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Superintendent Weekly Update #13

Posted Date: 11/28/25 (10:40 AM)
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Superintendent's Update

Weekly Update #13 November 28, 2025

Diverse students

Leveling Up Culturally Responsive and Engaging Pedagogy "With a Little Help from our Friends"

District Intended Outcome: That we maintain the high performance of students meeting and exceeding district standards/expectations, increase performance of students performing below district standards/expectations, and reduce the predictable performance gap between groups of students performing at or above standards/expectations and groups of students performing below standards/expectations.

Nor'Easters Win an Amazing Thanksgiving Match Against Wethersfield!


The game was tied 7-7 with two seconds to go.
Click below to see our cheerleaders doing a good luck cheer during the final play of the game. The second link shows the last play of the game (you need to fast forward to the end). These are both "must sees". After this unbelievable 13-7 win, we are now in the playoffs with a home game Tuesday evening at Alumni Field.





Our Educators and Students are Doing Amazing Things!

John Wallace Renovation Updates
The renovations at John Wallace continue to move along in the right direction! Staff were able to attend a walk-through last week to see the progress. Board Chair Amy Perrotti and I were so excited to see how happy the teachers were with the reno to date. We are on track for students to be back in one newly finished wing after the Christmas break!
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JW room
JW room
HOSA Guest Speaker
On Thursday, our HOSA Future Health Professionals students at NHS had a guest speaker at our November meeting. Steve Walling, Director and Clinical Coordinator of the School of Cardiovascular Technology at Saint Francis Hospital, came to speak to the students about careers in Echocardiography. He runs the Echocardiography school and is also a practicing echocardiographer. Saint Francis is one of the top echocardiography schools in the nation, where students come from all over the country to learn. He showed incredible videos and graphics of the heart and conditions such as mitral valve prolapse and septal defects. Hopefully, some of our students may now consider a career in Echocardiography that they had never know about before. 
HOSA Guest Speaker
HOSA Guest Speaker
Mindfulness Lesson
Mrs. Inzero engaged students in a valuable lesson on mindfulness in the Mental Health Seminar this week. Students learned how to identify where in the body they were feeling tension, the importance of their breath,
self-compassion meditations, yoga practices and more. Students were grateful for this opportunity as they learned several meaningful coping skills to help manage their feelings, stress or anxiety.
DECA's Trip to Washington, D.C.
Newington DECA participated in the national Ultimate Power trip. During our trip to Washington, D.C. we ventured to the Smithsonian, Spy Museum, Pentagon, and an escape room. All chapter members participated in the practice competition with Monica Kowalczyk being recognized as for competitive excellence. Students attended various different labs including college success, networking & communication, chapter quality improvement, and much more! After our long day at the conference we headed to a DC Night Tour where we went to various monuments, including the White House, Capital, Washington Monument, and the MLK Jr. Memorial. Our closing session keynote speaker was motivational speaker and comedian, Josh Sundqueist who quoted “One more thing, One more time,” which means to adapt and overcome the odds. This was a great conference with lots of memories.
Superintendent's Outstanding Student of the Month
On Monday, November 24th, seven students were honored as Outstanding Students of the Month.
Back row, from left to right: Newington High School - Vinh Ky, Anna Reynolds - James Paula Santos, John Wallace - Anaya Campbell, Martin Kellogg - Nico Pizzoferrato
Front row, from left to right: Elizabeth Green - Nariah Holder, John Paterson - Everly Piombino, Ruth Chaffee - Ameliah Bower
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Everyday Hero 2025-26

Linked here is the Everyday Hero nomination form for this school year.

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions

Please see the flyer below for the Rotary Club of Newington's Breakfast with Santa. It will take place on Saturday Dec. 6th from 7:30 am - 11:00 am. 
Rotary Breakfast with Santa
Equity

Equity

Celebrations and Condolences

Celebrations:
Emily Shepherd, first grade teacher at John Paterson, is an aunt for the first time! Her niece, Ellie, was born on November 11th.

Condolences:
Kathi Rossi, third grade teacher at Ruth Chaffee, lost her mother. This is also Matt. Rossi's (JW), mother-in-law.

Johanna Gagnon, second grade teacher at Ruth Chaffee, lost her grandmother.

Mike Cunha, account clerk in the Finance Department, lost his mother on November 22.

Jim Marciano, principal at Ruth Chaffee, lost his wife's grandmother on November 23.
Be Well and please enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Maureen