-23, at Wiley Middle School, gives campers a great enrichment opportunity. Campers will perform in an orchestra and chamber groups, learn music theory, and participate in a jazz or guitar workshop, or the Heights Summer Music Camp Chorus. Cleveland Heights-University Heights music faculty, community musicians, and college and high school students provide individualized support and expert coaching and instruction. Campers make great music, and have fun with their new friends from across the CH-UH school district. For more information and to apply, click here. All are invited to the finale concert Saturday, April 23 at 10:30 a.m. in the Wiley auditorium.
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Tutors Needed for Student-Athletes at Monticello Middle School You can help our Monticello Middle School student-athletes achieve and sustain academic success by volunteering as an after-school tutor from 3-4 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Fridays, starting immediately. Reaching Heights is working with the Heights Athletic Department on middle school tutoring program, starting at Monticello, that will help students maintain academic eligibility to participate in sports (giving students an added incentive to improve their academic performance). If you can help or would like to learn more, contact Lisa Hunt at Reaching Heights.
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Reaching Heights, Go Public! Join Forces Reaching Heights is proud to announce that the "Go Public! Great Schools are Everybody's Business" initiative launched last year with a successful book drive, will continue its work as part of Reaching Heights, which has for more than two decades worked on behalf of excellent public education in Cleveland Heights and University Heights. "Adopting Go Public makes perfect sense, so that we can work as one organization on behalf of our common goals: great public schools that enjoy deep public support," said Patrick Mullen, Reaching Heights executive director. Joan Spoerl was inspired to start Go Public after reading How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance, by Jacqueline Edelberg and Susan Kurland. Edelberg spoke in Cleveland Heights last year. "This model extends an outline for thinking big and doing better, for more effectively mobilizing and organizing our community to support our schools and the students who attend them," said Spoerl. "I'm excited to be able to continue this work will as part of Reaching Heights, starting with a Pathfinders program that will bring happy and successful adults into our elementary schools to share some of their formative experiences with fifth grade students."
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Help Reduce Overreliance on
High-Stakes Testing
The Forum for Education and Democracy, with other national education, civil rights and parents groups, has launced a national petition calling on federal  and state policymakers to reduce standardized test mandates and base school accountability on multiple forms of measurement. Initial signers include the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Parents Across America, National Education Association, United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries, Advancement Project, National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest), Asian American Legal Defense Fund, the Forum for Education and Democracy. Other supporters include educators such as Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch as well as Reaching Heights and other community-based education groups in New York, Chicago and Charlotte. Groups and individuals concerned with the rapid increase in time, money and energy devoted to exams and the weight put on test results can sign the petition here.
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Get Your Tiger Nation Gear
 Cleveland Heights Alumni Foundation President Eric Silverman unveiled a new Tiger Nation logo at a recent CH-UH school board meeting. A wide variety of Heights apparel can be purchased at heightsgear.com. And you can support efforts to upgrade the Heights Girls' Softball field by purchasing TIger Nation license plate holders and wristbands. For more information, email Larry Sollisch by clicking here.
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Upcoming Events in the Heights:
 Poet Laureate Invitational - Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm, Heights Arts Gallary, 2175 Lee Rd. Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Cavana Faithwalker has invited the following fellow poets to join him in celebration of National Poetry Month in April: Kathleen Cerveny, Vince Robinson, Trina Jones, Tammi Powell, Phil Metres. Free. 216.371.3457 or heightsarts@heightsarts.org. More info at the Heights Writes blog.
Leadership Training for Community Groups - Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m.  to 3 p.m., Future Heights is holding a Neighborhood Leadership Training event for citizens and block club/neighborhood organizations on April 28, at Forest Hill Church, Presbyterian, as Chris McKee, and other members of the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, and Trevelle Harp, of the Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope, share their extensive knowledge about how to identify issues, recruit neighbors and take action at the neighborhood level. Learn more here and RSVP for this event here.
 A Benefit for Lake Erie Ink with Local Writers - Lake Erie Ink, a Cleveland Heights-base non-profit writing space for youth, welcomes local writers to a benefit reading this Sunday, April 28, 5-7 p.m. at the B-Side Lounge at the corner of Coventry Rd. and Euclid Heights Blvd. Be inspired and entertained by Dan Chaon, Ray McNiece, Katie Daley, and Lake Erie Ink teen writers. Admission fee of $20.00 includes appetizers, with a cash bar available. Lake Erie Ink, located in the former Coventry School building, provides creative expression opportunities and academic support to youth in the Greater Cleveland community.
 Your Garden Work Can Help Our Housing Stock - Home Repair Resource Center is holding its annual fundraiser in conjunction with Bremec on the Heights Garden Center, 13410 Cedar Rd. in Cleveland Heights. Bremec on the Heights will donate a portion of all purchases made through May 6, and, to benefit gardening enthusiasts, will offer free classes on Saturdays during the event: On April 28, Vegetable Gardens at 11 a.m. and Native Plant Gardens at 2 p.m.; on May 5, Tree Selection at 11 a.m. and Garden Hedges at 2 p.m. Call (216) 932-0039 to register. HRRC maintains and strengthens the houses of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to support the community's rich diversity. Vouchers to ensure that your purchase benefits HRRC are available here or at the registers at Bremec's.
 Heights Youth Theatre Presents Chicago - Directed by Nathan Motta and featuring CH-UH students in leading roles, Chicago interprets the story of Prohibition-era Chicago. Set in a 1920s speakeasy, Kander and Ebb's most famous score gives us Broadway jazz standards such as All That Jazz, Razzle Dazzle, Mr. Cellophane and the Cell Block Tango. May 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 & 20, all performances at 7 PM at Wiley Middle School. Tickets are $10 (Please note: The May 20 performance will be at Dobama Theatre and will be a special benefit performance. Tickets for the show and reception are $20). |
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