TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Little Red Schoolhouse Association open house-membership drive, Little Red Schoolhouse--Brockton High School, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Coffee, tea and refreshments.
Learn about the non-profit Little Red Schoolhouse Association and how it supports education in Brockton.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
K--12 MEPA Testing through 3/16
Parents’ Academy--ADHD & Executive Function Workshop, George School 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Parents’ Academy--Make Way for Literacy for the Infant/Toddler Group Workshop, Arnone School 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Arnone: Field Trip for Grade 5 to Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, During School.
East: School Improvement Council Meeting, Room 130, 5:30 p.m.
East: P.A.C. Meeting, Room 130, 6:15 p.m.
Gilmore: Dr. Seuss Celebration. During School
Hancock: Big Ryan’s Tall Tales for K and Gr. 1, Café 9:30 & 10:15 a.m.
Kennedy: School Improvement Council Meeting, Conference Room, 6 p.m.
Kennedy: P.A.C. Meeting, Café 7 p.m.
North: K.T.A. Club Art & Poetry Contest through 3/30
North: K.T.A. Club Anti-Bullying Campaign through 3/30
Russell: White Ribbon Campaign running through 3/12
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Parents’ Academy Morning Workshop--Dr. Seuss Literacy Celebration, Gilmore Early Childhood Center 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Angelo: Student of the Month Breakfast, Café, 9 a.m.
Arnone: Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration, During School
George: Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration, Café, 6:30 p.m.
Hancock: MADD Dance for Grades 3, 4 and 5. 6--7:30 p.m.
Huntington: Field Trip for Grade 5 to Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton. During School
Raymond: Spring class and individual picture day, During School
Raymond: Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration, During School
South: Spring Picture Day, During School
MONDAY, MARCH 5
Registration for Kindergarten September 2012 Assignments begin
J - Q: (Last letter of parents last name) March 5th – March 23rd
School Registration Center 43 Crescent Street Brockton
Monday--Friday 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays Only 5 to 7 p.m.
Baker: Pennies for Pasta Fundraiser through 3/23, During School
Hancock: P.T.A. Meeting, Library, 6:30 p.m.
Plouffe: Pennies for Patients fundraiser through 3/9, During School
Plouffe: P.A.C. Meeting, Café, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
THIS WEEK IN BROCKTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Tuesday, February 14: Brockton School Committee meeting
7 p.m., Brockton High School Little Theatre. Wednesday - February 15, 2012
- SEPAC
Workshop: Transition Planning during High School
Parents' Academy Workshop: "Healthy Cooking on a Budget Nutrition Workshop"
- 6 to 8 p.m.
Arnone School - 135 Belmont Street, Brockton, MAHealthy Cooking on a Budget Nutrition WorkshopPresenter: UMASS Extension Nutritionist Andrea Gulezian
All Parent Academy workshops are free to Brockton parents
Free childcare is available.
- 9 to 10:30 a.m.Location: Gilmore ECC - 150 Clinton Street, Brockton, MAParent & Child Literacy Activity
Presenter: Parent Engagement Specialist Jane Feroli
All Parent Academy workshops are free to Brockton parents
Free childcare is available. - Monday - February 20, 2012--WINTER RECESS BEGINS
Friday, February 10, 2012
Spellman Moves From Textbooks To iPads
BrocktonPost
BROCKTON--Cardinal Spellman High School plans to phase out text books, by initiating an Apple iPad program, for the 2012-2013 school year.
Cardinal Spellman is the first school, within the Archdiocese of Boston, to implement iPads as a learning too, school officials said in a prepared statement.
Spellman plans to begin using iBooks and etextbooks, which cost much less than traditional textbooks. Not all textbooks will be available as etextbooks this year but, Spellman anticipates those textbooks will be offered within the next few years.
“We are very excited and proud to be making this move. Dickens’ Great Expectations is still taught in many high schools. That is exactly what the school is looking for with the introduction of iPads for all students at Cardinal Spellman. We have great expectations,” said the high school's president John McEwan.
In coordination with Apple, Cardinal Spellman will equip each one of its students with an iPad.
Students will pay a small technology fee, making the iPad available for a fraction of the cost of purchasing it independently. Students will be issued their iPads during the summer.
Spellman will offer training sessions for students and their parents.
Teachers have already begun iPad training sessions. They received their iPads in December as part of a professional development course. They began iPad training, through Apple, in anticipation of making the iPad a major learning tool in Spellman’s daily curriculum. Other training programs will continue throughout the year in subject-specific areas. Teachers will be able to access their Promethean Boards from anywhere in their classroom and use the latest in apps to enhance their lesson plans.
Beginning in 2010, a special technology committee, comprised of parents, teachers, students, administrators and community members was formed by Spellman President McEwan.
The committee met to hear the latest information on the use of one-to-one technology in the classrooms. They looked at laptops, iPads and other new technology entering the market.
From those meetings, a number of pilot programs were instituted in the school.
The final recommendation from the committee was to go forward with a one-to-one program of iPads for all students and teachers.
McEwan is confident that the teachers and students will greatly benefit from this next step in technology. “It’s a giant step forward,” McEwan said.
Cardinal Spellman High School is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school serving students from 40 different communities on the South Shore.
BROCKTON--Cardinal Spellman High School plans to phase out text books, by initiating an Apple iPad program, for the 2012-2013 school year.
Cardinal Spellman is the first school, within the Archdiocese of Boston, to implement iPads as a learning too, school officials said in a prepared statement.
Spellman plans to begin using iBooks and etextbooks, which cost much less than traditional textbooks. Not all textbooks will be available as etextbooks this year but, Spellman anticipates those textbooks will be offered within the next few years.
“We are very excited and proud to be making this move. Dickens’ Great Expectations is still taught in many high schools. That is exactly what the school is looking for with the introduction of iPads for all students at Cardinal Spellman. We have great expectations,” said the high school's president John McEwan.
In coordination with Apple, Cardinal Spellman will equip each one of its students with an iPad.
Students will pay a small technology fee, making the iPad available for a fraction of the cost of purchasing it independently. Students will be issued their iPads during the summer.
Spellman will offer training sessions for students and their parents.
Teachers have already begun iPad training sessions. They received their iPads in December as part of a professional development course. They began iPad training, through Apple, in anticipation of making the iPad a major learning tool in Spellman’s daily curriculum. Other training programs will continue throughout the year in subject-specific areas. Teachers will be able to access their Promethean Boards from anywhere in their classroom and use the latest in apps to enhance their lesson plans.
Beginning in 2010, a special technology committee, comprised of parents, teachers, students, administrators and community members was formed by Spellman President McEwan.
The committee met to hear the latest information on the use of one-to-one technology in the classrooms. They looked at laptops, iPads and other new technology entering the market.
From those meetings, a number of pilot programs were instituted in the school.
The final recommendation from the committee was to go forward with a one-to-one program of iPads for all students and teachers.
McEwan is confident that the teachers and students will greatly benefit from this next step in technology. “It’s a giant step forward,” McEwan said.
Cardinal Spellman High School is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school serving students from 40 different communities on the South Shore.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Brockton Sports Supporters Watch Out For Scam
BROCKTON--Brockton school officials are warning residents and businesses not to fall for a scam where an Illinois company is allegedly sending bills and advertising brochures for a fictional Brockton High School sports calendar. <br />
“We are working with the Attorneys General in Illinois and Massachusetts to get this company to cease and desist,” said Superintendent of Schools Matthew H. Malone in a prepared statement. “It’s offensive that they are trying to capitalize on good businesses who support student athletes,” he said. <br />
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Officials said many businesses and high school sports boosters have received bills from a company called GCQ purportedly for their “business sponsoring an advertisement” in a fictional Brockton High School Sports Calendar.<br />
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The Brockton Public Schools and Brockton High School Athletic Department are not running any advertising campaigns or seeking donations for a calendar of any type, officials said. <br />
Those who receive the bills from GCQ, which ask for a $129 payment, should ignore them.
THIS WEEK IN BROCKTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
Davis: P.T.A. Meeting, Café 6 p.m.
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 2 Mrs. Holmes 9 a.m.
South: School Improvement Council Meeting Principal’s Office 5:30 p.m.
South: P.A.C. Meeting Café 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
Parents’ Academy Family Night at the Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street Brockton ~ 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Baker: School Stores Open During Lunches
Downey: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1 Ms. Williamson 1:15 p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26
Baker: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1 Mrs. Aveni 1:30 p.m.
Gilmore: Chinese New Year Celebration During School
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27
Registration for Grade 6 September 2012 Assignments end
Kennedy: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1 Mrs. Skinner 8:50 a.m.
Kennedy: Title One ~ Family Book Talk – Gr. 2 Mrs. Skinner 1:30 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
Early Release Day ~ Pre –K- 8 In-Service
Gilmore: NO P.M. Session ~ ½ Day Schedule
Monday, January 23, 2012
Recovery High School Celebrates Brockton Opening
By Lisa E. Crowley
BrocktonPost
BROCKTON—When Independence Academy celebrated its grand
opening and an alternative path of education for high school students suffering
from alcohol and drug addiction, among those in the crowd was 21-year-old West
Bridgewater resident Ashley McDonnell whose battle with addiction began at Taunton High
School when she was 14.
“I think it’s a great idea. I wish I had this option. I
never knew there was a way out,” McDonnell said Thursday night during the grand
opening at the recover high school’s location at 460 Belmont St. in
Brockton. “I never would have been able
to become sober surrounded by all of the same people doing the same things,”
she said.
Young adults like Ashley McDonnell are exactly why officials
at North River Collaborative and Brockton Public Schools got together almost 2
years ago to gain support for the idea of opening the state’s fourth so-called
“recovery high school” for teenagers suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.
The other specialized high schools are located in Boston,
Beverly and Springfield, and until Independence Academy opened its doors in
Brockton in December, there was no such option for high school-aged students to
continue high school separated from the friends who had been a part of their
addictive behavior and lifestyle in the first place.
Independence Academy will serve students in Southeastern
Massachusetts from Quincy to Provincetown to Dighton-Rehobeth.
The school opened its doors with one student in early
December and has since grown to three students and Principal Richard Melillo
expects that number to be 10 in February.
The school has a capacity of 50 students.
The school has a capacity of 50 students.
“We are getting a steady stream of prospective students and
we are going through the referral process, but we expect more to come on soon,”
said Melillo.
Melillo, who cut his
teeth working with troubled youth as a counselor, program specialist and
supervisor of two mult-service residential facilities in greater Los Angeles,
knows too well that teenagers are fighting a losing battle with addiction when
they return to high school and the friends they began their addictions with.
“In more than 20 years of education this is the best thing
that I have done,” said Melillo.
The grand opening was held Thursday, Jan. 19 to celebrate
the school’s nearly two months of operation and to host an open house to celebrate the
work by a coalition of educational and service organizations from the
surrounding area to bring such a high school to the South Shore.
Joanne Haley-Sullivan, executive director of North River
Collaborative, which will oversee the new high school, said the school will
give teenagers who want to be a sober a much better shot at success.
“When they come out of treatment—where do they go? Back to
where it all began,” she said while more than 75 school and city officials,
parents, and others who attended the 5 to 7 p.m. open house looked through the
brightly painted classrooms boasting state-of-the-art computer equipment.
During the morning open house nearly 200 state and local
officials attended, including Mayor Linda Balzotti, Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray,
and Congressman Stephen F. Lynch.
The school has numerous admission requirements, including
students have verifiable proof they have been sober for at least 30 days or a
commitment to attend sobriety counseling. Students can be between the ages of
14 and 21.
Each student who attends the school receives an individual
recovery plan, and along with studying English, math, science, history and all
of the other MCAS required core subjects, students receive addiction counseling
and health and wellness training that goes above and beyond the average high
school student experience.
Math teacher Janet Braggs, a veteran of the financial
services industry, said the goal of the school is to end one cycle of drug and
alcohol abuse and offer young addicts in their teens a chance to get straight
and graduate.
“Try being an addict at 35 years old without a high school
education…what’s that person going to do? What’s their future? I’m excited to
help these kids reach their potential,” Braggs said.
Monday, January 9, 2012
THIS WEEK IN BROCKTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MONDAY, JANUARY 9
Registration for Grade 6 September 2012 Assignments begin
Brookfield: P.T.O. Meeting. Café, 6:30 p.m.
Hancock: P.T.A. Meeting. Library, 6:30 p.m.
Gilmore: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6 p.m.
North: Blue Dog Shelter Blanket Collection runs through 1/13. Main Office.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10
Angelo: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6 p.m.
Arnone: P.A.C. Meeting. Teachers Lounge, 6 p.m.
Davis: Title One ~ Book Talk Pizza – Gr. 4 - Ms. Amber, 10:30 a.m.
George: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6:30 p.m.
Huntington: Citizen of the Month Awards. During School
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11
Community Schools Advisory Board Meeting. B.H.S. Green IRC, 7 p.m.
Angelo: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 9:15 p.m.
Baker: School Stores Open During Lunches
Downey: Title One ~ Bingo for Books. Café, 6:15 p.m.
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 3 Ms. Lange 1:15 p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12
B.P.S. 6th Grade Registration Informational Meeting
South Middle School 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. or 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
Baker: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1 Mrs. Fischer 1:30 p.m.
Baker: P.T.A. Meeting. Community Room, 7 p.m.
Downey: Anti-Bullying Magic Show Small Gym During School
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 2, 2-Way 9 a.m.
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1, 2-Way 1:15 p.m.
George: P.T.A. sponsored Family Zumba Night. Café, 5:30 p.m.
Raymond: Student of the Month Assembly. During School
MONDAY, JANUARY 16
NO SCHOOL ~ Martin Luther King Day
Registration for Grade 6 September 2012 Assignments begin
Brookfield: P.T.O. Meeting. Café, 6:30 p.m.
Hancock: P.T.A. Meeting. Library, 6:30 p.m.
Gilmore: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6 p.m.
North: Blue Dog Shelter Blanket Collection runs through 1/13. Main Office.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10
Angelo: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6 p.m.
Arnone: P.A.C. Meeting. Teachers Lounge, 6 p.m.
Davis: Title One ~ Book Talk Pizza – Gr. 4 - Ms. Amber, 10:30 a.m.
George: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 6:30 p.m.
Huntington: Citizen of the Month Awards. During School
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11
Community Schools Advisory Board Meeting. B.H.S. Green IRC, 7 p.m.
Angelo: P.T.A. Meeting. Café, 9:15 p.m.
Baker: School Stores Open During Lunches
Downey: Title One ~ Bingo for Books. Café, 6:15 p.m.
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 3 Ms. Lange 1:15 p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12
B.P.S. 6th Grade Registration Informational Meeting
South Middle School 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. or 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
Baker: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1 Mrs. Fischer 1:30 p.m.
Baker: P.T.A. Meeting. Community Room, 7 p.m.
Downey: Anti-Bullying Magic Show Small Gym During School
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 2, 2-Way 9 a.m.
George: Title One ~ Family Book Bag – Gr. 1, 2-Way 1:15 p.m.
George: P.T.A. sponsored Family Zumba Night. Café, 5:30 p.m.
Raymond: Student of the Month Assembly. During School
MONDAY, JANUARY 16
NO SCHOOL ~ Martin Luther King Day
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