Essex Westford School District

ADL welcomed new and returning families at their annual open house event!🐾💯

EMS teacher, Andrew Kasprisin, has been recognized as the 2023 K-8 Outstanding Science Teacher of the Year by the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering. https://bit.ly/3tei68X 👏🏆🎉

Congratulations to ADL Science Teacher, Brian Neufeld, for recently being named the 2023-2024 EWSD K-8 UVM Outstanding Teacher of the Year! https://bit.ly/48tV1iD 🏆🏆🐾

Let’s help students build a habit of good attendance early & often!

Thank you to the EWSD Multilingual Advisory Council and all of the volunteers for hosting an outdoor family event at Maple Street Park. All EWSD multilingual families and friends of the multilingual community were invited to attend. Families and students participated in badminton, soccer games, a potato sack race, giant Jenga, face painting, henna, and many more fun activities! All families who attended received a book about a child's immigration story called Where Butterflies Fill The Sky by Zahra Marwan.

Hey 👋👋🐝 EHS STEM Academy students!

Please be advised that traffic on Old Colchester Road and other streets nearby may be congested on Friday, Oct. 6 from 4:30-9:30 p.m. due to multiple sporting events taking place at EHS, including the homecoming football game. Visiting teams are encouraged to park in the grass lots off of Old Colchester Road.

Fourth graders at FMS visited the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center. Students learned about the food chain in Lake Champlain, how to sail, and even got to steer the boats! ⛵🐟☀️😊

❗❗Reminder ❗❗There will be no school this Friday, October 6th and no school on Monday, October 9th!

Addressing chronic absence is a key component of improving graduation rates, increasing academic achievement & giving young people a good chance for success in their adult life. #EWSD

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Recycle Rhonda is back in the EWSD to teach students how to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle! ♻️👍😀 #EWSD #YouBelong

The EWSD K-5 Literacy Leadership Committee came together to fine-tune their purpose; including learning together using the Agency of Education, the International Literacy Association, and the Science of Reading Resources. #EWSD #YouBelong

Hiawatha artists celebrated International Dot Day! International Dot Day is a day that encourages people of all ages to celebrate creativity, courage, and collaboration. Inspired by the children’s book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. 👉 internationaldotday.org 🎨🖌️ #EWSD #YouBelong

📚 What is Banned Books Week? What's the difference between a book that's challenged and a book that's banned? What can we do to prevent this? Watch Ms. Von Nagy and Ms. Tipton answer these questions and more 👉 https://bit.ly/3EXMRl8 📚

The #EWSD Board will next meet on Tue., October 3 starting at 6:30 p.m. in the EHS Library. The full meeting will be available to watch on Facebook Live thanks to the Media Factory (www.facebook.com/BTVMediaFactory). Agenda items for the meeting include: * Youth Truth Data - Student Engagement, A sense of belonging * EWSD Student Engagement Strategies * 802 Smiles * 4.4 Board Chair’s Role To learn more about the EWSD Board, please visit: www.ewsd.org/schoolboard

ADL STEAM teacher, Toni Zimmerman, will be joining the 5th Annual Pilot Light Food Education Fellowship! The Food Education Fellowship is a year-long professional development cohort designed to promote Food Education leadership in the Pilot Light model of integrated Food Education. This means that Zimmerman, alongside 24 other educators from schools across the country, will be weaving food topics into their classroom topics on a regular basis. https://bit.ly/3PKDVFV 🍎🍌🍇🐾 #EWSD #YouBelong

📢 EWSD Middle School students 📢 The 1st Annual Essex Rotary Youth Mini-Golf Tournament will be hosted on Sunday, October 1. Grab some friends to form a team, and enjoy some golf, lunch, ice cream, prizes, and more! Be sure to register your team soon!⛳😀

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Congratulations to Brian Japp, a Forestry Teacher in the Natural Resources program at the Center for Technology, Essex for being named CTE’s 2023 Vermont Outstanding Educator! 👏🏆👉 ewsd.org #EWSD #YouBelong