Lenox school staff to face mandatory, weekly pool testing for COVID
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Lenox School Committee backs universal masking mandate
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LENOX â Amid widespread reports of students facing COVID-related mental health and emotional adjustment issues, the five-year strategic plan adopted by the elected School Committee members last month includes immediate, priority attention to reentry challenges.
A recent national survey by the Education Week Research Center found that at least 25 percent of high school students reported fatigue, difficulty concentrating, feeling isolated from classmates and not finishing schoolwork. Distractions caused by pandemic-related anxieties, worries and fears plagued 21 percent of the students, the survey found.
During a recent remote presentation to the community, a section of the plan presented by Strategic Planning Committee member Erika Baluk-Shepardson, one of four district parents on the 15-member group, emphasized that âit will be critical to continue identifying and addressing mental health challenges triggered or intensified by the pandemic.â
LENOX â The two finalists for Lenox schools superintendent each won strong support from the seven School Committee members after remote interviews Tuesday night.
Beth Choquette, a North Adams native who is an elementary school principal in Northampton, and Marc J. Gosselin Jr., an administrator and former principal in a large suburban district outside Philadelphia, described their leadership visions.
In the fourth hour of their meeting, School Committee members agreed to reconvene at 5:30 p.m. Friday for discussion and a vote on hiring a successor to interim Superintendent William Cameron.
Choquette, previously an elementary school principal in Stamford, Vt., and who recently earned a doctorate in education from Boston College, emphasized equity and inclusive practices for all students. She called for âanti-bias, anti-racist trainingâ for educators, with an emphasis on social justice standards.