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Caps To Connection: Love Elementary Dedicates “Buddy Bench” On Earth Day

S.G. Love Elementary School celebrated Earth Day on April 22 with a special dedication of its first “buddy bench.” Two years ago, Love Elementary School special education teacher Hannah Nickeson’s mother Ellie asked a simple question: “Does Love School have a buddy bench?” At the ...

PACT Program Strengthens Connections

For more than three decades, the PACT Program — Parents and Children Together — has played a vital role in strengthening the connection between families and schools at Love Elementary School. Established over 35 years ago as part of the Jamestown Community Learning Council, the program is ...

Young Playwrights Project Inspires Creativity, Confidence At Love School

Fourth grade students in Lori Cobb’s and Mackenzie Zuech’s classes at Love Elementary School are bringing their ideas to life through the Chautauqua Institution’s Young Playwrights Project, a program designed to help students explore storytelling, writing and performance in a meaningful ...

Read 180 Helping Close Literacy Gap

For students at Washington Middle School, the path to literacy is becoming increasingly personalized. As Jamestown Public Schools enters its third year of a district-wide transition to a comprehensive literacy curriculum through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Washington reading teachers John ...

Ashley Cruz Combines Connection, Innovation As Washington Teacher

For Ashley Cruz, the hallways of Washington Middle School are more than just a place of work — they are home. Now in her sixth year with Jamestown Public Schools and her second at Washington, Cruz brings a unique perspective to her fifth-grade classroom: she once walked these same halls as a ...