District News

  • Understanding Bullying

    Pittsfield School Board Policy JICK defines bullying consistently with state law as follows: Bullying is hereby defined as a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which: Physically harms a pupil or damages the…

  • Post-Secondary Certificates?

    When talking about a student’s next-steps after high school, the conversations often starts with talk of college.  For some students, the talk stops there.  For a variety of reasons, many students are not interested in pursuing a two- or four-year degree at a college or university. Instead, many students feel ready to jump into the…

  • LD Awareness Month

    On October 26th, join us for hor d’oeuvres and drinks from 5pm to 7pm at The Foundry in Manchester, NH. We will have a short program at 6pm to highlight some of the amazing efforts in LD Awareness here in the Granite State. Please rsvp at this link. More details are in the invitation below….

  • National Red Ribbon Week

    According to national statistics, children whose parents talk with them regularly about drug use are 42% less likely to use drugs than those whose parents don’t talk with them about drug use.  However, only about 25% of teens report having drug use conversations with their parents. Since 1985, the importance of having drug use conversations…

  • 41.1%

    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…

  • What’s New?

    Well, the new school year, new students, new families, new staff, new program offerings: lots of new things in our Pittsfield schools this year.  Here’s my Top 12 answers to the question What’s new in the schools this year: New Students and New Families. We welcome many new students and families to our Pittsfield Schools…