Mary Hogan getting creative to fill positions

Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary School is getting creative with its staffing to mitigate the impacts of a major, ongoing shortage of paraeducators.

In fair Verona we know too well the desperate tragedy that befalls “two households both alike in dignity” — ah, yes, good ol’ “Romeo and Juliet.” But what does that play look like when you transport it to the classroom of fourth- and fifth-graders?

A program run through the Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement is helping local elementary students add another key skill to their toolkit — cooking.

Led by instructor Nick Cantrick, the high school students constructed a lean-to and outdoor kitchen for the preschool playground.

On behalf of the entire staff at Mary Hogan, I would like to express our deep appreciation to MESA for all they do on behalf of the Mary Hogan Community.

Mary Hogan Elementary School teachers have asked the Addison Central School District board for more resources — and to preserve a key, student-discipline position that’s slated to be cut this summer — in response to a growing number of student behavior is … (read more)

Elias Urang delivered a master class in social justice and the democratic process at Monday’s Addison Central School District board meeting. And he’s only 9 years old.

A recent spate of teacher illnesses and a persistent lack of substitute educators and paraprofessionals has prompted Mary Hogan Elementary School to ask the Addison Central School District central office and the community at large to help solve its workfo … (read more)

As we think back to the challenges and successes of the past few years, MESA has been in our corner every step of the way.

As she approaches her 69th birthday, Shoreham’s Diane Bolduc has seen and done a lot — most of it associated with farming and her passion for seeing young children thrive in the classroom, something she’s done for decades as a paraeducator at Middlebury’s … (read more)

Snowdemort, Snowbe Bryant and many more newly named snowplows will join the 163 previously named plows on the roads in Vermont’s upcoming blizzards.

The thirst for a major Mary Hogan mural goes back a long way, according to Michael Kin, whose talents first captured the imagination of many Addison County residents while he was artistic director at Aqua ViTea.

Stephen McKinney, a Mead, Wash., native who has spent the past seven years as an educator in China, has been named the new assistant principal of Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary School.

Two educators are vying to become Mary Hogan Elementary’s next assistant principal.

The Mary Hogan Preschool Program, Frog Hollow Bikes and Safe Routes Middlebury recently partnered to bring six new balance bicycles to the preschool at the Middlebury school.