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A Trip Back to 1973—CSD Honors Teacher for 40 Years of Service
Colchester School District recently honored a Union Memorial School second grade teacher for forty years of service. Superintendent Larry Waters presents Debbie Howard with a service award recognizing...
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Schools Equipped with Enhanced Safety and Security Features—Part II
On August 21, we released Part I of this article introducing your schools’ enhanced safety and security features. (Please click here to read Part I of this article.) In Part II, we offer a video...
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Vermont Principal of the Year Amy Minor Honored In Washington DC
Vermont Principal of the Year Amy Minor has recently returned from Washington DC, where she joined top principals from all around the nation for an important three-day event. CHS Principal Amy Minor in...
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UPDATED: How Do Academics, Wellness, and Grassroots Activism Come Together?
UPDATE! Since the original publication date of this article, the 5K event to support the Colchester Community Food Shelf was a tremendous success. The event, coordinated by Colchester High School...
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What Makes Colchester Proud?
Sometimes, pictures speak louder than words. Your schools, your town, and your community are working together like never before. Enjoy this video … and please share it with others. Your schools and...
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CHS and CPD Offer Three-Part Series to Support Colchester Adolescents
What should parents know and do in order to support and raise healthy and productive teenagers? Colchester High School and Colchester Police Department are collaborating to offer a three-part series to...
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Did You Know That Colchester’s Kindergarten Enrollments Are Rising?
In case you have not yet seen the November 2013 issue of Currently Colchester, we wanted to share some important information about the district’s trends in kindergarten enrollment. As was explained in...
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CHS Teacher Named VT Health Teacher of the Year
The Vermont Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (VTAHPERD) has given a Colchester High School educator its top honor. Melanie Laquerre recently received VTAHPERD’s Health...
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Honoring 50 National Honor Society Inductees!
Fifty Colchester High School students were recently inducted into National Honor Society! The National Honor Society (NHS)—which has chapters in all fifty states as well as in many US territories and...
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Physical Education Makes a Splash … and Then Some (Contains Videos!)
For those of us out there who remember gym class as consisting primarily of kickball and situps, this article should be of particular interest. How many of us can say that we could canoe or kayak for...
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Important Wellness Work in Your Schools
The Colchester School District Vision and Strategic Plan 2012–2017‘s pathways include, among others, Pathway F: Wellness-Oriented, Balanced, and Healthy Learners. In accordance with this pathway,...
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Friendly Reminder: CHS and CPD Offer Three-Part Series to Support Colchester...
As we discussed in our November 6 Spotlight article, Colchester High School and Colchester Police Department are collaborating to offer a three-part series to help support adolescents in our community....
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Why Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Important?
Parent-teacher conferences are coming up! Parent-teacher conferences are a really important opportunity for parents and teachers to forge partnerships in students’ education. They help to foster...
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District-Wide Green Initiatives and Why They’re Important
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live. —Jim Clyburn Your school district is...
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Hungry Minds Need Great Books!
The Burnham Memorial Library’s Young Adult Advisory Board (YA Board) works in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Colchester-Milton on its annual holiday basket project. While Rotarians collect food...
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Wishing You a Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. —W. J. Cameron CHS Cares with the Thanksgiving food drive supplies Colchester High School’s CHS Cares coordinated its annual effort to provide complete...
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Introducing Student School Board Member Teremy Garen
As we announced in the December 2013 issue of Currently Colchester, we introduce CHS senior Teremy Garen, the Colchester School Board’s newly appointed student representative. CHS senior Teremy Garen...
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What Do Alan Greenspan, Condoleezza Rice, and Woody Allen Have In Common?
Did you know that Alan Greenspan, Condoleezza Rice, Paula Zahn, Woody Allen, and a host of others credit their musical education for their notable professional successes? It’s all here in a recent New...
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Close-Knit Community Outreach (Contains Videos!)
There is a lot about Colchester that makes its community proud. (If you missed our recent video offering some wonderful examples, please click here.) And now we are heading into winter … how about a...
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$10,000, the “Hour of Code,” and Working Toward the Future (Contains Video!)
Colchester High School’s “Hour of Code” proposal was selected as the Vermont winner … and earned CHS $10,000 to purchase technology for use in its classrooms. CHS science team leader Will Warren and...
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