1985- 2010: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
of FOSTERING INNOVATIVE
EDUCATION in PEABODY
PEC Awards 51 Grants to Peabody
Teachers
Peabody,
MA (February 2, 2010) - The Peabody Education Council has
awarded 51 projects totaling $28,196 as part of its annual
Best Bet grant program in support of teacher-initiated projects.
There were 80 applications submittted to the PEC for programs
and materials that are outside of the traditional school budget.
The grants, which are open to all of the district’s nearly
500 teachers, were presented to applicants at all ten Peabody
Public Schools
The
following projects were funded at each school:
Brown
School: Readers Workshop Adventure (AnneMarie Orlando, Nancy
DeRoo and Sarah Foster, $448); Easy Reader (Janet Terranova,
$440); Ken Burns Video Library (Diane Bugler, $280); “Healthy
Choices” performed by Julie and Brownie (Tina McCarthy, $1,000);
Lakeshore Theme Boxes (Maureen Lapham, $435); Fracto Jumbo
and Circle Set (Kristy Maier, $74); Life Along the Massachusetts
Coast (Sheila D’Ambrosio, $800); Hilltops (Patricia McGovern,
$121); Lakeshore Theme Boxes (Rachel Yensz, $435); Independent
Readers (Melinda Parker, Keri Kinnaly and Eric Brenner, $396)
Carroll
School: the New England Aquarium Tide Pool Alive! Program
(Heidi Mason, $505); Betty Lehrman Storytelling Performance
and Workshop (Jill String and Michele Leary, $850); Chris
Brown Presents Click, Clack, Moo (Amy Post, $760); Demonstration
of Rainforest Animals (Ellen Clougherty, $495)
Center
School: Lakeshore Leveled Books Classroom Libraries (Patricia
Hosman, $614); The Paper Bag Players Great Mummy Adventure
(Christina MacGregor, $680); KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater
(Jennifer Nash, $175); Curious Creatures (Maryann Stone, $260);
Plimoth Plantation (Margaret Prentiss, $500)
South
School: Natural Discoveries: The Green Machine (Thomas Camacchio,
$400); Mastering Math Games Library (Mary Skerry, $110); Gators,
Octopi and Grizzlies, Oh My! (Lisa Valentine, $900)
McCarthy
School : Uprising on King Street: The Boston Massacre (Nancy
Manning, $1,500); Curious Creatures Kid Zoo (Dottie Apostolides,
$495); Social Studies Books and Learning Centers (Rainelle
Comeau and Marianne Fraczek, $647); New England Aquarius Tide
Pool Alive! Program (Diane Reilly, $430); Renewable Energy
& Water in An Ecosystem (Kevin Andrews, $438); Curious
Creatures (Amy Emery and Maureen Hanna, $300)
Welch
School: Holey Math Cards (Marlene Pittsley, $124); New England
Aquarium Tide Pool Alive! Program (Elizabeth McGivern, $624);
My Community – A Visit to the Library (Jamie Benson, $189);
Cyrogenics: States of Matter (Mary Ingersoll, $445); Uprising
on King Street: The Boston Massacre (Regina Kennedy, in combo
with West and Burke)
West
School: Folktales East and West (Harolyn Swartz-Fucile, $450);
Science in our Backyard (Erin Larkin, $274); Math Quiz Game
Show (Janet Bresnahan and Stacy Scott, $92)
Higgins
Middle School: ”Higgins Helping Hawks” Peer Mentoring Program
(Todd Bucey, $3,000); Math Manipulatives Kit (Jocelyn Costa,
$392); Holocaust Survivors Visit (Linda Heafey, $500); Building
a Mousetrap Racing Car (Nancy Pymento, $900); Poetry Alive!
(Liane Irons, $1,000); Bicycle Math (Diane Devine, $400);
Meeting with History: Yoko Kawashima Watkins (Winona DiNitto,
$1,000); Building the “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” Library
(Jessica Christin, $500)
PVMHS:
Class Websites (Elizabeth Hayden, $140); Student Art Gallery
(Nancy Schaller, $331); Butter Battle Book Play (Richard Carey,
$318); FACEing Math (Jeanna Alunni, $100)
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Think back to the challenges
you faced as a youth.
Then remember the
people and the programs that helped
you overcome these obstacles and set you on the
road to achievement.
Today's children and youth face many of
the same challenges -
and some very different, even more complex ones. Fortunately,
the young people of Peabody, Massachusetts, have a group of
supporters who sponsor programs to guide them:
the Peabody Education Council. Peabody
Education Council
City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960
PEC Career Mentoring Program Underway
February 2010 - The number of PVMHS students who have pledged
participation in the Peabody Education Council’s Career Mentoring
Program has nearly doubled over last year. The program provides
high school juniors with an opportunity to experience the environment
of a real-life work day and potential career.
Students are paired with local business people and meet with
their mentors after school or on weekends during the spring.
Observing the daily operations and activities of local professionals
allows students to obtain firsthand knowledge of the rigors,
pressures and rewards of the career he/she may be considering.
Students also gain insight from their mentors on college pre-requisites,
earning potential and career advancement opportunities.
Career Day at PVMHS
is April 9, 2010
PEC 2010 Guest Reader Program Has "Anti-bullying"
Theme
December 2009 - Each year from January through May, the
Peabody Education Council enlists city officials and local citizens
to spend twenty to forty minutes each week in an elementary
school classroom reading aloud to children. The program is intended
to expose students to the pleasures of reading and a positive
reading role model.
This year, the PEC has joined forces with the Rotary
Club of Peabody to provide guest readers
with books that have an anti-bullying theme. The effort is an
offshoot a Rotary liteacy program called S.T.O.P. which will
send guest readers from the Rotary to the Carroll School to
read anti-bullying themed literature.
To support the reading effort, the Peabody Institute Library
has prepared a hotlist of anti-bullying titles
that may be borrowed from the public library. Additionally,
school library volunteers have prepared a shelf of anti-bullying
titles that are available to PEC guest readers.
Reading to children brings enjoyment to both the readers and
the students, and reinforces the idea that reading is fun for
everyone.
RAFFLE CALENDAR SALE The
Peabody Education Council's annual Calendar Raffle fundraiser
is slated to begin in April.
Merchants donate gift certificates and/or cash prizes for each
day of the May calendar. Students in Peabody Public elementary
schools receive five copies of the calendar to sell. Each calendar
sold earns $1 for the school's School Improvement Council and
the remainder benefits the PEC.
"The Peabody Education Council is absolutely essential to the
City of Peabody. It provides a great service
and a great support
mechanism. Council understands that education is important, not
only to the welfare of the
children but to the welfare of our
nation. If we are to lead and provide good jobs, we need
education.
The Council supports that." -
Mayor Michael J. Bonfanti
