Comments for Portland Public School Department

Comment on Portland School Naming Subcommittee Asks You to Name Our New School by Susan Dyer Taylor

Susan Dyer Taylor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:17 +0000

Famous writers who lived in Maine…

Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School…lived in Raymond, ME during his teen years and attended Bowdoin College.

E.B. White Elementary School (1899-1995)…wrote Charlote’s Web after moving to a farm in Brooklin, ME in 1938.

Stephen (and Tabitha) King Elementary School…born in Portland, Maine in 1947.

Given that the school will be built on Ocean Avenue and Portland has a rich history in ship building and commercial fishing that are synonymous with New England culture, how about…

North Atlantic Elementary School
Spirit of the Atlantic Elementary School
Windward Elementary School
Portland Lighthouse Elementary School

I worked as an educator for Portland schools many years and have spent the last eight years working at Long Creek Youth Development Center and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department as a teacher and administrator. I current work at Portland Adult Education two evenings each week at the West School site.

Susan Dyer Taylor
21 Clearview Drive
Scarborough, maine 04074
207-510-1418H
207-838-7801C
207-822-2600W
207-874-8155 PAE West

Comment on Portland School Naming Subcommittee Asks You to Name Our New School by Zach Lee

Zach Lee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:19:22 +0000

Joshua Chamberlain was a great historical figure in our state and in our nation. He also was a great educational leader. Joshua Chamberlain Elementary School sounds good to me.

Zach Lee

Comment on ESL Student Writers Featured in New Book by Bev Robinson

Bev Robinson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:05:13 +0000

Congrats to students and to Christina Mitchell. It is not always easy to tell your story. Thanks for having the courage.
Bev

Comment on Students Named National Merit Finalists by Leslie Ross-Papkee

Leslie Ross-Papkee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:38 +0000

It is an honor to have had these students in Portland’s program for gifted and talented students, which then was called Project Exploration. Both students are not just bright, but articulate, civic minded, ethical and full of life and wonder.
Congratulations to both Gavin and Christine! I am not surpirsed in the least to see your names “up in lights.”

Ms. Ross-Papkee

Comment on Lincoln Teacher Wins Science Award by Olga LaPlante

Olga LaPlante — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:31:52 +0000

Wonderful job! Congratulations! Proud to know you, and have worked with you!

Comment on Lincoln Teacher Wins Science Award by ann adams

ann adams — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:32:14 +0000

Hi Ms. Driscoll,
Congratulations on your wonderful initiatives and awards! Teachers can make the biggest difference is the lives of their students and communities!
I live in Portland and am working with the cool communities initiative sponsored by the Sierra Club, Maine Lung Association, doctors for Social Responsibility and Maine council of churches. This program attempts to have communities analyze their energy use and create plans to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. Now that the city has created its sustainability plan, I am hoping that we can work to produce some real change to reduce our emissions. At our last meeting in December, I spoke about your school’s initiative in creating the geodesic dome and agreed to find out more about what your students are doing regarding energy consumption and alternative energy. Would you or another teacher kindly advise me accordingly?
My children graduated from Deering High and at that time I was aware of various schools creating green teams and working toward their own set of goals. Do you have such a team at your school? As a member of the community without children currently in the system, I feel that there is likely a lot happening in our schools regarding climate change and learning about new technologies, as these solutions are vital to our children’s future, yet I am totally ignorant of what is being done. This is an area that I think “children as teachers” would lend itself to and be of a huge benefit to our community. Would you kindly update me on your schools current initiatives or direct me to an informative resource? Also kindly advise if your school might like to explore ways in which it could help our community’s work in this area?
Thank you, Ann Adams, 56 Mackworth Street, Portland, Maine 04103 774-7989 annadams10@hotmail.com

Comment on Lincoln Teacher Wins Science Award by Libby Barnes

Libby Barnes — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:27 +0000

That’s awesome! Hopefully I will get her next year as a science teacher! Congrats!

Comment on Casco Bay Students Elect Representative by Will Nelligan

Will Nelligan — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:44:53 +0000

What a great honor for CBHS and for Bennett himself. I’ve known Bennett since we went to King Middle School together, and from day one, I recognized him as a caring, compassionate, and intelligent person with a great outlook on life. We could not have picked a better student representative than Bennett Gross.

Congrats.

Comment on Recent Awards and Honors for the Portland Public Schools by Constance Hollinger

Constance Hollinger — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:14:20 +0000

Looking to relocate and am interested in schol Info for K-8 or what your private schools are?? Thank-you

Comment on Nathan Clifford School Installs Environmental Sculpture by rj

rj — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:30:03 +0000

I have a book entitled Vans (by Sheffer) that has a property stamp of Nathan Clifford Library. I searched your catalog, but this author/title combo isn’t listed (the pub date is 1981, so I’m guessing it may have been weeded?) and there is no indication that it has been deselected. Do you want it sent back? I didn’t find any other Nathan Clifford Library hits, so I am guessing that this is/was your item? It has a barcode # (on the back cover) of 810949.
My phone # is 602.347.4319 and I am the librarian at Sunnyslope Elementary School in Phoenix, AZ. Please advise. Thank you very much.

RJ Sambora