November 26: Welcome Back

Welcome Back. I hope you had restful and enjoyable break. Thanks for all of the gratitude you spread (and continue to spread) throughout the school and our community. There are many ways to give during this season and I appreciate your effort to help with staff and student initiatives. I also know that what you do, day to day, all year long, is a major giving of yourselves and I appreciate your hard work, diligence, and compassion for one another, our profession and our school community. Thanks!


I hope you had a chance to see the musical the weekend prior to our break. I, unfortunately missed it due to sickness and family

Rehearsal time

commitments, but I heard it was awesome. Thank you Dave for your hard work in preparing and inspiring the students. And thanks to everyone else who I know supported our actors and stage crew in ways they needed throughout the process and during the hectic production week. I appreciate everyone's support of this program and the students who give so much energy and passion to the productions. The PA Stage Company is an integral part of our school and important source of positive culture building.



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Unbound Update
If you happen to spot Chad back in the building, it's not by chance. I'm happy to announce that he is rejoining the PA/PAML school community. He will be the new Unbound Director starting this Monday. Most of you will have fond memories of Chad as a successful para-educator and integral member of the Unbound Program for more than 2 years. Welcome back Chad!

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Calendar

   11/26 - Best Practice 3-4 pm
   11/26 - TOY DRIVE STARTS
   11/30 - TA Diversity Activity
   12/4-10  Hanukkah
   12/4 - Early Release
   12/10- Best Practice 3-4 pm
          *Scholarly Habit Reflection*
   12/14 - TA Whow Project
   12/25-1/1 - Winter Break
   1/11 - Last day of Semester
   1/21 - LSSU In-Service @ PA

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TA this week:
   Tuesday: On your own; Announcements, flex sign up - please tell students to sign up for the next two weeks, there will not be flex on Friday due to a special all school activity
    
   Friday: Diversity Activity - all students and staff will report to the auditorium to start the activity. There will not be Flextime on Friday.  (*also, remind students to sign up for flex) You will learn more about this at Best Practice. 

  Tuesday (12/4): No TA - early release

  Friday (12/7): Diversity Activity continued and flex sign up

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This week's link: The Secret to Student Success: Shannon shared this simple article connecting M3, Scholarly Habit, and learning concepts into effective classroom strategies.  
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Schoolwide Happenings:

Discussing Scholarly Habits in Spanish

Learning a new version of capture the flag

Art integration team with teaching artist Trisha Denton.....in Woodstock during our SNOw DAY! 

Judge Carr presiding over Christopher Columbus trial and Jon Gailmor helping US History compose and record a song about the Civil War. 

Upcoming happening.....a high school basketball team from New Zealand will be visiting PA/PAML on December 3-4. They are coming from Hamilton HS and their coach is PA alum, Tim Cox!, who now lives in NZ with his wife and three kids. The team is here on a cultural educational exchange. They will be scrimmaging our JV team on Dec 3rd at 5pm and running a clinic for ML students during the early release on the 4th. They will be visiting with ML students during the morning of the 4th and enjoying a good old American lunch.

 Celebrations: 

Congrats to Angie Feraci who was recently named Vermont Soccer Coach of the Year. You may recall that she was named League Coach of the Year last year. Well, this award is for all boys soccer coaches across the entire state. She will be named as the NFHS Vermont Coach of the Year and will be considered for the National Coach of the Year. We'll hear the results by mid-January.

Way to go Lena Boudreau, Lexy Dambach, Eli Smith, and Gabby White who were accepted to and participated in the All New England Band Festival. It was held at Plymouth State University on November 19th.