All we could do for the mom who gave us everything is tell her how much we loved her and hope that somehow, she could hear us. On a day when we would usually shower her with gifts and take her out to lunch, my family huddled around our phones and tablets as the nurse showed her to us over video chat. This Mother’s Day, my mom was sedated and on a ventilator. Let’s think of them with wet eyes and a high heart. These are just some of the people who have been taken from us, even as they have left us much to remember them by. It’s not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be. That’s the goal of this list: to acknowledge the remarkable and joyful lives of some of those we have lost. Maybe we can be better at celebrating life even as we’re saddened by its loss. But we all, at one time or another, have reason to mourn. We have no roadmap for this new territory. It’s a book of large truths disguised as small ones: “I remember,” he writes, “those times of not knowing if you feel really happy or really sad. In his jubilant and revivifying memoir, I Remember, the artist and writer Joe Brainard tabulated all the little things that can come to shape how we think about life. There can always be at least a glimmer of joy in remembering things that people gave us while they were here. We also tested ourselves on the climbing wall, cargo net, ladder, zipline and the trapeze - we have a lot of brave students and teachers in our Summit family! For more pictures, visit our 2017-2018 photo gallery.But not even sorrow is one-dimensional. Thanks again to the wonderful Peekskill Education Foundation! For the third year since the start of Summit Academy, with a generous grant, they made it possible for us to travel to Ring Homestead on September 20 where we could enjoy team-building activities like the balance beans and the tire toss. Summit students also wrote notes of encouragement to the students in Texas.
Summit Academy students packed up donated supplies for a classroom at a Texas high school whose students had lost their homes to flooding. Summit students helped out with the Early Childhood Center halloween Parade! Summit students and staff went pink for breast cancer awareness! Summit's Thanksgiving feast has become a cherished tradition. Summit Academy held its own college fair! And the Holiday Feast is a big hit, also! Thanks to the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, artist Cey Adams came to work with Summit students to create a collage project in black and white. Summit Academy visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lake Compounce. Please visit our Photo Galleries to the left for more photos of the year and of our graduates. Margie Daniels heads up Summit Academy.Īt long last, graduation arrived! Congratulations to our 32 graduating seniors and applause for their hard work. You can learn more about us by clicking on the links to the left, and scrolling through the postings below. We are located on the ground floor of the Uriah Hill School, and in our spacious bright classrooms we are building a community of authentic learning. Summit Academy was founded in 2014 with the goal of helping every student find a pathway to graduation from Peekskill High School and to success in life. This September we celebrate the start of the fifth year of Summit Academy, an alternative learning program that is the educational home to 60+ Peekskill High School students. October 25, 2018: Summit joined in the Peekskill CSD spirit of pink out to support breast cancer research! Here are some of our students and staff! Please visit our Photo Galleries to enjoy our five great years.
We are so proud of all the students who came here and tried and worked hard we care about those who have graduated from Peekskill High School and those who still find their way. Summit Academy has been closed after five years.