“This program is in direct alignment with our district goals to diversify our staff, 85% of the students are BIPOC and majority also speak a home language in addition to English,” said LPS Coordinator of Special Programs Carolyn Rocheleau. The program provides high school students with real life experience and exposes them to career opportunities in education, while also paying them $15 an hour. The program, in its pilot year, is funded by a grant the district received from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, as well as some federal Title 1 funding and COVID relief funds. She is one of 50 Lowell High School students participating in a paid internship program this summer in the city’s elementary schools. While other kids her age are scooping ice cream or bagging groceries this summer, Lorena Minikowski, 16, is threading pipe cleaners through holes in paper plates and tying little silver bells to them – helping Kindergarten students in the McAvinnue Elementary School summer program make their very own tambourines. I hope you enjoy the final weeks of summer and see you at the.Back to School Block Party this Friday! But, when it was my turn to interact with an animal, out came a 7-foot long Burmese Python named SpongeBob. There was a hedgehog, a lion-headed bunny named Chewbacca and a curious little gecko named Spiderman. I was able to stop by several of our programs over the course of the summer, including one day at the Lincoln School when our friends from Animal Adventures dropped by to introduce our PreK students to some new furry (and not so furry) friends. The program, which you can read more about in this newsletter, provided exposure to careers in education to our high school students and gave the elementary students older kids to look up to and emulate. This summer we were also able to offer paid internships to 50 Lowell High School students to work as teaching assistants in our elementary summer school programs. We were able to provide transportation, meals, and offer field trips, enrichment, and academic programs in every Lowell Public school that both engaged students in fun activities and helped to bridge the achievement gaps and learning loss created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year we held our biggest summer school program ever – with more than 4,000 students participating in 40 different programs throughout the district. Learning never stops in Lowell, even over summer break. If you cannot make it on Wednesday night, don’t worry the session will be recorded and available the next day on our social media channels and website. You can find more information about this session, including how to register, in this newsletter. there will be an information session on Zoom to answer all of your school transportation questions for the upcoming year, as well as demonstrate how to use our new bus look-up tool. We cannot wait to see all of you there on Friday! Administrators, teachers, and staff from all Lowell Public Schools will be there it is a great way to connect with a school that may be new to you and your children or to reconnect with a school to which you are returning. There will be food, music, entertainment, games, and free backpacks stuffed with school supplies while supplies last. In what has become an annual tradition, we will kick off the new school year with our Back-to-School Block Party at JFK Plaza next to City Hall on Friday August 19 from 11 a.m. I hope you all had a fun summer break and are excited to return to school for the 2022-23 school year!
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