Learning Studios

Pittsfield Families, Today, our school staff worked to make the shift to remote learning.  As you can imagine, this is quite a change from our usual way of designing learning experiences for our students.  Below you’ll find a status report on this important work. Remote Instruction Plan.  Teachers worked today and will be working tomorrow…

Public Hearing Notice Two public hearings will take place on Thursday, December 3rd beginning at 5:40 p.m to accept unanticipated revenue from the CARES Act, and the SPSRF Fund regarding Coronavirus Relief.  Please see the attached notice for more information.

It is sometimes said that imitation is the highest form of flattery.  If that’s the case, then the Pittsfield NH School District has much to feel flattered by in recent months.  Since the beginning of the school year, the District has been host to visitors from across the country, all of them eager to know…

Below, please find links to three articles written by Emily Richmond, who is the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. Putting Students in Charge to Close the Achievement Gap Learning More Outside of the Classroom than In What happens when instead of suspensions, kids talk out their mistakes?

The Pittsfield School District proposed budget for the 2018-2019 school year reflects an increase of $517,461 and increases from the current year budget of $10,105,763 to $10,623,224 (an estimated tax rate increase of $1.50/thousand). While this is a greater than usual Pittsfield single-year increase, the ten-year increase (since 2008-2009) has been about 7%, or about half…

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…