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Pittsburgh Public Schools CTE Teachers Support Frontline Workers During the Pandemic

Using the training tools and techniques provided to their students, teachers in the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Division of Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) are doing their part to support frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic… More

BSSD staff raises over $10K to feed district families

More than 125 district employees from all six buildings, including teachers, aides, administrators, secretaries and custodians have combined to raise more than $10,000 for the Big Spring Area Food Bank and the PAW Packs program… More

Surprise parade celebrates Boone graduates

Volunteers from the Blazer Education Foundation, Daniel Boone teachers, Daniel Boone administration, members of the Daniel Boone School Board, borough and township officials, and the police and fire department all participated in a parade to congratulate the Daniel Boone Class of 2020. They visited all 263 homes of the senior class… More

Southern Tioga teacher creates 3D face shields

Josh Beals and a team of volunteers have collectively created nearly 1,000 face shields and are distributing the masks through the Tioga County COVID-19 Task Force. This has been a community effort as supplies were donated from the Wellsboro Area School District, Southern Tioga School District and New Covenant Academy… More

Abington students get graduation greeting from the sky

A congratulatory banner flew over the Abington Senior High School campus and each of the district’s seven elementary schools to lift the spirits of the Abington Township’s 2020 graduating class… More

Leechburg Area School District to hold graduation at Riverside Drive-In

Leechburg Area School District is giving its high school seniors the movie-star treatment this year. Leechburg Area will honor its 73 graduates at Riverside Drive-In in Parks, which has been allowed to reopen as part of Gov. Tom Wolf’s phased plan to reopen Pennsylvania’s economy… More

Pocono Raceway to host 4 high school graduation ceremonies

Pocono Raceway will host four local high school graduation ceremonies that students will be able to experience from inside their personal vehicles… More

Elizabethtown Area High School honors seniors with individualized graduation ceremonies

The journey to get to a high school graduation can take many paths. Seniors from this year’s graduating class know that all too well since they have missed many milestones because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Elizabethtown Area School District is trying to make sure their 309 graduating seniors miss one less milestone… More

Penn-Trafford elementary students attend online concert

Mrs. Andrea Frescura’s second-grade music students from Harrison Park, Sunrise and Level Green Elementary Schools (Penn-Trafford School District) recently attended virtual orchestra performances by several ensembles, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Brass Section… More

Norwin teachers make face shields for ambulance service, school nurse sews masks

Two Norwin teachers with experience on their school’s 3D printer, recently produced 40 plastic face shields for a local ambulance service… More