The first winner of the Lancer Leader Award was James W. Parker Middle School’s Mrs. Betsy Zafiropoulos. Mrs. Zafiropoulos was presented the award on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The Lancer Leader program allows anyone to nominate a teacher, administrator or staff member as a way to say thank you for making […]
Mrs. Rachel Pituch’s class at Edinboro Elementary celebrated Halloween week with hands-on learning using pumpkins. The class has been studying the life cycle of a pumpkin, as well as the parts of a pumpkin for the past few weeks. On Monday, the class brought of all of that learning together […]
Even though they physically cannot be together, Mrs. Kara Debevec’s a.m. and p.m. kindergarten groups work collaboratively on one project each month. Mrs. Debevec, a kindergarten teacher at McKean Elementary School, shared the October project that her a.m. and p.m. kindergarteners have been working on all month – a pumpkin! […]
McKean Elementary and Edinboro Elementary are offering free smart thermometers to students and families. The schools were awarded a grant that offers a free smart thermometer ($29.99 value) to any elementary school family that signs up and downloads the free Kinsa app. Kinsa’s mission is to help stop the spread […]
Students at McKean Elementary School and James W. Parker Middle School will recognize Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week brings awareness to the dangers of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and vaping. McKean Elementary is recognizing Red Ribbon week this week, Oct. 19 to 23. Parker Middle School will recognize Red Ribbon […]
The new hybrid model of learning at General McLane School District has been an adjustment for many students. General McLane High School has created an after-school program designed to provide tutoring and additional help to students called GM Access. GM Access will run Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:45 p.m. through […]
Edinboro Elementary third grade classes got their own pumpkin patch outside of the building Friday morning. Vanco Family Farms, 12210 Silverthorn Rd., Edinboro, delivered around 80 pumpkins for the third grade classes to “pick” pumpkins on the front lawn of the elementary school Friday morning. After each student picked his or […]
A large part of the General McLane High School’s Life Skills and Autistic Support program is vocational training and community-based instruction. Due to COVID-19 restrictions a lot of that wasn’t possible for this year, so the Life Skills and Autistic Support teachers got creative and completed in-house vocational training at […]
The Edinboro Elementary kindergarten teachers knew they couldn’t take their classes this year on their annual fall field trips to a local pumpkin patch due to COVID-19 restrictions. So they brought the pumpkin patch to them. Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Pfeiffer, Mrs. Kupcyzk and Mrs. Woods spread out pumpkins behind Edinboro […]
Fifth grade students at James W. Parker Middle School incorporated math and science into a fun and interactive challenge on Friday that involved Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Saltine crackers. First, the students, who were part of the 5th Grade Math classes for Mrs. Barbarini, Mrs. Berchtold, Mrs. Zafiropoulos and […]