The drawing below was made by Alen Husic, an NHTI student who worked this winter with the PES Project Home Team. The drawing shows potential projects we might take on in coming years.
The next Project Home meeting is May 26.
As Pittsfield readers may know, we have been on a journey of redesign of our schools for several years; this work may be thought of as a reinvention of our schools to become more student-centered. This means that we are becoming more responsive than ever to individual student needs, strengths, and interests. One of the…
On Friday, April 24, PES teachers are hosting parent-teacher conferences and sharing third quarter report cards. Several teachers are hosting conferences prior to that date as well. Look for a letter from your student’s teacher to set up a conference date and time.
“Collegial Support and professional development in schools are unlikely to have any effect on improvement of practice or performance if they are not connected to a coherent set of goals that give direction and meaning to learning and collegiality.” — Dr. Richard Elmore, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003
Here you can find access to my Portaportal account. Portaportal acts as a bookmarking tool so that you may log on to important websites from any computer. I have created an account on www.portaportal.com so that people may utilize any of these resources. Resources include skill practice for students in literacy and math as well…
Note: Author Katie Bass is a second-grade classroom teacher, who also serves as PES’s Responsive Classroom Lead Teacher. She taught grade four for her first four years at PES. In looking back at my five years here at Pittsfield Elementary, I can easily say that I have come a long way in my communication with parents….
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