BETHEL – More than 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade will walk through the doors of SAD 44’s five schools today. It was their first day back after summer vacation.
It was also the first day for 14 instructors.
New faces at Telstar Regional High School include French teacher Terrie Anne Bennett, who last year managed Black Mountain of Maine ski area in Rumford; biology instructor Sarah Savage; and math teacher Mark Antell.
Daniel Manson and David Jenkins are new English instructors at the secondary school in Bethel.
Additionally, Kevin O’Reilly, who resigned this year as SAD 21’s guidance counselor in Dixfield, is now doing the same job at SAD 44. Another SAD 21 stalwart, Jack McCarthy, resigned to become SAD 44’s special education director. Both O’Reilly and McCarthy live in Bethel.
Other new faces for students at Crescent Park School are Martha Siegel, half-time Title I teacher, and Meg Steven, half-time Title I education technician. New at Andover Elementary School is half-time Title I instructor Jennifer Rawlings.
Others include Amy Verrill as a Title I educational technician literacy instructor; fifth-grade teacher Gabrielle Rafford; sixth-grade teacher Mary J. Learned; and eighth-grade science teacher David Pope.
But Telstar Middle School garnered the biggest news, being awarded a three-year $150,000 Comprehensive School Reform grant last month, Superintendent David Murphy said Tuesday afternoon.
The school is to receive $50,000 annually. The money, Murphy said, would enable the school to improve its literacy and math curriculum, boost professional development, and address other needs.
Today’s projected enrollments are:
• Telstar High School: 311
• Telstar Middle School: 272
• Crescent Park Elementary School: 305
• Woodstock Elementary School: 87
• Andover Elementary School: 56
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