School board packs agendas with big-picture decisions before summer break
Like students headed toward final exams, the Harwood Unified Union School Board has a significant number of subjects to juggle as it heads toward its summer recess at the end of June.
Principals to school board: Halt firing investigation
The case involving the firing of Harwood Union High School’s boys hockey coach in February has gone into overtime after 14 administrators in the district asked the school board to halt its investigation of the matter.
Digging, planting, singing
Members of the Crossett Brook Middle School fifth-grade chorus planted an Autumn Blaze maple tree on the school campus last week, the 24th year the Waterbury Rotary Club has gifted a tree to the school.
Students lead the way in discussing systemic racism in schools, community
In a recent online community forum led by Harwood Union High School students, community members faced questions about what students, teachers, and local residents should do to acknowledge and confront individual and systemic racism.
Contract talks with Harwood Union teachers enter mediation phase
Contract talks with teachers in the Harwood Unified Union School District have entered the mediation phase with just several weeks remaining on the current labor contract.
School board seeks investigator to review hockey coach firing decision
The Harwood Union School Board has finally waded into a public discussion of the controversial decision in February to fire Harwood Union Boys Hockey Coach Jacob Grout at the outset of the winter hockey season.
‘The Fantasticks’: Harwood stages outdoor musical at Camp Meade
Harwood Union High School’s theater program presents the musical “The Fantasticks” May 13-15 outdoors at Camp Meade in Middlesex.
Harwood invites the public to ‘Online Community Dialogue on Race’ April 29
A Harwood Union High School class focusing on issues of racial justice invites the community to an online discussion about issues of racism in our schools and our community this Thursday, April 29, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Students take part in virtual UVM Math Fair
The following fifth- and sixth-grade students from the Harwood Unified Union School District recently took part in the annual UVM Math Fair. The event was held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Harwood schools to finish the year in person 4 days a week
Administrators in the Harwood Unified Union School District are working on updating the school schedule and hybrid format to potentially add more in-person instruction for students in the final weeks of the school year following April break.
School district honors two staff, announces new TBPS co-principals
In dual announcements this week, the Harwood Unified Union School District introduced new co-principals for Thatcher Brook Primary School for next school year and nominated two local school staffers for a statewide honor next month at a UVM ceremony.
Parents launch ‘Covid Sucks!!’ activities to get 7th-8th graders reconnected
The sun was shining both days this past week as groups of Crossett Brook Middle Schoolers spent time outside at Hope Davey Field playing wiffleball on what otherwise would have been just another remote school day.
Harwood to stage a pandemic-adapted spring musical, ‘The Fantasticks’
The pandemic has robbed teenagers of many core experiences of adolescence, but the theatre program at Harwood Union High School is determined to offer its students a sense of connection through their production of the musical “The Fantasticks” this spring.
Ending the school year on a high note
With fewer than three months to go in the 2020-21 school year, there’s much discussion around how to end on a better note than it began. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives including school students from preschool through university.
Busy first session for post-election Harwood Union school board
In its first meeting post-Town Meeting Day, the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board got down to business electing new board leaders, announcing new principals for the district’s largest elementary school and reversing a decision to cut one of the two teaching teams at Harwood Middle School next fall.
School district offers $40.39 million budget, plans for $2.2 million surplus
The effects of COVID-19 ripple through Vermont 2021 Town Meeting Day as ballots replace meetings and, in the case of the Harwood Unified Union School District, voters need to weigh in on both a $40.39 million budget and plans for a $2.2 million surplus from 2020.
Thatcher Brook Primary School preschool registration opens March 3
It’s that time of year again to begin to think about preschool for your 3- or 4-year-old.
6-6 vote prevails as school board cuts middle school team teachers for fall
Contrary to its name, the Harwood Union School Board was anything but unified this week as it voted 6-6 on cutting four teaching positions at Harwood Middle School for next fall.
School board to consider fewer 7-8 teachers, bigger classes for next fall
The Harwood Unified Union School Board tonight expects to continue its discussion about renaming Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury and it also plans to act on a proposal that would cut four teachers from Harwood Union Middle School for the 2021-22 school year.