HARDWICK – Area school board members and legislators were well-representated at a forum led by members of the three Hardwick school boards that was billed as a community conversation about Vermont’s Act 73 school redistricting legislation, last Wednesday in the Jeudevine Memorial Library. Board members shared what they know about[Read More…]
Education
HU’s HUGS Club awarded $10,000 grant
HARDWICK – Hazen Union High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), known as the HUGS Club, has been awarded a $10,000 Changemakers grant from the It Gets Better Project to support a student-led initiative: a two-day regional queer youth dance and summit.The Hazen Union HUGS Club is a community-centered club focused on[Read More…]
Hazen students attend, comment on school redistricting forum
HARDWICK – At 8:02 p.m., Wednesday, October 29 in the Jeudevine Library, Hazen Union Student Council President Sadie Gann discussed impacts of the state’s redistricting bill after a community meeting organized by Hardwick’s school district representatives. The bill would see a major shift in school administration, and many predict it[Read More…]
Students harvest seeds for planting
HARDWICK – In October, first-graders from Hardwick Elementary School met with high school students from Hazen’s Dare to Be Me class at Atkins Field. There, Reeve Basom and Bethany Dunbar from the Center for an Agricultural Economy welcomed them for a morning of riparian seed conservation activities with community partner[Read More…]
WOW Wednesday has middle-schoolers learning outdoors
CRAFTSBURY — Craftsbury Middle School students in grades six to eight leave the classroom each Wednesday for the WOW (With Out Walls) program. Vermont becomes a classroom every Wednesday as they have picked blueberries, gone rock climbing and visited the shores of Lake Champlain. All 59 middle-schoolers made the 1.6[Read More…]
Interim school principal hired
CABOT – Superintendent Matt Foster recommended Steve Owens be hired as interim principal for this school year at a special meeting of the Cabot School District Board of Directors, October 20. Board members then authorized Foster to hire Owens at .6 full time equivalent. Cabot School Board Vice-Chair Ellen Cairns[Read More…]
New area teachers
Petition forcing vote to cut upper grades at Danville School could create public high school desert
DANVILLE – Danville residents are poised to vote in December on whether to shutter its high school grades at the Danville School and instead pay tuition for students to attend other schools, following a petition submitted to the school board recently. The petition has set the district on a collision[Read More…]
New Craftsbury & Wolcott School Staff
Lockhart Named Vermont Art Teacher of the Year
HARDWICK – Hazen Union School art teacher James Lockhart has been named the Vermont Art Teacher of the Year by the Vermont Art Educators Association (VAEA), recognizing his 28 years of dedication to art education at Hazen Union and his lasting impact on students’ creativity and confidence. Lockhart was surprised[Read More…]
Act 73 Special Education Delivery Report released
MONTPELIER – The Agency of Education released a Special Education Report, which identifies strengths, challenges and opportunities in the delivery of services to students with disabilities. The report is an important part of the Agency’s ongoing strategic planning process and a key step in implementing Act 73, the state’s education[Read More…]
Goddard College alumni reunion, Oct, 10-13
PLAINFIELD – A reunion of Goddard College alumni will be held October 10 to October 13 on the former campus, organized by Save Goddard College. The reunion is the result of a request from Goddard alumni, including Alex Rodriguez and Joe McIntyre. Reunion plans include poetry, music, Wheelz of Steel,[Read More…]
