Category Archives: York County

Four districts prepare for construction projects

Posted on May 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

The Maine Department of Education School Facilities Services team is working with four districts on a total of six proposed construction projects.

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Posted in Administrators, Dispatches, Facilities, Oxford County, Penobscot County, York County

Bonny Eagle eighth grader wins Maine Geographic Bee

Posted on April 17, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Archer Thomas, an eighth grader from Bonny Eagle Middle School, took top honors at the 2013 Maine state-level Geographic Bee held April 5 at the University of Maine Farmington. Thomas received $100 and the “Complete National Geographic on DVD,” and will represent Maine in the national finals of the Bee at National Geographic Society headquarters, May 20-22, 2013.

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Posted in Featured, Middle School, Social Studies, Students, York County

Innovative Maine Schools selected to present at conference

Posted on March 18, 2013 by | Leave a comment

The schools will share successful strategies with colleagues from across New England

AUGUSTA – Three Maine secondary schools—Falmouth High School, Sanford High School, and United Technologies Center (Bangor)—have been invited to represent the state at a regional conference on effective strategies for improving teaching and learning in the 21st century.

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Posted in Career & Technical, Cumberland County, Featured, High School, Penobscot County, Press Releases, Professional Development, Science & Technology, Students, York County

Maine students selected for United States Senate Youth Program

Posted on January 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Thanks to the United States Senate Youth Program for sharing the following press release with the Maine Department of Education for publication.

AUGUSTA—Senators Susan M. Collins and Angus King today announced the names of the two students who have been selected as delegates to the 51st Annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) that will be held March 9 to 16, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

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Posted in Cumberland County, High School, Press Releases, Social Studies, Students, York County

Sanford walks for suicide awareness

Posted on October 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Jobs for Maine's Graduates students at the Out of the Darkness walk in Sanford.

Sanford Jobs for Maine’s Graduates instructor Melissa Small (in blue) took three of her students to participate in the Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention. Students, from left, in red: Leighana Muise, Cassidy Bennett and Brooke Cote.

Thanks to Jobs for Maine’s Graduates for sharing the following article with the Maine DOE for publication.

Melissa Small, the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates specialist at Sanford High School, and three of her students participated in the Out of the Darkness Walk in Gowen Park in Sanford on Sept. 29. The event raised $1,197 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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From homelessness to happiness through Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program

Posted on September 26, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Missy Nolette-Bald head shotThanks to Jobs for Maine’s Graduates for sharing the following article with the Maine DOE for publication.

You might not think a teenager who earned good grades and had plenty of friends would have any trouble in high school, but Missy Nolette-Bald did. A 1995 alumnus of the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG) program at Biddeford High School, Nolette-Bald faced some major struggles at home.

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Posted in Dispatches, High School, Images, Special Populations, Students, York County

Teacher of the Year finalists named

Posted on August 13, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Teacher of the Year finalist Kathy Bousquet

Finalist Kathy Bousquet, a second- and third-grade looping teacher at Central School in South Berwick.

Two elementary school teachers and one middle school special education teacher have been named the state finalists for the title of 2013 Maine Teacher of the Year.

The 2013 finalists are: Kathy Bousquet, a second- and third-grade looping teacher at Central School in South Berwick; Shannon Shanning, a seventh- and eighth-grade special education teacher at Whittier Middle School in Poland; and Beth Switzer, a fourth-grade teacher at Coastal Ridge Elementary School in York. Continue reading →

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Posted in Androscoggin County, Dispatches, Featured, Higher Ed, Images, Teachers, York County

York student explorers join global collaboration in Brazil

Posted on July 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment
York students Patty McMurray, Andrew Fitzgerald and Todd Brockelman (left to right) gather water quality data in a freshwater channel of the Pantanal.

York students Patty McMurray, Andrew Fitzgerald and Todd Brockelman (left to right) gather water quality data in a freshwater channel of the Pantanal, a region of Brazil.

York Middle School science teacher Jeff Wilford might annually explore the swampy wetlands of Brazil, but don’t mistake him for Indiana Jones. It’s research he wrestles, not anacondas.

Wilford admits he’s not much of an adventurer, but when the opportunity arose to partner with Earthwatch and the National Geographic Education Foundation to travel with a team of educators to the Pantanal region of Brazil in 2003, Wilford dusted off his pith helmet.

Since 2006, Wilford has returned to explore the Pantanal each summer with students from York High School.

“We wanted to give students a real dose of what it means to be a biologist in a remote and challenged region of the world,” Wilford explained. “As well, we have strived to create an unmatched cultural experience.”

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Students serious about recycling at Horace Mitchell

Posted on June 26, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Horace Mitchell Primary kindergarten students (from left to right) Paeton Brown, Carolyn Carven and Olivia Kenney sort their trash as part of a student-driven recycling effort.

Horace Mitchell Primary kindergarten students (from left to right) Paeton Brown, Carolyn Carven and Olivia Kenney sort their trash as part of a student-driven recycling effort.

Imagine trying to teach over 100 kindergarten students how to recycle. At the Horace Mitchell Primary School in Kittery, students have taken charge of their recycling program in a major way, and they are learning how to be good stewards to the environment in the process.

This year, third grade students wrote and presented proposals to Principal David Foster about why they wanted to serve on a school-wide “Green Team.” Upon student selection, the group began planning strategies to make the school “greener.”

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Posted in Dispatches, Elementary School, Featured, News & Views, Students, York County

Schools triumph in nutrition challenge

Posted on May 31, 2012 by | 1 Comment
Kittery schools receive one of the nation's highest nutrition awards from the USDA's HealthierUS School Challenge.

Kittery students, food service staff and administrators receive one of the nation’s highest nutrition awards from the USDA’s HealthierUS School Challenge.

Seven schools in four districts received one of the nation’s highest nutrition awards for their achievements in the HealthierUS School Challenge last week.

John Magnarelli, USDA’s top regional school lunch official, presented students, administrators and food service staff with plaques and banners at schools in Kittery, York, Wells-Ogunquit CSD and MSAD 72.

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Posted in Dispatches, Elementary School, Health, Health & Physical Ed, News & Views, Nutrition, York County