Learning more outside of the classroom than in

It’s a tired cliché: that teachers are so lucky because they have the summers “off.” The notion conjures images of educators lazing away the days and weeks in chaise lounges and hammocks while the rest of us slog through the summer in our cubicles and storefronts. In Pittsfield, nothing could be further from the truth….

When our high school students completed our most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey in the early spring of 2017, 41.1% said YES to the question Have you ever used an electronic vapor product? In the same survey, 27.2% of our high school students said YES to the question During the past 30 days, how many…

On the day after the 9/11 attacks, an executive for a New York advertising agency that included New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority as one of its clients wrote down an idea for a slogan that he hoped would save lives:  If You See Something, Say Something. It didn’t take long for our U.S. Department of…

In his most recent State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama applauded high school redesign efforts taking place around the country and encouraged districts to look to successful models for inspiration.  A few days later, Education Week, the national trade journal for educators, cited Pittsfield Middle High School as one of these models. Pittsfield…

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Thank you to the many Pittsfield citizens who participated in last week’s Deliberative Session, which was convened to discuss the proposed new collective bargaining agreement between the Education Association of Pittsfield (the teachers) and the Pittsfield School Board. Many opinions were expressed, representing a wide range of ideas; topics included the property tax rate, health…