Hinesburg Community School

Posted on September 9, 2005

Yesterday I spent the day at the Hinesburg Community School. What a pleasure for me! HCS is beginning the second year of implementation of the Supportive Classroom curriculum. I met with Debi Price, the "new" principal and heard about all of the great things they have already begun and it is only the second week of school. The faculty and staff kicked off the first day of school with all grade level assemblies throughout the day. They played group games to help the students get to know each other and to start off school in a fun, welcoming manner. Ms. Price and Ms. Stebbins, the assistant principal, also presented several shot, fun skits demonstrating the Core Concepts. Students had to guess which Core Concept they were trying to demonstrate. By all accounts the day was a great success!

I spent most of the day visiting classrooms and observing on the playground and in the cafeteria. Visit the Classroom Area of this blog and read about a few fun activities I observed. I also met with the support staff who supervise the students at recess and in the cafeteria. I will be leading four half day in-services days for the support staff this year so we began the process of deciding what we would do that would be helpful to them. I will have more on this when our planning is complete.

HCS is off to a great start to the year.