Author: RCCA (RCCA )

Peer Coaching in P.E. Being coachable is a skill not everybody is born with, but here at Clemente students hone this ability by giving and receiving feedback as one of the Physical Education objectives. Students taking P.E. exercise more than just their bodies, getting the opportunity not only to be coached on Physical Education concepts,...

Sophomores Investigate Volcanoes and States of Matter This week Sophomore chemistry students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy were introduced to a new unit where they will study how the form of natural and human landscapes and resources are changed by transfer. They started the week off by investigating volcanoes that exist around the world and...

Freshman Students to Perform The Royale by Marco Ramirez at American Theater Company By: Christian Ramirez, Carla Ramirez-Hurtado, and Estephania Flores The freshman students are practicing and rehearsing a play call The Royale by Marco Ramirez. Ramirez is widely known for writing several episodes of Orange is the New Back, which airs on Netflix. The...

Marketing through College Algebra This week in College Algebra, students were introduced to markets. Students have been exploring the different types of markets that exist in the United States and around the world, and have also explored the efforts that go into making a market run. Students have been working this week on manipulating variables,...

Inspiration for Concentration This week the AP 2D Studio Art students took a field trip to investigate different artistic inspiration for their portfolios. The students had two different objectives to collect inspiration. First the students were tasked with photographing the environment in order to record inspirational imagery, but also to view art from contemporary artists...

Mathematical Modeling of Student Life For the last 4 weeks the juniors at Roberto Clemente have been gathering data on their everyday routines. The juniors gathered data from Jan 5th to Jan 19th about an activity that they do every day, such as: watching siblings, points scored in a pickup basketball game, and time spent...

Teachers Partner with Discovery Education On Saturday, January 31st, 19 of Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s amazing teachers became members of the Digital Leadership Corps (DLC) and began a professional development journey to transform their classrooms into the digital age while addressing the Common Core State Standards and the International Baccalaureate pedagogy. These 19 teachers have...

HOW IT FEELS TO BE A SENIOR AT THIS POINT IN THE YEAR!   By: Uquasia Brown, Senior @ Clemente High School I’ve known since 3rd grade that the year of 2014-15 would be my senior year of high school. Surprisingly, even back then I didn’t have any misconceptions or misguided notions about what the...

University Spotlight: Roosevelt University Spotlight by David Roman Roosevelt University is a private university based in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois that focuses its curriculum on the principles of social justice. Chicago classes are held within Roosevelt’s historic Auditorium Building, which is a few blocks from the famous Magnificent Mile. The Auditorium Building houses the Auditorium...

Sophomore Students Explore Real World Geometry Connections Sophomore geometry students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy have spent the last four weeks learning about mathematical proofs and the Pythagorean Theorem. This week, to better understand how these math concepts apply to the real world, students presented examples of right triangles in real life and explained how...