DISTRICT PERSONNEL
Katie Boyles Music B.M.
Eileen Breckell (G) Elem. Spec. B.Ed.
Needs Coor. M.Ed.
Deborah Brede Phy. Therapist B.S.
Melissa Castine COTA
Nancy Jo Greene Art B.A.
Jen Heise Teacher B.A.
Brenda Kelly Reading B.E.
M.E.
Susan Kessler (.5) School to
Career B.A.
M.Ed.
Bridgette Lawrence Speech Lang. Asst. A.S. NH
Charlotte Lesser Media Generalist B.A.
MLS
Maureen Lord Physical Ed. B.S.
Elaine Merrifield Music B.M.
Sharon Mousette Music B.M.
Natalia Rogova ESL B.A.
Katherine Shanks (G) Title I Director B.S.
M.E.
Kelly J. Smith Physical Ed. B.S.
Karen Thompson Vocational B.A.
Coordinator
Amy Treat Guidance
Counselor B.A.
M.Ed.
M.Ed.
Kathleen Woodbury Remedial B.E.
SAU #38 SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS
*
Donna Borynack Psychologist B.A.
M.Ed.
CAGS
John W. Magee, III Psychologist B.A. Pennsylvania State Univ.
M.Ed.
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State Univ.
Zandra Reagan Psychologist B.S.
M.S.
Craig Seiler Psychologist B.A.
M.A. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.
* All SAU psychologists are 50% grant funded
SPEECH / LANGUAGE
PATHOLOGISTS
Janet Feuring-Russell SPL B.A. SUNY at
M.A.
Risa Keene SPL B.S.
M.S.
Sarah Kiburis (.6) SPL B.A.
M.S.
Pam O'Connor SPL B.S.
M.A.
Beth Tom SPL B.A.
SPEECH / LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS
Bridgette Lawrence Brenda Rodier
OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPISTS
Diane Harty Occupational
Therapist B.S.
Lauri E. Olson-Porter Occupational. Therapist M.B.A.
B.S.
OCCUPATIONAL ASSISTANTS
Melissa Castine Kate
Lucius
NURSES
Judy Bohannon MRHS
Patricia Dille
Tracy Dion MRJHS
Cynthia Melhorn
Lynne Rumba Emerson
Joyce Silva Cutler
Vacant Gilsum/Sullivan
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANTS
Sharon Arnone (G) Title
I Carmelina Nims MRHS
Elizabeth Colby MRHS Sheila Ojala Emerson
Cynthia M. Dejnak Gilsum/Sullivan Heidi Packard MRMS
Lisa E. Fisk Cutler Janet Parsons
Maxine S. Houle MRHS Linda
Reinhart MRHS
Linda Jakubowicz
Diane Lepisto MRHS Sandra Smith MRHS
Colleen Mason MRHS Karin Willson MC2
CUSTODIANS & MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL
Michael Pratt DISTRICT Maintenance Supervisor
Wayne
Goodwin MRHS Custodial Supervisor
Sharon
Turner DISTRICT Administrative
Assistant
Robert Bashaw MRHS Robert
Goodrich DISTRICT
Mark Bohannon DISTRICT Todd
Hunter MRHS/Mt. Caesar
Lindsey
Borden DISTRICT Barry Jackson MRHS
Jerry Boucher DISTRICT Eileen Longe SAU/MRHS/Wilcox
Alan Burke Cutler Charles Martin Emerson
James
Ciampa MRHS John McGinnis
Henry Cobb DISTRICT Shirley Mitchell
Patrick Coll Cutler Michael
Mohan
Eric Conant MC2 / Cutler Michael Morel MRHS
Derek Denico
Will
Dragoon DISTRICT Dennis Shackett Emerson
Michel Duquette DISTRICT John
Silander MRHS
Roland (Joe) Drouin MRHS Dennis
Weston MRHS
George Giannetti MRHS
School-to-Career
Sue Kessler, MRSD School-to-Career Coordinator
The Monadnock School-to-Career Committee will establish high standards for career development in which students may explore a variety of educational and occupational opportunities, learn the realities of the workplace, and identify both the technical skills and individual abilities to succeed in the modern economy.
The work of the School-to-Career Committee of the
The School-to-Career Committee has focused on refining and implementing a fully established continuum of career exploration and career awareness activities for students, grades K-12, that will enable each student to make informed decisions about their futures. Working hand in hand with area businesses and community members, these career exploration activities fit within the guidelines established by the NH Department of Education in the NH Career Development Frameworks. These Frameworks have been fully integrated into all levels of the NH state testing.
The ongoing collaboration between businesses and education helps teachers better understand the needs of the workplace and helps students recognize the relevance of academic learning. School-to-Career activities bring employers and employees into the classroom and provide opportunities for teachers and students to experience the workplace first hand, lending a new relevance and practical application to learning and emphasizing workplace skills that will apply to any choice of career. These partnerships linking our schools and area businesses are essential to the success of our students as future workers and citizens.
One of the foundations of the School-to-Career effort in our schools has been the implementation of the Monadnock Regional Workplace Skills which are posted and incorporated into the curriculum in every classroom. These are the basic elements that have been established for helping students grow into productive workers and positive citizens in our communities. Business leaders have recognized these workplace skills as critical for every person entering the workforce. The high school version of the Workplace Skills follows.
Monadnock Regional School District
Workplace
Skills
The
1. Demonstrate flexibility.
2. Be neat, clean and appropriately dressed.
3. Be dependable.
4. Follow directions.
5. Maintain safety standards.
6. Show respect for others.
7. Use appropriate language.
8. Put forth your best effort.
9. Use materials and equipment wisely.
10. Manage time wisely.
11. Know what you do well and what you need help with.
12. Be a lifelong learner.
13. Know how to locate information.
14. Maintain good health habits.
15. Be loyal to yourself and others.
16. Use good decision-making skills.
17. Be on time.
18. Work as a good team member.
Each year new activities are added by the School-to-Career Committee which build on the successes of previous years. Some examples include:
· An ongoing very successful Career Day that is held on the Keene State College campus during March. Tenth graders hear presentations from area business people describing more than 60 career fields. Students choose three different sessions to attend throughout the morning.
· As a follow-up to the Keene State Career Day, an in-school career awareness day was instituted this past year at MRHS. It was a school-wide event and plans are in place to continue this event on a larger scale in the coming years.
· Two new Pathway programs at MRHS have been developed and fostered by the School-to-Career Committee. The Law, Public Safety and Security Pathway include coursework in such areas as Criminology, Abnormal Psychology and Sociology and an English course titled Crime and Punishment. The Geographic Information Systems Pathway will include units within courses such as Geography, Astronomy and Physical Science. In each Pathway, students are provided with relevant contexts which link school-based learning with the knowledge and skills required for continued success in the field. Articulation agreements with two-year and four-year colleges have been developed.
· Elementary students throughout the district participate in the National Groundhog Job Shadow event which extends through the month of February. Area businesses have hosted numerous students for valuable experiences observing and learning. By bringing students into the workforce to see the multitude of positions it can take to run a business, office or company, very real and tangible options come alive. Job Shadow Day helps to create a critical link between education and the real world.
·
Human Anatomy and Physiology students have
received incredible opportunities to shadow a wide range of medical
professionals through our established partnership with the
· Community and business career partnerships have afforded many classes the opportunity to take field trips to visit local businesses and to invite business people into classrooms.
· Teachers have had the opportunity to participate in an educational program called Leadership Teacher. This program offers educators a cutting-edge, real-world approach to professional development by creating opportunities for schools to network and build partnerships with business and industry. Partnerships established during these experiences have resulted in host businesses becoming involved in classroom activities throughout the school year.
· Students in each school have participated in service learning projects which connect service to the community with academic learning. Key elements of service learning projects include forming community partnerships as well as fostering career awareness for students.
· Members of the School-to-Career Committee worked last summer to assess ongoing career development activities and to plan for the coming school year.
Elementary Library Services in the
Annual Report for 2006/2007
Our district wide, automated library system, Follett, continues to improve as we make use of a variety of services Follett offers. This past year, we added Accelerated Reader (AR) data to titles in our library catalogs. AR offers computerized quizzes for certain titles including some of our district wide reading textbook readers. By including this information in the library catalog, students can quickly match a possible reading title with the ability to take the quiz the school owns. Another Follett service called “Titlewise” allows us to generate data about our library collections, which we used this year to reevaluate library materials more than 40 years old.
The Elementary Library Services budget continues to provide free access to on-line databases for all students and staff of the MRSD. These databases include the World Book Encyclopedia online, Grolier Online databases which include science and geography specific resources, and EBSCOhost a full-text magazine/newspaper database. Links to these databases, as well as many other very useful reference sites, are available from the web page called the “Reference Shelf” which you can find at: www.mrsd.org/~library/refshelf.htm. In addition, this year we sub- scribed to a literature resource database for all staff. We cooperate with and share library databases with the middle/high school library as well to further extend our resources.
The District Library Staff meets as a group about six times a year. These meetings are a combination of staff development for the library aides, problem solving and idea sharing. We share resources, such as PowerPoint’s, compare library lessons, and use our many years of experience working with students to brainstorm solutions to common library issues we all face.
I continue to teach library skills at the two Northern elementary schools once a week. The students are learning research skills and grade level appropriate library skills through lesson plans that also have technology integrated into them. As I use the many lesson plans, kits and other resources that I have written or created for the District Library Staff I have also been able to evaluate them and add to them.
All of these components mean
improved library services for the elementary students in the MRSD. If you have any questions please feel free to
contact me at the SAU #38
Monadnock
Regional Nutrition Services
Thomas A.
Walsh,
Director
The
Information on the wellness policy is
available @ http://www.mrsd.org/~mrhs/default.htm
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BREAKFAST /
LUNCH PROGRAM PERSONNEL
Thomas Walsh Director,
MRSD
Peggy
Ciampa Office Manager
Alice Barrows Cutler, Mgr / Cook Julaine Rogers
Linda Cutter Gilsum, Mgr / Cook Joanne Sheats Emerson
Jean Fitzpatrick Sullivan, Mgr / Cook Cecilia Smith Emerson, Mgr / Cook
Gail Fulford MRHS Tracey Tempesta MRHS Manager
Heather
Goodell MRHS Allyn Thompson MRHS / Cook
Deborah
Harvey MRHS Cheryl Wagner MRHS, Mgr / Cook
Catrina
Hunt MRHS Lucille
Whitcomb MRHS
Stacey
LaBelle Cutler Kathleen
Winsor MRHS
Constance
Lang
Kathleen Miller Cutler Kathleen Winsor MRHS
Linda Ouellette Mt.Caesar, Mgr / Cook Janet Young MRHS