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The Connecticut Tigers performing at the Music & Arts Conference at Western Connecticut State University (March 29, 2014).

The Connecticut Tigers performing at a Winter Guard International event at Monmouth College in New Jersey (March 23, 2014).

The Connecticut Tigers Winter Guard is a team of special needs performers from towns throughout Connecticut who have a passion for the activity and a love of performance.  The group is funded by ACES along with donations from companies that supply band and winter guard teams, McCormick’s and Algy.

Every Monday evening, from early January through the end of the Guard season, thirty-four people gather to share their skills, their enthusiasm, and their dreams.This show is a culmination of these evenings, where “disabilities” are transformed into “abilities”.

For additional information on the Connecticut Tigers, go to www.cttigers.org.

by Laura C. Cannon ◊ Apr 04, 2014

Honor Habet Onus, or “With Honor Comes Responsibility,” is the motto of the South Central Area Superintendents’ Association. That group recently bestowed honors on outstanding students at SCASA’s annual Student Award Luncheon.  Eighteen districts took part in the event, March 19, at the Laurel View Country Club in Hamden.

Students are nominated by their superintendent or other administrator.  Awards are based on community service and service to others; academic prowess (relative to ability); and leadership to the school community.

Among the students recognized by SCASA this year were two from the Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) Whitney High School North in Hamden. 

ACES Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) students Sophia O'Brien-Udry's and Jonathan Gelernter's essays are featured in New Haven Magazine's High School Confidential issue (March / April 2014).

Michael Corjulo, ACES Coordinator of School Health Services was selected as a Healthcare Hero / Educator of the Year by Business New Haven magazine. An article featuring Michael can be found on page 8 of the Healthcare Heroes supplement to New Haven  / Business New Haven magazines.

BY Allan Appel | MAR 10, 2014 2:11 PM

By Ebony Walmsley, New Haven Register
HAMDEN - Superheroes came to life in a school gymnasium Wednesday afternoon at Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School, but in a smaller version....

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Hillhouse High School hosted hundreds of special needs athletes in an event on Monday and the students from the West Haven Collaborative were one of the 15 schools participating!  Click logo below to view the SportzEdge segment;

Peggy Schoen, the school nurse for the K-8 Wintergreen Magnet School in Hamden, at her medicine cabinet.