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Press Clippings: The Lippman School in the News
4/21/2016
April 18, 2016
NPR Radio affiliate, WKSU-FM, previewed our Cyber Safety program, and interviewed guest speaker, Portage County CIO, Brian Kelley. 
April 14, 2016
Akron radio station WAKR-AM featured teacher Matt Russ and Portage County CIO Brian Kelley during an interview on the Ray Horner morning show. The two appeared to talk about our Cyber Safety @ Home & School event, which was about keeping kids safe online.
April 13, 2016
Cyber Safety @ Home and School program highlighted in Akron Beacon Journal Events section.
April 5, 2016
The Cleveland Jewish News, and The West Side Leader/Akron.com highlighted our "Cyber Safety @ Home & School" program, designed to help children stay safe on the internet.
March 31, 2016 
The Westside Leader/Akron.com, carried a picture of professional dancer Brian Murphy just about to take a bow with our 3rd and 4th grade students, after their dance performance at the Akron Art Museum on March 17.
February 18, 2016
The Westside Leader/Akron.com ran a story about a group of teachers from China who visited our school in hopes of learning how to more effectively teach English as a second language.
November 11, 2015
Our innovative, entrepreneurial coffee/charity curriculum made headlines in the Akron Legal News, with a story about how University of Akron Law students talked to our 5th and 6th grade students about copyright, trademark, and other issues related to starting a business. 
October 16. 2015 
Story about Lippman and Northern Cheyenne students making tipis in The Medina Gazette.
October 13, 2015
Noted Onondaga tribe artist, Peter Jones, Burt Medicine Bull, and Sam Chestnut, were interviewed on WAKR Radio about our Evening of Native American Arts, which took place that evening. Click here to view a video clip from interview.
October 9, 2015
Story about our Evening of Native American Arts, in the Cleveland Jewish News. 
October 8, 2015
Front page story in the West Side Leader about Native American Sculptor, Peter Jones, coming to Akron for our Evening of Native American Arts, Oct. 13, 2015
August 7, 2015 
An interview with our Head of School, Sam Chestnut, was featured in a "Back to School" story published by The Cleveland Jewish News
August 6, 2015
Our digital storytelling project with the Northern Cheyenne was featured in the Westside Leader this week. 
July 24, 2015
WKSU reporter Vivian Goodman did a storyabout the day in May when our students joined with students from the Northern Cheyenne Nation to bake bread. 
June 1, 2015
Our Lara Downes benefit concert was also highlighted on Clevelandclassical.com,  Patch.com,  Eventful.com, Summitcountycalendar.com, Ohio.com, and in The Akron Beacon Journal (print edition). She was also interviewed on Cleveland's classical radio station, WCLV. Click here to listen.
May 29, 2015
Classical pianist, Lara Downes, talked to The Cleveland Jewish News about her benefit concert for our school, Monday June 1, 2015. 
May 28, 2015
Our Northern Cheyenne bonfire and drum circle at Firestone Metro Park on May 21, 2015 was spotlighted in The Westside Leader. 
May 21, 2015
The Lippman school's unique cultural exchange program with the Northern Cheyenne Nation is featured on the Akron area's NPR radio affiliate,  89.5 WKSU FM
April 15, 2015
The Lippman School plants 50 trees in Akron City Parks, in honor of 50th Anniversary. Story on WAKR Radio website, on the front page of the Westside Leader, and in The Cleveland Jewish News.
April 9, 2015
Story noting that The Lippman School received an Entrepreneurship grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation appears in The Westside Leader
March 19, 2015
50th Anniversary Celebration spotlighted in The Cleveland Jewish News. 
February 26, 2015
Story about The Lippman School's 50th Anniversary Celebration in The Westside Leader
February-March, 2015
Stories about Lippman middle school students taking a "Tech Timeout" in the Westside Leader, WAKR Radio, WOIO TV, Channel 19, Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine, The Akron Beacon Journal, and WKSU Radio.
October 28, 2014
Slingshot Fund recognizes school for for innovative Northern Cheyenne cultural exchange program. Story in Cleveland Jewish News and in the Westside Leader.
August 26, 2015
Digital storytelling project also makes headlines in Eschoolnews.com.
July 31, 2014
Digital storytelling project linking The Lippman School and the Northern Cheyenne Nation highlighted in The Westside Leader.
July 16, 2014
Story about The Lippman School Digital Storytelling project with the Northern Cheyenne Nation in The Cleveland Jewish News
June 12, 2014
Microsoft Lead Programmer Arik Cohen interviewed on WAKR Radio. Click here to listen.
June 2, 2014
Interview with Head of School Sam Chestnut and Teacher Matt Russ, about our cultural exchange program with the Northern Cheyenne Nation, and our 7th and 8th grade class trip to Montana on WAKR Radio. Click here to listen.
May 20, 2014
Lippman Blend Coffee story in The Akron Legal News
April 10, 2014
Lippman Blend Coffee story in The Cleveland Jewish News.
March 31, 2014
Lippman Blend Coffee fundraiser spotlighted in  The Akron Beacon Journal.
Feb. 4, 2014
Head of School Sam Chestnut discusses Cheyenne Cultural exchange program on WAKR Radio.


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