The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recently named Lallier one of five finalists for its 2017 School Counselor of the Year Award. According to the ASCA, the finalists were chosen for their innovations, their leadership and their advocacy.
Earlier this year, the association conferred its Recognized ASCA Model Program award on Dothan Brook School, the second Vermont school and the first elementary institution in the state to earn the honor. The designation cited Lallier, the state’s school counselor of the year, as a key staff member.
Other nominees for the national award are from South Carolina, Georgia, California and Michigan. Lallier and the other finalists will travel to Washington, D.C., with their principals and representatives of their state associations, to be honored at the White House.
Sage Fletcher of Springfield, N.H., is one of 22 Proctor Academy students serving as the crew of the schooner Roseway, on a voyage down the Eastern Seaboard toward Cuba.
During Proctor’s annual semester-at-sea trip, Fletcher and her classmates left Gloucester Harbor on Massachusetts’ North Shore on Sept. 23, and so far have visited Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and New York Harbor. Ahead of Hurricane Matthew, the 137-foot, 91-year-old vessel pulled into Baltimore Harbor last week to wait for calmer seas before proceeding to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Cuba’s Havana Harbor. To follow the progress of the trip, visit blogs.proctoracademy.org.
Fletcher is a junior at Proctor, a private school in Andover, N.H.
Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Claremont Middle School last week wrapped up the first phase of a program aimed at developing “skills for successful learners” through applying classroom lessons through outreach to their community.
In sixth grade, 166 students under the guidance of school social worker Courtney Porter have been exploring the topic of emergency preparedness through reading books, discussing the issues among themselves and consulting with community leaders.
Meanwhile, 138 seventh-graders have been working on the topics of kindness and acceptance and 127 eighth-graders are focusing on foster care. Porter said recently that after reading up on their class subjects, students drafted letters to local businesses to gather donated items and bring guest speakers to the school.
Middle school students at the Lyme School are sharing stories with and learning from peers in the Middle East about health issues involving their age group in their respective countries.
As part of the Healthy Schools International project, the students last month shared an online video conference with Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Also, Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth physician Amer Al-Nimr and Jordanian exchange physician Ali Nawras talked to Lyme students about the project, and about growing up and attending public schools in Jordan.
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts is inviting art teachers, school administrators, teaching artists and parents to the 22nd annual The Arts are Essential conference in Claremont on Nov. 11 and 12.
In addition to presentations by Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and Boston Ballet Director Zakiya Thomas, artists will lead workshops on topics ranging from Animating Shakespeare and Advocacy for Arts Education to Music is for Everyone and iPad Animations.
Fees for are $60 to $100 for the full conference and $40 to $70 for a single day. To register and learn more, visit nh.gov/nharts or email julianne.gadoury@dcr.nh.gov.
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Correction
Rebecca Lallier is a school counselor at Dothan Brook School. An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported her position at the school.