BELFAST — Registration is open for two new online professional development programs through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center.
The…
Education
understanding Maine’s changing housing needs, identifying viable policy interventions
ROCKLAND — Celena Zacchai, a local UMA Rockland student, is a 2020 Maine Policy Scholar; a collaborative program with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, the Maine Community Foundation, and…
CAMDEN — It’s the final housecleaning at Camden-Rockport Middle School in Camden before the buildings start getting demolished. In preparation,
“We are selling items and offering some for…
U.S. News and World Report high school rankings
The U.S. News and World Report rankings for high schools have…
Maine’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI Maine) has announced the launch of the Teen Text Support Line, a new mental health program for youth ages 14 to 20 living in Maine…
UMA’s first graduate degree program
Beginning this fall, the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) and University of Southern Maine (USM) will offer a Master of Science in Cybersecurity that will be available through the UMA Rockland…
ROCKPORT — The U.S. Department of Education announced April 22 Camden Hills Regional High School is among the 2020 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award honorees, and one of only…
ORONO — The University of Maine System has formed a Fall 2020 Safe Return Planning Committee to develop operational plans and protocols to safely welcome students, employees, and the…
ROCKLAND — UMA Rockland’s summer schedule includes hundreds of fully online courses and also several courses which will have a “real time” web conferencing component which are very suitable for…
The Intersection of Education and Industry
Five Towns CSD has submitted the following update regarding the 2020 Innovation Conference:
Given the current situation with COVID-19, we have decided to postpone the Innovation…
an alumni gathering since 1939
The St George Alumni Association has submitted the following statement:
The St George Alumni Association regrets to announce the cancellation of the 2020 Annual Banquet scheduled…
Knox County Homeless Coalition, MCH/Meals on Wheels
Camden Rotary Club has submitted the following statement:
The Camden Rotary Club has deployed an emergency task force to help nonprofit…
Libraries, schools, university steps up to offer free ‘study-from-your-car’ WiFi hotspots
When Maine schools closed in mid-March due to COVID-19, it was supposed to be temporary with schools switching to a remote learning option for only two weeks. Gov. Mills’ stay-at-home order then…
The College Board has released the new AP Exam schedule, which includes optional free, online AP classes and take-at-home AP Exams to support the challenges that students and families are facing…
hundreds of courses delivered in a variety of remote learning modalities
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Center of the University of Maine at Augusta has opened registration for its summer and fall term courses.
Both terms feature hundreds of courses delivered in a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Education Committee, announced April 13 that Maine institutions of higher education will receive a…
The following letter was distributed by the RSU 20 Superintendent:
To RSU 20 Students, Parents, Guardians, Staff and Community Members,
Per Maine Commissioner of Education…
The following was shared April 10 by the administrative team at RSU 13:
To Our RSU 13 Families:
As of this week, and referenced as a possibility in last week’s letter, we…
online courses available, ideas for future programs welcome
Five Town CSD Adult Education has submitted the following statement:
Like education programs all over Maine and the U.S. right now, Five Town Adult Education has been working…
Rural Aspirations, in collaboration with many other cross-sector organizations, has developed a tool for teachers and families to support and highlight community-based learning opportunities in…
New Ventures Maine
New Ventures Maine is offering free online workshops on a number of business-related topics.
New Ventures Maine helps Maine people find success in their jobs, businesses and communities…
The following letter was shared April 8 by the St. George MSU Superintendent:
Dear Families,
Yesterday evening, the Maine Commissioner of Education Pender Mankins, with the…
working on alternative ways to safely redesign graduation
The following letter was sent to parents in the Five Town CSD and SAD 28 today from Superintendent Maria Libby: …
The Maine Department of Education released the following statement April 9 about the recent recommendation to continue remote learning plans:
On Tuesday evening, March 7, 2020,…
Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 290 students who will make up the…
University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy is poised to appoint Leigh Ingalls Saufley as the next dean of the University of Maine School of Law. Saufley was selected after an…
Islesboro Central School Head of School Chuck Hamm distributed the following letter April 8:
Dear ICS Community,
State of Maine’s Commissioner of Education, Pendor Makin,…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills and Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin issued a recommendation April 7 to educators to begin plans to continue distance learning for the…
Industrial Arts
“Does this count as school?”
That question, now a wise-aleck remark uttered with rolled eyes or a wink, is a Murray family one-liner.
…
ROCKPORT and HOPE — Gone (temporarily) are the days of gymnasiums filled with the sounds of children jumping rope and playing dodgeball.
With the COVID-19 pandemic closing school campuses…
PORTLAND — An educational nonprofit based in Portland, and with reach across the entire state, is responding to calls for support from teachers around Maine.
Educate Maine announced March…
‘We hope to support the community as long there is this great need’
BELFAST — While schools across the state, and nation, have adapted to remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornerspring Montessori School in Belfast has gone one step further by ensuring…
selected from a large field of candidates
ROCKLAND — A Rockland resident was one of five University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) students who participated in an educational opportunity during March break through the…
Applications are currently being accepted at the Maine Community Foundation for the Lydia R. Laurendeau Scholarship Fund.
Established in 2013, the Laurendeau Fund provides renewable…
online and remote-access courses, as well as Early College students
BELFAST — Summer registration is open at the Hutchinson Center for University of Maine undergraduate and graduate summer online and remote-access courses and for Early College students offered at…
more than 20 free community webinars
The Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter will begin offering education programs online amid the COVID-19 outbreak as the association continues to pursue its mission. While the Alzheimer’s…
The Board of Directors of Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.) has awarded four grants to schools in Camden and Rockport. These projects and programs will further SEA’s mission to increase…
The following was shared by Islesboro Central School’s Head of School, Chuck Hamm:
Dear ICS Community,
Governor Janet Mills recently announced a shelter in place order for…
The following was shared by the Maine Department of Education from Commissioner Pender Makin:
Dear Champions of Education,
Yesterday, Governor Mills issued a “stay at home…
AUGUSTA — With the approval of an additional waiver submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and additional bulk packaging options, the Maine Department of Education has been able to…
ROCKPORT — The Five Town CSD Board of Directors will convene this evening, April 1, in the Chorus Room at Camden Hills Regional High School, via Zoom, to address an agenda that includes education…
special May 1 deadline for 2020 summer semester
The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) seeks applications to its Adult Learner Scholarship Fund, which supports non-traditional students who want to change their lives for the better through…
VINALHAVEN — The Vinalhaven School is seeking to add a principal and an assistant principal to its administrative team, a move that would separate the recently combined superintendent and…
The following was sent by RSU Superintendent Mary Alice McLean, March 28:
Many people in the community have…
Many Littles are feeling isolated and are experiencing tremendous loss and loneliness
Big Sister Rachael Rademacher and her 7-year-old Little Sister, Abby Erickson, haven’t seen each other since March 8, just a week before the Coronavirus pandemic shut down their weekly meetings as…
‘planning for the day when we will come back together to teach the empowering lessons’
ROCKLAND — During the disruption presented by the COVID-19 crisis, we have the opportunity to take stock of what is most important and what kind of people and organizations we want to be when we…
ROCKLAND — Accessibility to essential hygiene products was made easier at South School in Rockland earlier this school year, and the accessibility remains amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, even…
AUGUSTA — A bill by Sen. Erin Herbig, D-Belfast, to support Maine Ocean School has been signed into law by Governor Janet Mills.
The new law, LD 2020, “An Act To Strengthen Maritime…
In a letter read March 25 to the Region School Board, which oversees the Mid-Coast School of Technology, in Rockland, Director Beth Fisher said the following: I would like to thank the…
Region 8 (Midcoast School of Technology) will use Zoom this evening, RSU 13 to livestream March 26
Municipalities and school districts are quickly adjusting to a novel way of holding and conducting meetings, while COVID-19 shutters town offices, schools and offices. With meetings now restricted…
