Category Archives: High School

The scoop at Yarmouth: Students step up to real-world challenge

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

When a company like Friendly’s struggles to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, desperate times often call for desperate measures.

Could students at Yarmouth High School help?

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Posted in Cumberland County, Featured, High School, Instruction, Students, Technology, Visual & Performing Arts

German teachers invited to Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Maine Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German is inviting German teachers to spend a week in Bar Harbor this summer developing their skills.

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Posted in Featured, Hancock County, High School, Higher Ed, Middle School, Teachers, World Languages

3 regional social studies workshops scheduled

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Three workshop sessions designed for middle- and high-school social studies teachers will help participants connect with other social studies teachers in their region and explore ways that the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies can support thinking and learning in their content area.

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Posted in Aroostook County, Featured, Franklin County, High School, Knox County, Middle School, Social Studies, Standards, Teachers

Falmouth, Cape students compete in national science challenges

Posted on May 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Teams from Cape Elizabeth and Falmouth high schools recently participated in national science competitions in Washington, D.C.

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Posted in Cumberland County, Featured, High School, Mathematics, Science & Technology, Students

Video: Google features Wells-Ogunquit in ‘Search Story’

Posted on May 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Google recently featured Wells High School junior Morgan Brewster and special education teacher Cheryl Oakes as part of its “Google Search Stories” series.

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Posted in Featured, High School, Special Programs, Students, Teachers, Technology, Video, York County

Photo: Deer Isle-Stonington High School Writing Center

Posted on April 25, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Three students give the thumbs up sign in the Deer Isle-Stonington High School Writing Center.

Deer Isle-Stonington High School students Emily Cormier, Ann Dunham, and Esther Adams help their peers strengthen their writing skills as founding tutors of the school's new Writing Center. Writing Center tutors are enrolled in a course with teacher Lee Lehto that helps them improve their own writing and offer helpful feedback to others.

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Posted in English Language Arts, Featured, Hancock County, High School, Instruction, Multimedia, Students

The new Morse Code: Japanese

Posted on April 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

It was an ambitious decision, to say the least. Two high school freshmen, twin girls, selected Japanese as their language of choice at a school that didn’t offer Japanese.

That was more than two years ago.  Katie and Emily Morse are now juniors at Machias Memorial High School, and their learning dilemma has worked out just fine, thank you very much.  Or, arigatou gozaimasu, as the twins would tell you.

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Posted in Featured, High School, Technology, Washington County, World Languages

U.S. DOE seeks rural high schools for FAFSA pilot project

Posted on April 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking high schools to participate in a national pilot project that will allow the schools to access information on which of their students have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

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Posted in Administrators, Featured, High School, Higher Ed

CTE instructors contribute to national career readiness tests

Posted on April 4, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Students taking video production, visual and performing arts, sound engineering and other multimedia courses at career and technical education centers across Maine regularly take assessments to determine whether they’ve mastered the course expectations.

Soon, multimedia students won’t be taking just any test, but an assessment that tests their mastery of the skills considered important by the businesses that might some day employ them. And their teachers will have had a hand in developing the test.

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Posted in Assessment, Career & Technical, Featured, High School, Standards, Teachers, Visual & Performing Arts

Photos from Maine History Day

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Maine History Day brought 286 students from 24 middle and high schools to the University of Maine at Augusta on March 28. Students showed off exhibits, performances, websites, documentaries and other projects exploring a broad variety of historical themes.

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