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Students and staff from Southern New Hampshire University purchased 369 gifts for eight community organizations. 70 of those generous gifts came to our school district to help Manchester's middle and high school students who could use a holiday boost. Our school district social workers picked up the gifts and some of the university's athletes, including memebrs of the womens' lacrosse team, were on hand to help load the vehicles. ​Bonnie Lorento, O ffice Manager at the ​Center for Community Engaged Learning at ​Southern New Hampshire University  has been coordinating this effort for the past several years, and we are so grateful!

Manchester School of Technology is open for enrollment in next year's 2- and 4-year programs. MST-HS uses competency-based education providing rigorous academics in combination with career and technical education (CTE) classes.   Current eighth graders can apply to MST-HS by February 17 . Students for the class of 2021 will be chosen by lottery.  Current high school sophomores interested in the Career and Technical Education program can register at the end of this school year for the courses they're interested in at their home schools. Transportation is provided for students spending part of their school day at MST. The CTE program serves  juniors and seniors from Manchester and surrounding towns.  Learn more at  http://mst.mansd.org/home  and watch the student-produced video below!

There’s a community experiment going on at West High School that by all accounts seems to be successful. Now in its second week, the “Before I Die” project allows students and staff to anonymously reveal their deepest hopes, life goals, and dreams on chalkboard walls. Anyone can pick up a piece of chalk and complete the stenciled sentence, “Before I die I want to. . . .” with whatever their personal aspirations are. A group of English learner students spearheaded the project at West, inspired by a New Orleans artist they learned about in class. Candy Chang created the very first “Before I Die” wall in her own neighborhood. Since 2011, more than 1,000 Before I Die walls have been created in at least 70 countries, in over 35 languages. Most of those walls are community projects. We know of just one other Before I Die wall in New Hampshire -- created in Portsmouth -- but the ones at West are the first ever in a school. The EL students monitor the walls they created in a stair...

Eighteen outstanding high school juniors and seniors have been selected to teach in the school-year Super Saturday program at Breakthrough Manchester. Seven of those students are from Central and West high schools! Applicants were chosen after a review of their written application, a teacher recommendation, their transcript, a group collaborative exercise, and a mock teaching trial. Congratulations to  Andy Vo, Monericka Semeran, Lejla Hodzic, Arielys Liriano, Haley Nalen, Emma Nyngwara, and Carolina Patino. The mission of Breakthrough Manchester is to launch promising Manchester middle school students, particularly those with limited opportunities, on the path to college while inspiring high school and college students to pursue careers in education. Sixth graders from Manchester middle schools apply and are selected for a tuition-free, three-year program that academic summers and school year supports. All Breakthrough programming, including transportation and meals, is...

The Boston Celtics​ and Southern New Hampshire University​ have done it again! For the third time since 2014, the two organizations have partnered to create a new space dedicated to enhanced learning through technology in a Manchester school. Like the labs at McLaughlin and Hillside middle schools, the classroom at Parkside was transformed with Celtics green paint and graphics on the walls, new furniture, 30 Chromebooks, and a wall-mounted TV monitor. The room is adjacent to the school's media center to make collaboration of special projects easy. Joining Parkside students, administrators and teachers at today's unveiling were Dr. Vargas, Mayor Gatsas, as well as school board members Erika Connors and Rich Girard. Representing SNHU was Dr. Gwen Britton, executive director of online STEM programs for the university. She help facilitate a computer coding activity for the students who took part in the lab dedication event. Boston Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko and form...

When students and staff at Gossler Park Elementary School heard that an apartment fire affected some of the school district’s  Bhutanese  families, they wanted to help. The fire on Spruce Street in Manchester back in August forced about 20 people from their homes in the building, and they lost nearly everything. Most of the people who lived there are refugees from Bhutan, a country in South Asia. The effort to help victims of the fire started with a class of second graders, who offered to save their popcorn money to donate. Then the Gossler Park parent-teacher group which sells the popcorn as a school fundraiser decided to donate two weeks’ worth of sales. The school also accepted contributions from parents who attended Gossler Park’s Harvest Fest this fall. Word spread throughout the school district, and additional schools stepped up to make donations to the cause through their own fundraisers. Among them are Bakersville, Hallsville, Wilson, Parker-Varney, Weston, a...