| Teaching American History
Dr. Gary Reese |
A few years ago, Burlington Public Schools invited us and some other districts to partner with them to apply for a federal Teaching American History grant. This past summer, the grant was finally approved.This grant will provide a variety of professional development opportunities to our history teachers over the next four years. At this time, the first cohort is forming for the 2009-2010 school year. The theme for this school year is Dreams of Freedom and Bounty: Immigration to America. We would like to thank Jane Hundley from the Burlington Public School for all of her hard work on this grant.
Teachers: This year's program is open to grade 3 and 5 teachers, as well as middle and high school history teachers. Space is limited!!! Registration requests must be received by September 30, 2009. For more information about the program, visit the curriculum tab on our Sharepoint site (http://sharepoint ). You have to be signed onto a school computer to access our local intranet.
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Mark Donovan
Superintendent
Woburn Public Schools
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Woburn Public Schools
As our district
The Joyce Middle School recently kicked off its 36th annual magazine drive with students selling magazines to relatives and friends. If you have not been contacted and would like to buy or renew magazine subscriptions you may go to www.QSP.com, click on shop now, and enter 425016009 in the organization number and 40% of your purchase will go towards our school. 
At a recent meeting of the Woburn School Committee, Assistant Superintendent Gary Reese and I outlined our areas of focus for the new school year. My focus areas are:
The Technology Department is very excited to begin this new school year. We had 12 Middle and High School teachers take an online course this summer to learn how to create an online course. The coursework was offered via Framingham State College and The Learning Curve.
At the Clapp-Goodyear, we are moved in and enjoying our new expanded learning space. Along with 8 new modular classrooms, we added increased playground space. In addition,many traffic and safety additions were made. The boys and girls from both the Clapp and the Goodyear seem very happy in our school and have reported loving their new friends! We are making lots of plans and have reshifted our schedules here. We are also offering a before school program as well as an afterschool program. We have combined with the YMCA to offer quality service to children during our afternoons. We are excited about this year!
