Good Morning,

We hope that you are enjoying this beautiful weekend.  Below is the link to this week’s Pathways Newsletter for the Reading Public School Community.  In this week’s edition, we have stories on the teachers who were honored at the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony last week, How to end the school year right, and PLCs and Teacher Evaluation.  In addition, we have photos from Parker, RMHS, RMHS Drama Club, Middle School Band, and Barrows.  It was quite a busy week!

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead!

Take care.

Pathways Newsletter V2N34

Good Morning, Everyone and Happy Mother’s Day!

Attached, please find this week’s edition of the Pathways Newsletter.  This week there are articles about Killam winning the FBI contest and the second part of the two part article on 20 tips to help deescalate interactions with anxious or defiant students.  We also have several pictures from the Special Olympics, Killam, Barrows, Eaton, Parker, Coolidge and the High School.

Have a great day and week ahead!

Take care.

Pathways Newsletter V2N33

Good Morning,

We hope that you are having a great week.  The link below is for this week’s Pathways Newsletter.  In this week’s edition, we have a story that celebrates the work that our teachers and nurses do each day in honor of Teacher and Nurse Appreciation Days, the first part of a two part article on 20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students, and what happens when we reassure students that anxiety is normal.  We also have photos from Coolidge, Parker, and Killam events and classroom experiences.

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead!

Take care.

Pathways Newsletter V2N32

Good Afternoon,

The link below is the April 5th minutes from the first meeting of the Late Start Working Group, which is charged with investigating starting school at a later time each day for middle and high school.

LateStart Minutes 4-5-16

Good Morning,

We hope that you and your families have had a great April vacation.  We are pleased to send to you this week’s Pathways Newsletter which celebrates our 8th Annual Arts Fest and Blue Ribbon Institute.  We hope you enjoy the stories and photos.

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead!

Pathways Newsletter V2N31

Good Morning,

We hope you are having a great weekend. Below is the link to this week’s Pathways Newsletter.  In this week’s edition we have stories about ArtsFest, our Transition to a new Integrated Web Page for the 2016-17 school year, how Middlesex League Superintendents support a later start time for High School and Middle School, the Reading Education Foundation Grant Winners and uses and misuses of character traits.  In addition, we have photos from Birch Meadow and Killam.

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead.

Take care.

Pathways Newsletter V2N30

Reading Education Foundation is pleased to announce the 2016 Grant Awards totaling $44,214.19, benefiting every school in our district. Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients.

HIGH SCHOOL GRANTS

Computing in the Arts:  With user-friendly micro-controllers and software, students will create meaningful visual or musical artifacts that respond to human inputs. Grant proposed by Steve Cogger

Active Sitting Workspace Options: A pilot study of specially-designed seating options which will improve focus, attention and concentration.   Grant proposed by Danja Mahoney

3D Printers for Hands-on Design Production:  The addition of three 3D printers will allow all students in the Intro to Engineering Design course to produce their designs. Grant proposed by Charles Strout

HIGH SCHOOL/MIDDLE SCHOOL GRANT

STEAM Makerspace at the Secondary Level LCMs: The purchase of kits and materials will support hand-on, collaborative creativity in these DIY areas designed for blending Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Grant proposed by Sharon Burke

MIDDLE SCHOOL GRANTS

Digitized Reading in the 21st Century: Through the purchase of additional iPads, 6th Grade Parker students will have increased access to digital text and beneficial accompanying software. Grant proposed by Donna Martinson

Green Screen Video Studio: The easy-to-use technology of iPads and Apps will allow students to facilitate video production and focus on content. Grant proposed by Christine Steinhauser

Bandroom Dynamic Soundfield System: This sound system will allow the 90+ students to clearly hear the band director during practices. Grant proposed by Cheryl Webster

World Music Drumming: This set of instruments, to be used in African-American slave and new American music units, will increase 7th grade students’ engagement in the general music program. Grant proposed by Anna Wentlent

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GRANTS

Art in the Sky, A Transformational Adventure in Perspective:  Through the creation of a giant living painting on a field that can only be understood from above, Killam’s  all-school, three-day residency program will deepen perception and develop a big-picture approach to creative problem solving.   Grant proposed by Amy Hussey

Access for All Elementary Library/Media Collection: This grant will establish a collection at each school to benefit all students including ones with language based learning challenges. Resources, including audio book kits and readers, dyslexia friendly books and low level-high interest books, will be available for in-class and student check-out.  Grant proposed by Krista Erikson

Makerspace Robot Coding Kits:  Each school will procure K-3 and 4-5 robot kits to support hand-on, collaborative creativity in these DIY areas designed for blending Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.  Grant proposed by Tracy Thrasher Hybl

Core Value Literature Collection Development:  Each school will establish a collection to support social/emotional/mental health and diversity.  Grant proposed by Lisa Norcross

Good Morning,

We hope all is well and you are having a great weekend.  The link below is to this week’s Pathways Newsletter.    In this week’s edition, there are articles about the 5 myths of Technology in Classrooms, Nine Ways to Introduce Students to Random Acts of Kindness, and Using a Daily Poem to Jump Start English Classes.  In addition, we have photos from the recently held French Culture Day at RMHS.

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead!

Pathways Newsletter V2N29

Office of the Chief

For Immediate Release

March 31, 2016

At 12:26 p.m. on Thursday 3/31/16, the Reading Police Department received a report of an attempted carjacking in the lot of Home Goods store (1342 Main Street, Reading). The suspect fled the scene prior to Officer’s arrival. The suspect is described as a clean shaven white male, in his twenties, approximately six feet tall, wearing a black sweatshirt with an unknown logo and a black baseball cap.

A thorough search of the area was conducted by Reading Police with the assistance of Massachusetts State Police K-9 teams, North Reading Police and the NEMLEC K-9 Unit. The suspect has not been located at this time. The Wood End Elementary School was put in a “Shelter in Place” due to a police investigation in the area. The school has been deemed safe and secure, and additional police were assigned to the area as a precaution. The Reading Police are still actively searching in the Franklin Street area.

Residents are advised to stay vigilante until the suspect is apprehended. Police are asking residents to keep doors and windows locked, and use extra caution. Anyone who sees this suspect, or anything out of the ordinary, should contact the Reading Police at 781-944-1212.

Good Morning,

We hope all is well.  For those of you celebrating Easter, we hope that you are having a joyous Easter weekend.

Below is the link to the Pathways Newsletter for the week of March 27th.  In this week’s edition, we have a music video created by Wood End, an article and photo on the RMHS Science Olympiad Team, articles on Teaching Students Mathematical Argumentation and Close Reading 101, and several photos from Mahesh Sharma’s visit to the Reading Public Schools this week, Coolidge Core Values Event, Hour of Code at Joshua Eaton, and the Barrows Bistro.

Have a great rest of the weekend and week ahead!

Pathways Newsletter V2N28