Friday Night Hoe Down! Woohoo, good times for everyone!!!

Mrs. Curcuru's students earn Compasses!

Ben MacDonald, Max Fritsch, Conrad Garfield, and Alex Hatfield all earned Core Value Compasses in recognition of showing RESPECT to classmates!  Nice job boys!  

Student Council kicks off their first meeting!

Student Council members kick off the year by creating posters reminding students to recycle.  They also made anti-bully posters and placed them around the school.  

Emotional Intelligence Workshop for EES staff on Friday! (R.U.L.E.R.)

As part of our RULER (emotional intelligence training) we develop an EES Charter for staff.  This charter focuses on the way we (the adults) want to feel at work each day.  Teachers with a high emotional intelligence are able to work effectively with students!  

Staff work in small groups to decide the key words that describe how they would like to feel while at work each day.  

The staff was highly engaged in this important work!

The EES RULER trainers are Emily Dwyer, Debi Welling, Caitlin Featherstone, Jeannine Stanley, and yours truly, Jennifer Roberts!

These are the many words that staff came up with.  The next step is to narrow the list down to 5-7 words.  This was really hard work.  We had great discussion about each word and what that meant to staff.  

How many of you would also like to feel like this at your work place?  Now our job is to determine how we as a staff can help each other feel this way.  We will get very specific.   After spending a year on this work (with the adults) we will begin to think about this work with students (next year)!   

EES Staff who were recognized on opening day for more than 15 years of service in MERSD!

Dr. Elizabeth Englander comes to MERSD!!!

Dr. Elizabeth Englander, October 19, 2017 @ 7:00pm – MERMHS Auditorium

Dr. Englander is a professor of Psychology and Founder and Director of The MA Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) at Bridgewater State University, a Center which delivers anti-violence and anti-bullying programs, resources, and research for the state of MA. She was named Most Valuable Educator of 2013 by the Boston Red Sox because of her work in technological aggression and how it interacts with peer abusiveness in general.

As a school district, the Manchester-Essex Regional School District is proud to work with The MA Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) through student, faculty , and parent trainings on social awareness and anti-bullying. In addition, MERSD participates in Second Steps, YALE's RULER Social Emotional Training, and MARC's student workshops focusing on anti-bullying curriculum development programs.

Mrs. Kasmarcik's class involved in Project Based Learning..such an engaging way to learn!!

This is a math service project that 4th graders in Mrs. Kasmarcik's class are proud to share with you!!! It involved a class based diaper drive to benefit the Anchor of Hope organization, which is a diaper bank on the North Shore. They used the data from the numbers of different sizes and brands collected to practice different math skills and strategies in an authentic way. Congratulations boys and girls on a very successful project.  Mrs. K, you ROCK!!!