SALEM – Mt. Abram High School wasn’t the only school in the area to score big when it came to grants through the Great Maine Schools Project and funded by Microsoft magnet Bill Gates.

Livermore Falls High School was awarded a one-time planning grant of $10,000 to achieve its vision of implementing vertical teaming, common planning time for teachers and flexible work schedules to enhance opportunities for professional development.

Three schools in neighboring Oxford County also chalked up funding, including:

• Sacopee Valley in Hiram won up to $400,000 over the next five years and plans to introduce a core phase of learning for what is traditionally known as grades 9/10 with more personalized and independent learning during the last two years of high school. Sacopee also intends to continue being a community school, with the community using the school as a resource, and vice versa.

• Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris will be one of six schools with an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, each getting a piece of more than $700,000 over the next five years for big high schools learning to be small.

• Dirigo High School in Dixfield will get a one-time planning grant of $10,000 to implement an expansive mentoring and job shadowing program at the school

Meanwhile, Carrabec High School in nearby North Anson has picked up $400,000 over the next five years. They hope to offer students four “academies” as they move through the four years of high school with each academy having a stated theme, guiding principal and a technology focus.


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