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Early to bed
Art class SIXTH-GRADER NICO Gori-Montanelli in May paints a panel that was to be installed on the piano that Mary Hogan Elementary School students decorated for the Town Hall Theater’s birthday bash this summer.
Independent file photo/Trent Campbell
New administrators arrive in area schools … can take effort at summer’s end By MELISSA RAYWORTH spontaneity of summer and the long, light eve(AP) — Parents, you can already picture those nings, ditching routines and enjoying late nights first mornings of the school with the kids. Or maybe we reyear: the challenge of dragging ally do try to get them to bed cranky kids out of their beds at early, but Little League basedawn after two months of melball games run late and vacaFor young kids, the low summer mornings. tions to other time zones make Each year, many of us swear it impossible. most effective routine we’ll do it differently. We will Then we try to get our kids includes a warm listen to the experts. We will up early for the first day of bath and reading a adjust our children’s bedtimes school and their bodies natufavorite book. Skip back to a school-year schedrally rebel. It’s never easy television, which has ule as soon as August arrives. to be “waking up at the time a stimulating effect. We will work with biology, you’re biologically ready to be not against it, by dimming the asleep,” says Dr. Peter Franlights and drawing the curtains zen, child sleep expert and in the evenings. We will reassistant professor of psychiamember the power of a good try at the University of Pittsbedtime routine. burgh’s Sleep Medicine Institute. It does sound wonderful. Lack of sleep can affect kids’ ability to learn, to But each year, many families embrace the (See Bedtime, Page 9)
By JOHN FLOWERS AND ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — Each new school year brings a crop of new faces — some are the youngest children who are just starting out in school, some are children who have moved into a school district over the summer, and some are new teachers and administrators who staff the schools. While it is a bit early to identify all of the new children and teachers, by early August area schools have lined up several new administrators for the 2013-2014 school year. Among those who parents and community members will see leading their schools this fall are a new superintendent of the Addison Central Supervisory Union; a new co-principal at Vergennes Union High School; and new principals or assistant principals at elementary schools in Shoreham, Cornwall, Middlebury and New Haven. In addition, a familiar face will be changing roles at Addison Central School. The most senior of the newcomers is the Addison Central Supervisory Union’s new superintendent, Peter Burrows. He was a 42-year-old principal (See New faces, Page 2)
Inside The grit to succeed is not inherited, but learned..........................4 Mount Abe recognized for innovation in education .....................7 Teachers can use clothes to communicate with kids .................8 Beeman students make choices about their food ..................... 10 Tips for packing safe lunches.......................................................... 11