See you tomorrow, EWSD! 😊
Happy New Year, EWSD! 🥳🎉
Author and consultant, Kari Yates, visited six EWSD elementary schools to observe instruction and talk to students, teachers, and administrators to help strengthen current literacy instruction. 👍👍 https://bit.ly/3TucIJO
Angkith Pradhan and Luca Karki were recently named Vermont Presidential Scholars by the State of Vermont Agency of Education. The Vermont Presidential Scholars Program is a statewide recognition of student citizenship, and academic, artistic, and leadership excellence. 👏👏 https://bit.ly/41u9WWK 🏆
The #EWSD Board will next meet on Tue., January 2nd starting at 6:30 p.m. in the EHS Library. The full meeting will be available to watch on Facebook Live thanks to the Media Factory.
Agenda items for the meeting include:
* FY23 Independent Auditor’s Report
* FY24 Planning and Budgeting Guidance & Governance Investments
* Policy 4.1.6 Board self-monitoring of process and performance
To learn more about the EWSD Board, please visit: www.ewsd.org/schoolboard
EES kindergarten classes participated in the annual Alphabet Parade, where kindergarten students walked through EES singing songs they've learned while wearing headbands they created! The entire school also joined the hallways in support of the parade!🎶👏 https://bit.ly/488M6m6
ADL chorus and orchestra students performed their December Concert! 🎶
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The EHS Career Center invited former EHS students, who recently completed their first semester in college, to come speak to current high school students about their experience and what they've learned about college so far. 👏👏
❄️ There will be no school on Monday, December 25 through Monday, January 1 for Early Winter Break. School will resume on Tuesday, January 2. ❄️
Today marks the beginning of the Winter solstice. Happy first day of Winter! ❄️🧣🌨️⛄🛷⛸️🎿
Libby Smith, EHS Class of 1998 and graduate of the CTE, Engineering Program spoke to EHS student-athletes about how she performed at a high level in 2 sports, mental health, mental toughness, and time management. Libby was an outstanding 3-sport athlete at EHS, she went on to a standout career in basketball and golf at UVM and then earned a spot on the LPGA Tour. She was inducted into the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012 and the VPA Hall of Fame in 2007. After working as a golf pro in Vermont, she is now a golf pro in Jupiter, Florida.
The Heavenly Food Pantry, located at the First Congregational Church on Main Street in Essex Junction, will be open to families residing in Essex, Essex Junction, and Westford on Thursday, December 21, from 2 to 6 p.m. Families will be given a number when they arrive and registered beginning at 2 p.m., then allowed to select their food. A volunteer will greet and escort them around the pantry, allowing them to make selections of their choosing. After food is gathered, it will be weighed (information for pantry use only) and another volunteer will bring the food to the family’s vehicle. Shopping carts will be made available for those within walking distance of the pantry.
The pantry asks for proof of residence for each household in the form of a current utility bill with a physical address listed. In place of this, families may provide current correspondence from a government agency or other official mail. Identification for each household member may consist of a driver’s license, hospital card, insurance card, school-issued ID, social security ID, or birth certificate. As usual, there are no income requirements to visit the food pantry and a variety of food is available to everyone; however, additional food from the USDA is provided monthly to eligible families who fall below federally mandated guidelines. Families not able to attend the pantry may call the Church office at 878-5745 between 9 a.m. and noon today through Thursday to leave contact information (name, address, phone number, number of people in household) so delivery arrangements can be made. A follow-up call to complete registration will take place on Thursday morning.
Families are currently able to visit the pantry each time it is open the 2nd Monday of the month from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and the 4th Thursday of the month from 2-6 p.m. (except for November and December when it is the 3rd Thursday). The next food pantry distribution will occur on Monday, January 8, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
During Westford's hour of code, students programmed characters to dance, others explored using AI to move characters on a screen with their hand in the air in front of the screen and others programmed characters in a tag game. 🤖🤖
Due to standing water and flooding in our area, some local roads have been affected. Because of this, please expect possible delays for our afternoon bus routes. Some afterschool activities could also be affected. Please be sure to contact your school before the end of the day for the latest information.
💻 Hiawatha students were able to try many different programs as part of the Hour of Code events last week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7f4Z4iwLlg
EWSD Director of Equity & Inclusion and Co-Director of Student Support Services Erin Maguire recently spoke with the Essex Reporter to talk about what equity means and looks like in our schools. Read the full Q&A here: https://bit.ly/3TizRP9
Summit Street third graders participated in Hour of Code during Computer Science Education week by learning to program robots called Ozobots. Ozobots are line-following robots that move along the paths that students draw, as they recognize color patterns and execute code based upon the color sequences that students create.
Students learned general coding concepts such as algorithms, the exact order and details of programming, the process of problem-solving, and analyzing code to fix errors. Watch the students in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjm8njqdzPc
Real-world experiences while doing something you love … learn more about CTE! https://bit.ly/CTEatEWSD
