June 17, 2024
VOL. 3, ISSUE 29
EPS Partners with Panorama Education
on 2024 Climate Surveys
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Professional Development Catalog Now Available
Log Into TeachPoint for 2024-25 Offerings
The Everett Public Schools (EPS) Professional Development Catalog for the 2024-2025 school year is now available on TeachPoint. The catalog and course offerings were developed by a joint committee consisting of EPS teachers and administrators who worked collaboratively to provide high-quality PD options across all grade levels and subject areas. Thanks to everyone who put their time and energy into this effort.
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Important Messages from Human Resources
Request for Longevity Pay
Request for Longevity Pay
In order to receive contractually obligated longevity pay, Everett Public Schools (EPS) teachers, administrators, and staff must complete THIS online form. Longevity pay is dispersed per the terms of your respective bargaining unit’s agreement.
Send Us Your Updated Transcripts
The Everett Public Schools is now accepting updated transcripts needed to receive salary increments pursuant to contract provisions. This process must be completed electronically.
Click HERE to access the form and to upload your transcripts. Deadline for submission is August 31, 2024.
The Office of Human Resources does not accept hard copies of transcripts.
Click HERE to access the form and to upload your transcripts. Deadline for submission is August 31, 2024.
The Office of Human Resources does not accept hard copies of transcripts.
Health Deductions for BC/BS PPO, HMO and Harvard Pilgrim
Health Insurance Deduction Changes
Opportunities for Staff
K-12 Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Internalization Team
K-12 Visual and Performing Arts Curriculum Internalization Team
This 10-person team will review the new visual arts and performing arts curriculum to ensure cohesion across the district through development and implementation of district approved curricular products, assessments and resources. The group will also work to revise the current curriculum map to increase academic rigor and cultural responsiveness in our pedagogy district wide.
Meetings, a mix of in-person and Zoom sessions, will be scheduled during mutually convenient dates and times. Asynchronous work will be assigned in between meetings with deadlines throughout Summer 2024 and the 2024-2025 school year. Apply directly via TalentEd.
Meetings, a mix of in-person and Zoom sessions, will be scheduled during mutually convenient dates and times. Asynchronous work will be assigned in between meetings with deadlines throughout Summer 2024 and the 2024-2025 school year. Apply directly via TalentEd.
LIFTS Program Resumes in September
EPS Continues its Partnership with Lesley University
Limited Availability: Interested staff should notify Brian Wallace as soon as possible.
The staff roster is filling up fast and will close once there are 25 staff in the cohort.
EPS Continues its Partnership with Lesley University
Limited Availability: Interested staff should notify Brian Wallace as soon as possible.
The staff roster is filling up fast and will close once there are 25 staff in the cohort.
The EPS is continuing its partnership with the Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity (LIFTS) for the 2024-2025 school year. We are looking for educators to fill out a 25-person cohort to complete graduate courses focused on the impact of trauma on learning. Participants who complete all four courses will earn a Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Learning from Lesley University. With sufficient interest, the program will begin in September of 2024.
Courses, which are each worth three (3) graduate credits, are typically held on Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. With generous funding from the Oak Foundation, Lesley University, and Everett Public Schools, the cost per course for each participant is $250 upon registration, making the total out-of-pocket cost $1,000 per person for the graduate certificate. Each course runs for eight weeks and includes five live Zoom sessions and three self-guided sessions. Courses 1 and 2 will be offered from September-December, and courses 3 and 4 are offered January-May. Courses are designed to be taken one at a time, in order.
If you’re interested in participating in this series, please respond to Brian Wallace. Further details around course dates and instructions for registration and course access will be provided upon registration. For more information on LIFTS, check out the website and the LIFTS Community Hub.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
The Impact of Trauma on Learning: An Overview: An examination of the impact of traumatic experience on student learning (both academic and social/emotional) and provides a structured approach to individual and school wide interventions. The biological, environmental, and sociocultural aspects of traumatic experience will be presented, and participants will analyze the effects of their work with students impacted by trauma on their own well-being (secondary trauma).
The Impact of Trauma on Learning: Classroom and Student Supports: Trauma affects self-regulation, social skills and a child’s sense of health and well-being, along with interfering with more traditional academic skills that require language, memory and executive function. This course will address ways to promote these non-academic and academic competencies for students impacted by trauma, including which competencies can be incorporated into the learning flow (as they benefit all children) and which are best taught with an individual support plan. (Prerequisite: Course 1)
The Impact of Trauma on Learning: Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools: This course is designed to expand knowledge of trauma, its impacts, and the process for building trauma sensitive environments through examination of the underlying change theory, processes, and tools needed to establish trauma sensitivity. Participants demonstrate their understanding by either developing a plan for guiding the creation of a trauma-sensitive school or conducting research grounded in trauma-informed inquiry. (Prerequisites: Courses 1 & 2)
The Impact of Trauma on Learning - Action Research and Seminar: Students demonstrate their understanding of the attributes of trauma-sensitivity by working together to design and conduct research that assesses the outcomes of efforts to improve trauma-sensitivity in classrooms, schools, or other learning environments. (Prerequisites: Courses 1, 2, & 3)
The EPS Scene
Photos from Around the District
Photos from Around the District
Paraprofessional Traci Murphy, teachers Brendan Callahan and Kerri Dinan,
and paraprofessionals Tremara Barboza and Nancy Luongo.
and paraprofessionals Tremara Barboza and Nancy Luongo.
LIFE SKILLS COFFEE SHOP — Students in Everett High School’s Life Skills Program held a Coffee Shop Social on Friday, June 7, 2024. Teacher Brendan Callahan organized and hosted the event, which gave students the chance to celebrate their hard work and success during the 2023-2024 school year. They were joined by their relatives, teachers and administrators, and the student members of the Kiwanis Key Club. The students ran a coffee shop on 24 Fridays during the year. They took pre-orders during the week and delivered coffee and bagels in person every Friday, quickly establishing a routine that became a popular part of Everett High School’s weekly schedule. The students were recognized with Employee of the Week and Employee Recognition Awards for providing a quality service to school faculty and staff.
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3rd ANNUAL PRIDE FLAG RAISING — Everett High School (EHS) held its annual Pride Flag Raising on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Planned by teacher Sean Salazar and the students and advisors in the Gender Sexual Alliance Club, this year’s ceremony was held on a picturesque spring afternoon. It featured performances by the EHS Choir, a solo by Eva Pappas, a duet by Pappas and Rebecca Louine, and student speeches by Anthony Masucci and Tianna Allen. Interim Superintendent Gretchen Manning delivered a welcome message from Central Administration, while the keynote address was given by Federico Erebia, the author of the acclaimed book “Pedro & Daniel.” Pictured above are EHS theater instructor Brittany Mitchell and Keverian School Assistant Principal Keith Spencer.
EVERETT UNIFIED GAME DAY — Fifth-grade students and Webster School staff are pictured at this year’s Everett Unified Game Day. The event, held on Friday, May 31, 2024, at Rivergreen Park, was hosted by Special Olympics and featured students from the Devens, Lafayette, and Webster schools. Thanks to Webster School Special Education kindergarten teacher Erin Hughes for sharing this photo.
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