Day: January 15, 2023

Hello Gloucester Public Schools Families,

Gloucester High School has reached an important milestone that we want to make sure all families know about. After a multi-year review of our programs, curriculum, and instruction, Gloucester High School has again been awarded accreditation status by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Moving well beyond the simplicity of test scores, this in-depth review recognized how well Gloucester High School’s teachers work together, the quality and depth of the school’s curriculum, how our staff care for and support students’ social emotional well-being, and the school’s leadership. 

The report on GHS is the culmination of a three-year process that included site visits, extensive document reviews, class observations, and interviews with teachers, family members, and school and district leaders. 

Dozens of Commendations

NEASC commended Gloucester High’s work in dozens of areas including: 

• The commitment of the school and district to do what is best for students;
• How well our teachers work together to learn and improve instruction and curriculum;
• The remarkable effort to sustain school growth and professional learning during the pandemic years;
• The schoolwide focus on the social and emotional well-being of all students and teachers, including the intentional use of social emotional wellness strategies by teachers; 
• The trusting relationships between the students and their homeroom teachers that positively impact the transition into ninth grade;
• The schoolwide commitment to improving equity and inclusion including professional learning, day-to-day implementation of strategies, and eliminating barriers to learning; 
• How well the principal serves as the primary educational leader in the school; and
• How students have multiple options to demonstrate their learning through a wide variety of classes, assignments and assessments. 

To see the full list of commendations, and to learn more about GHS’s Accreditation Status, please visit the Accreditation Section of Gloucester High School’s new website. 

Here is a link to an infographic about GHS being awarded continued accreditation.

The ongoing accreditation of GHS is a significant achievement that warrants recognition across our community. We wish to acknowledge and thank the entire Gloucester High School staff. Their effort and expertise ensures that every day matters for our students.

Portuguese Letter to Families – GHS accreditation.pdf 

Spanish Letter to Families – GHS accreditation.pdf 

Sincerely,

Ben Lummis                                     James Cook

Superintendent                                  Principal

Gloucester Public Schools                Gloucester High School

Here’s a link to my One Bite App Review

Blustery…

Raffle Prizes for tonights fundraiser for Scottie Mac include the following:
Stones Pub & Eatery
George’s Restaurant and Bar
Yella On the Water
Tuners Seafood
Maria’s Pizza
Charlies Place
Magnolia Cafe
The Franklin Cape Ann
The Causeway
Cafe Bischo
Jalapeno’s Authentic Mexican Food
Zeke’s Place
Magnolia 525 Tavern
Cape Ann Lanes
Melissa Cox Photography
Celia’s Flower Shop
Meat and Sweet
Tonno Gloucester
Italian Gift Basket
Gift Basket from Salon 127
Towel from Donna Ardizonni
Treetop Yoga
Achieve Perform Wellness
Down River Paper
BlueMarlin
Elite Nails
W
Topside Bistro
Pellana Steak House
Fox Creek Tavern
Bradford Tavern
The Farm Bar and Grill
Passports
Machaca
Pat Dalpiaz photo
Shore Nutrition
Mom’s Kitchen
One Ocean One Love
Elite Nails
Double Down/Frank McCormick
Nina Testaverde Gift Basket
Cape Ann Chamber Gift Card
Unwind Salon
Glennn Hale Photograpny
Goodwin Party Shop
Boo-Bird
Cala’s
Circle Consulting
Minglewood
Happy Humpback
Sista Felicia Cookbook
Tracy O’Neill Fitnss
Piegon Cove Ferments
Angle Wings Wellness
Kanaka Poke
WolfHill

The list continues to grow! Thank you all for your generous donations and support for out favorite DJ! I LOVE GLOUCESTER!

Pizza and loaded tots available plus beer and wine

Place Your Preorders For Pick Up On Saturday On The Website www.holycowicecreamcafe.com

Spend the summer on the water as a deckhand on Adventure.

We are looking for several people 18+ to join our 122-foot schooner, sailing almost every day from the pier at Maritime Gloucester. Sailing experience is a plus but not required, sail training is part of what we do. These are live-aboard positions so room and board are part of the package along with good pay and a chance to be part of the awesome crew, sailing and maintaining our National Historic Landmark. More details are available here. Send a résumé and cover letter to Stuart Siegel, Executive Director, stuart@schooner-adventure.org.

Sharing Instagram info updating Maritime Gloucester Museum hours:

ALL ARE WELCOME to Join us Friday 1/20 @ 7pm for BINGO! All proceeds will help fund Scottie Mac’s recovery. @amvetspost32

@goodmorninggloucester #gloucesterma #capeannma #capeann #helpscottiemac #bettertogether #veteran #bingo

Sharing information from our friend Bill Wrinn:

If you see this guy, get him a lobster roll! He needs one bad!

We have a famous gentleman cartoonist coming to town this weekend and he needs your help. You’d think with all his success, Keith Knight would have it all. But this North Shore native now lives in a North Carolina seafood desert and he is starving for a real lobster roll. Like REALLY starving.

It’s gotten so bad down there, he’s forced to chase the lone lobster food truck from town to town just for an overpriced knockoff. 

Why is he here? On Monday at 2 p.m., the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation will host Keith in honor of Martin Luther King Day. (Free, but lobster roll donations accepted)

Keith is many things to many people: artist, rapper, social activist, tv producer, husband, and father. He is also one of the funniest and most highly regarded cartoonists in America. For almost three decades, this multi-award-winning artist has brought the funny back to the funny pages with a uniquely personal style that’s a cross between Calvin & Hobbs, MAD, and underground comix. His art has appeared in the Washington Post, Daily KOS, San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Herald, Ebony, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. Weekly, MAD Magazine, and the New Yorker. 

Keith’s autobiographical strip, “the K Chronicles,” launched in early 1990 and has won the Harvey Kurtzman Award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip. “The K Chronicles” has also won the Glyph Awards Best Comic Strip multiple times. He has brought his comic strip slideshow presentation – the same one he will be giving Monday at the Gloucester Meetinghouse – on America’s racial illiteracy worldwide, prompting the NAACP to recognize him as a 2015 History Maker. 

Keith has also won a Belle Foundation grant, earned a Comic-Con Inkpot Award for Career Achievement (one year before director Stephen Spielberg got his!), presented at the U.S. Library of Congress, and performed hip-hop naked at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Keith’s work was also the subject of a recent exhibition at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum. 

He is also the co-creator of the television show “Woke” that recently completed its second season on HULU. The show stars Lamorne Morris as “Keef” and is based on Keith’s life and work.

Keith is a 1990 graduate of Salem State University and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the school in 2022.  His presentations are infused with urgency, humor, satire, politics, and race. Designed to provoke constructive, civil dialogue amongst people of all colors and orientations, the presentation has been a hit at university campuses and community organizations around the U.S. and in Europe. (For more on Keith and his work, visit www.keithknightart.com) 

If you’re skeptical, ask Bev Low. She’ll vouch for him. 

Hope to see you there and don’t forget his lobster roll!

To Donate-

Link to donate- https://www.venmo.com/u/Better_TogetherCA

Also- Currently the family has set up an account at Cape Ann Savings Bank check’s payable to Scottie’s Aunt’s Name “Theresa Bunker” with Scott MacDonald in the memo line.
Cape Ann Savings Bank 109 Main Street Gloucester MA.

We are hoping to have Alison come on the GloucesterCast this morning live from Jamaica

The renovation project of the Beeman Memorial Playground seems to be nearing completion. We visited just as the final bell rang one afternoon last week and I can attest to the shiny new equipment and soft groundcover. This was mostly federally funded and the new “up-do” is looking great for our children!