Pittsfield Schools Closed through Friday, April 3 — March 19 School Board Meeting Cancelled

Section H – Table of Contents

The PMHS cafeteria is usually empty on Saturday mornings, but a good 50 people gathered there from 10 am –12 pm on February 16th for the Good-to-Great Community Forum.  The phrase “good-to-great,” made famous by the pioneering management expert Jim Collins, is a way of thinking about how to move an organization from average to…

The Pittsfield Wellness Coalition held its first meeting on November 12, with twenty-three community members and school district educators in attendance.  The coalition met as a follow-up to the Chris Herren school and community presentations in September on the topic of addiction. During the meeting, guest Annika Stanley-Smith, substance misuse prevention coordinator with the Capital…

For several years, Pittsfield Elementary School (PES) has been identified by the New Hampshire Department of Education as a “focus school.”  This has meant that the Department has calculated that the “achievement gap” between subgroups of students (such as “economically disadvantaged” or “students with disabilities”) has been among the ten percent of schools with the…