Dixfield Elementary


Jayne Arsenault – Title I education technician

Margaret Wing – education technician

Gretchen Curtis – Life skills instructor

Tim W. Kelly – Keyboarding teacher for all third- and fourth-grade students for eight weeks (Kelly is the former longtime principal of Dirigo Middle School)

Early Kindergarten – a half-day program for Dixfield Elementary and Canton Elementary schools students

Doublewide portable
T.W. Kelly Dirigo M.S.


Kathy Knight – teacher (former Title I education technician)

Melissa Aylward – Title I education technician

Margaret Emery – Band/chorus teacher

Benjamin Bridges – Half-time social studies teacher

Sarah Adley – Half-time science/math teacher

Singlewide portable (moved from DES) – for new science/math teacher and new social studies teacher

Expanded band/chorus program

New laptop computers for seventh-graders (last year’s seventh-graders will keep their laptops as they move up to the eighth grade)
Dirigo High School


Matthew Brooks – Math and science teacher

Melissa Maynard – Spanish instructor

Carla Landers – Social studies and English teacher

Margaret Morse – Special education teacher (former education technician)

Patricia Holman – Education technician with Special Education

Beth Penley – Education technician with Special Education

Linda Cox – Education technician with Special Education

Barbara Arsenault – Education technician helping speech pathologist

Lori Kersey – School cafeterias

Sonia Blaisdell – School cafeterias

Scott White – Custodian

Randy Hamlin – Custodian

Tennis facility with three lighted courts. Landscaping continues and the Class of 2003 is donating several outdoor benches for the complex.

Extensive turf work, regular watering and mowing of practice and competition athletic fields at adjacent Harlow Park

Benches, pictures/paintings, plants and trees throughout the school building from the Dirigo High School Beautification Committee.

One-year, $10,000 planning grant for the Promising Futures/school initiatives program. A school/community forum is in the works for this fall.

Computer hardware in the library.

Laptops for every classroom teacher.

A second 8 to 10 laptop lab will be accessible for all second-floor classrooms via a portable cart.

New data management program Pinnacle Plus. First phase will enable teachers to do electronic grading, progress reports, document student learning and assessment performances. Second phase will provide parents access to their student’s learning performances, attendance, and electronic communication opportunities with their teachers.

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