What’s Happening at PATHS

Click here to download the Spring 2008 Newsletter!

The Fashion Merchandising class presents “The Green Carpet”, an “eco-chic fashion show” on Friday, April 4th at the Maine Audubon Society. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show at 7:00. Tickets are $15, seniors and students pay $10. Justin Ellis, from the Portland Press Herald, will be the commentator.

The evening will also feature an ever-popular silent auction that includes bags from Angela Adams and “Sea Bags”.

For tickets and information, call 781-2330 x 215. Read the full press release here.

Map of the Maine Audubon: 20 Gilsland Farm Rd, Falmouth

The list of semester courses for Fall 2008 is now online (click here to see it). There are many exciting offerings!

You can also download a PDF version of the course catalog for 2-year or semester courses online. See the course page for details.

On Thursday, March 13, PATHS will host its annual Advisory Dinner. The dinner is a time for PATHS staff to connect with members of their advisory boards, share what’s happening in various programs, and discuss how to keep improving the PATHS experience.

Dinner begins at 5:00 in the Culinary Concepts dining area. Agenda is TBA.

The PATHS Winter 2007 Newsletter is now available for download:

winter-07-newsletter.pdf

The PATHS Music program is hosting a Sound Harbor Concerts “110 % Benefit Concert on Sunday, October 21st at 7:00 PM.  The concert is titled “An Evening with Tom Acousti and Taylor Mesple” and will be held at the Warren Public Library in Westbrook.  Both are professional musicians with many accollades between them including work on Star Search and the musical “Fame” (Acousti) and sessions work with James Taylor and Keb’ Mo’ (Mesple).  They will be joined on stage by Chad Porter and Will Gattis, both of whom graduated from the PATHS Music Program and are professional musicians performing in and around the Greater Portland area.  The 4 musicians will perform a concert in the “Nashville Round-Robin” style.  Tickets are $20 each (2 tickets & a CD - 45) and ALL proceeds will benefit the Music Program at PATHS.                                       For more info contact Vicki Stubbs at 874-8165 (stubbv@portlandschools.org), or purchase tickets by calling Tom Acousti (207) 329 - 2056 or e-mail your request to HYPERLINK mailto:Tix@TomAcousti.com.          See you at the concert!

This past Friday (September 28,2007) PATHS hosted a sending school Principals/Guidance Counselor informational luncheon.  Twenty-nine (29) representatives attended the event which was held in the Culinary Concepts “Grade A Cafe”.   PATHS teachers Val Green, Joe Robinson, Cathy Dunn and John Carmichael gave a brief overview of each program in the four PATHS clusters.  Student seats still available in several PATHS programs were highlighted in order to encourage Guidance Counselors to fill those slots on a first come-first served basis.

The updated Student Enrollment process was covered by Assistant Director Brian Britting with an accompanying handout packet.  Mr. Britting is the contact person at PATHS for all of the sending schools.

John Marcigliano gave a brief overview of the new and proposed programs at PATHS.  including:   Telecom: Voice/Data/Video [September 2007],  Personal Support Specialist (PSS) [semester class Jan. 2008],  Pre-Engineering [semester class in Jan. 2008], possible 9^th – 10^th grade “pre-voc” class (September 2008) and possible Applied Geometry [semester class September 2008].

Additional topics discussed at the working luncheon included: literacy and numeracy support for PATHS students, Articulation Agreements and Dual Enrollments that PATHS programs have with post-secondary institutions.  A series of questions and answers followed.  The meeting adjourned with an invitation for any Guidance Counselors to visit any PATHS classes (or teachers) which were still in session.  Questions?  Call John Marcigliano at PATHS (874-8165) or: marcij@portlandschools.org

Dear Parents, Students & Friends of PATHS:

You are cordially invited to PATHS Open House on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM.

Tour the PATHS campus, view student demonstrations, meet teachers, support personnel and administrators. You’ll get a true sense of what PATHS technical programs are all about.

Come and experience PATHS - you’ll be glad you did!

Call (207) 874 - 8165 for more information.

The Spring 2007 newsletter is now available here.

The Fall 2006 newsletter is available here.

Check out these photos to see what we mean. More to follow soon.

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