Maine teachers report working as many as 100 hours a week as they navigate the pandemic. Says one Rumford educator: “The sheer amount of it is overwhelming, trying to keep up with everything.”
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‘Steep learning curve’: Educators are finding rewards amid the challenges of pandemic teaching
Maine teachers report working as many as 100 hours a week as they navigate the pandemic. Says one Rumford educator: “The sheer amount of it is overwhelming, trying to keep up with everything.”
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
After six-month wait, Richmond moving to next step of RSU 2 withdrawal process
If Regional School Unit 2 approves the revised agreement from the town, the next step in the town’s effort to leave the school district would be a review by the Maine Department of Education.
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Farmington area school board approves new evaluation system, more district grievances expressed
New administrator evaluation system approved and updates to language acquisition program; winter sports discussed.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Positive COVID-19 cases reported Gardiner middle, two Hallowell-area elementary schools
One cohort at Gardiner Area Middle School has entered fully remote learning, the second time a school in Maine School Administrative District 11 has entered “red” protocols, while contact tracing is underway for a pair of Regional School Unit 2 buildings.
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UMaine System, unions settle dispute over retirees’ health insurance
The deal affects about 3,000 retirees, who will now have the option of keeping a group health plan that would have been replaced by a health exchange system.
Posted inNation & World, New England, Schools and Education, Uncategorized
Thanksgiving lessons jettison Pilgrim hats, welcome truth
More U.S. schools are rethinking traditional Thanksgiving lessons that focus on the English settlers but teach little about Native Americans.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Skowhegan school staffers deliver Thanksgiving meals to students who raised the chickens
Students at the Marti Stevens Learning Center built a chicken coop and raised the birds from the time they hatched.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
COVID-19 cases reported at schools in Monmouth, Newport, Thorndike and Waterville
The cases include the second reported at Monmouth Memorial School, the first at Mount View High School, the third at Nokomis Regional High School and a substitute worker at Waterville Senior High School.
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As cases rise, Maine colleges prepare to send students home to finish semester
Colleges around Maine will send students home to finish the semester remotely after Thanksgiving, but only after testing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during travel.