WAYS TO IMPROVE Education 1 Stop viewing our kids as numbers 2 Less standardized testing 3 Provide actual & appropriate consequences for students to learn from 4 Provide more supports 5 Provide teachers more prep time 6 Smaller class sizes 7 Increase teacher salaries

EMS Teacher Shoutout is Luke and Kendra Henderson. Come see Aladdin this weekend at Edison! Edison Music and Theater Erin Lyons-Barton Meriden K12

It's Friday night and these dedicated Edison Eagles are practicing hard for the CMEA Southern Regional Middle School concert tomorrow hosted by LMS! So proud of these students!!! Erin Lyons-Barton Nathaniel Testroet

We spend 50% more hours in school than Finland. They get 15 mins of recess every hour. They have NO standardized tests except for PISA in HS and they outperform us every time. Ironically, in the 1970's, they modeled their education based on US schools and US university research.

So true.

Anything but a backpack day at EMS. Erin Lyons-Barton Meriden K12

Teachers love Admin who: 1) Roll up their sleeves to help 2) Really listen 3) Present: in classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, lunchroom 4) Value teachers time 5) Support/encourage them 6) Respect /value them 7) Have their back 8] Appreciate them

Sad but so true. 😢 🎙 Unknown

Learning Walks Q4 (Round 2) This time teachers were able to visit any classroom. Grade 8 teachers learning from their colleagues. #NISLyear2 Mr. Bronk Peter Civitello Barbara Haeffner Meriden K12 Nathaniel Testroet Lauren Mancini-Averi

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/aarp…

Successful Spartan Award Night!! Thank you to all the scholarship committees for supporting our students. It was so special to be able to see so many students receive aid for their next steps!

The smoke -- making the Eastern U.S. look like California at the peak of fire season -- is not normal. The air is compromised from Minneapolis to DC to Boston, and the worst from western NY to arround Ottawa. A thread... 1/

Hell on Earth | Updated 48-hour "smoke" forecast through Thursday evening. No improvement. Until these 🇨🇦🔥fires are put out, clouds of smoke will billow southward and then counterclockwise around a low-pressure system over the Northeast. NYC could be blanketed in even

Smoke & haze continue to move in from the north. In this satellite loop, you can see a thicker plume over central NY and northern PA which will be shifting in over the next few hours. Expect a reduction in visibility, poor air quality & the smell of smoke. #NYwx #NJwx #CTwx

Tomorrow morning at exactly 7:15AM ET, 99% of Earth’s entire population will be experiencing some type of daylight (including twilight). That’s ~7.7 billion people! ☀️🌎

Attendance matters!

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Edison's 8th graders loved watching Maloney's Marching Band @ Falcon Field this morning! Erin Lyons-Barton Rob Kosienski, Jr. “Mr K” WhereisBishop? David Kowalchuk

Meriden Public Schools -the best music programs in the state & beyond! Meriden K12