Spotlight Archive

Welcome Loren Andreotta   Loren Andreotta, Executive Assistant to OTM's Natasha Durrant and Scott Nicol   Please welcome Loren Andreotta to the Hartford Public Schools.  She will serve as an executive assistant to Natasha Durrant and Scott Nicol out of the Office of Talent Management.   Loren comes to us with extensive experience spending eight […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014   Hip-Hop For The Homeless: Hartford Rapper Organizes Series Of Benefit Concerts   This series of important, and really fun events is supported by one of our Teacher of the Year Finalists from 2013, Joseph Battaglia.  Hartford Public Schools students also contrbute their time and effort to the succes of […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014   WinterFest Opening!!!   Please join Mayor Segarra and Governor Malloy for the opening night celebration of our fifth Annual Winterfest Hartford festival on Friday, November 28th at 4:30pm in Bushnell Park.   Winterfest Hartford is the Capital City's winter festival that features an outdoor skating rink at Bushnell Park […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014 City Offices Closed Friday After Thanksgiving Click here for announcement from the City of Hartford.  

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014   Achieve Hartford! Announces the Winners of their Community Spelling Bee!   Reprinted from:   Vol. 6, Issue No. 48                         November 13,  2014   Showcasing Hartford Students … and their Strong Community Supporters Spelling Bee Brings the Community Together […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014   Renzulli Academy Social Studies Teacher/Acting Library Media Specialist Quoted in School Library Journal Congratulations to Melissa Thom, Renzulli Academy social studies teacher and acting library media specialist (student in the LMS ARC program), for being quoted in School Library Journal this month in the feature article about using Skype! […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     November 2014   Breakthrough Magnet School South Selected by Teach for America to Be Recognized as School To Learn From It is with pride that we announce that Breakthrough Magnet School South has been selected by Teach for America to be recognized as a School To Learn From, as an exemplar in […]

SPOTLIGHT on EXCELLENCE     December 2014 Read “School Library Media Matters” For a printable copy of the newsletter, click here.   School library programs empower learners to achieve through creative inquiry, lifelong reading, purposeful research, and ethical use of information.