After leasing 22 Waverly Place, the old St. Casimir's Parish School, from the Diocese of Worcester for 30 years to house the district's alternative school program, the district is not renewing the lease.
Last Call with Andrea Cameron, Forest Grove teacher and community gardener
Sarah Connell Sanders
Correspondent
Andrea Cameron spent the last year developing a flexible curriculum for the Community Teaching Garden and Literacy Project. Woodward Day School has already begun to use elements of the curriculum and Forest Grove Middle School, where Cameron teaches, will launch this project as an after-school club when COVID-19 protocols allow for it.
How long have you been in Worcester?
I grew up in Worcester over by St. Peter Marion. Now, I own a house in the Indian Lake neighborhood. I bought it about seven years ago. I work at Forest Grove, which is right down the hill from the lake. I met Carl Gomes two summers ago. He had an end-of-the-summer neighborhood block party. When I met him, he started talking about his vision for a community garden. I shared with him that I worked at Forest Grove and I loved his idea. Shortly after, I began working with him on a curriculum that we coul
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WORCESTER Despite the city’s flower beds being entombed in a frozen crust, the Indian Lake Community Association is looking forward to start phase one of its “Community Teaching Garden Literacy Project.”
The association was planning to complete phase one Saturday, Feb. 13, but Mother Nature had other plans. They are now shooting for March 13, the one year anniversary of the Commonwealth-wide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The site of the garden will be on West Boylston Drive on the parcel of land that was part of the West Boylston Drive Barrier Wall replacement project, Carl Gomes, president of the Indian Lake Community Association Inc., said.
HUDSON Marco Rodrigues will continue to lead Hudson schools for the next three years.
Rodrigues Hudson’s superintendent since 2017 and the School Committee on Tuesday agreed to a three-year contract extension through June 30, 2024. Rodrigues’ contract was set to expire next July 1.
“I really appreciate your vote of confidence,” Rodrigues told committee members shortly after they unanimously approved the extension.
Details of the contract were not available Wednesday. Committee members did not discuss details of the contract during Tuesday night’s meeting.
School Committee Chairman Steven Smith highlighted Rodrigues’ performance and the upward trajectory of the district under the superintendent’s leadership. Smith lauded Rodrigues’ efforts to create multi-tiered systems of support for students and staff, increase instructional support teams, expand the district’s 1:1 technology program, implement the state seal of biliteracy program, expand the career p