Our Impact

Over the past few years, the PTSO has funded:

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Staff Training and Professional Development

• Art - metal working course for larger more complex metal fabrication

• English - "Keeping the wonder" course

• English - Social Emotional Learning courses: "The practice and power of vulnerability in the classroom", "Anxiety awareness: empowering students with health and hope" and "The culturally competent educator".

• English - "Game based strategies for language instruction" online course

• Fitness & Health - curriculum for "Drums alive" program (in partnership with WEF)

• Languages - Joint NADSFL/ACTFL conference for language curriculum leaders

• Languages - NECTFL conference - new trends and pedagogical approaches to teaching languages

• Math - "Escape the math classroom" conference

• Social Studies - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference (2 staff members)

• Social Studies - sheltered English immersion course (2 Staff Members)

• Social Studies - executive function conference

• Special Education - dyslexia course​

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Classroom Supples and Other Materials

• Administration - privacy panels and book stand for main office

• Art - frames for student work

• Bridge Program - books and journal subscriptions

• Social Studies - pocket Constitutions

• Special Education - metal rolling carts, daylight lamps for classroom use, classroom books, DivideWrite mobile whiteboard partition, board games for the Gateway program

• Fitness & health - 4 speakers for "Minding your Mind" 10th grade class

• Languages - instructions books

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Student Initiatives

• Academic Decathlon - student cram kits

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School Spirit/Comradery​

• Mariachi band for national hispanic month

• New England Scholastic Press Association Conference fees - for 13 students and 1 advisor

• Library - prizes for reading challenge