ELLWOOD CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Educating all of our children today for their success tomorrow
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Due to the forecasted rain this weekend, Penn Power has rescheduled the planned Ellwood City borough-wide power shutdown. The new date for the shutdown is Sunday, October 26. Again, we will plan to have school as normal on October 27, but we will be prepared for a flexible instruction day if necessary.
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We have been working to prepare our facilities, food services, and technology systems for the Ellwood Borough power outage on October 26. Our goal is to ensure everything is ready so we can resume normal operations on Monday, October 27.
We will have staff on campus this weekend to check all systems and ensure that our buildings are ready for students and staff to return on Monday.
At this time we are still planning for a normal school day on Monday, October 27.If any unexpected issues arise as a result of the outage, we will notify families and staff as soon as possible and will call a Flexible Instructional Day (FID) on Monday, if necessary, for any impacted buildings.
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This year marks the 100th Anniversary of our school, and we are thrilled to share a once-in-a-lifetime moment with our community!
Hidden inside the cornerstone of our auditorium was a time capsule—a true treasure from the past. Thanks to the generosity of LMI, who donated their time and expertise, the capsule will be carefully removed the week of September 22 so we could take a step back in history.
With the help of our amazing staff and students, we’ve thoughtfully chosen new items to include before the capsule is placed back for future generations to discover.
While a formal celebration will take place later this year, we couldn’t wait to let everyone know about this incredible opportunity! A huge thank you to Heidi Feltrop and Dave Gaibis for leading this special initiative, to LMI for their generous donation of work, and to the Historical Society for being such an insightful partner in the process.
Stay tuned for more details about our upcoming anniversary celebration—we can’t wait to celebrate a century of tradition, pride, and community with all of you!
What an incredible day at ECASD! We officially found AND opened the time capsule at Lincoln!
A huge thank you to everyone who made this discovery possible:
Heidi Feltrop and Dave Gaibis for their dedication and persistence,
Lee Michael Industries. Inc. for donating all of their work,
Blood Hound Underground Utility Locators for using their ground-penetrating radar last week to help locate it,
ECTV for capturing the entire process on film, and
The Ellwood City Area Historical Society for their support and partnership in preserving our community’s history!
We’ve seen the contents and are now working to preserve these historical items as we begin planning a special celebration for Lincoln’s 100 years!
Stay tuned for more details. History has officially been uncovered!
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Vision Statement:
Ellwood City Area School District aims to prepare all students for the 21st Century world by providing:
A high-performing school system with appropriate resources for success
A comprehensive technology-based and standards-driven education
A culture that promotes life-long learners and problem-solvers
A climate that promotes social and emotional development
Instruction that assists students to consistently utilize a versatile learning toolbox
College and career readiness
An environment that supports strong personal skills and individuality
A foundation in collaboration and resiliency
A safe, stable and caring learning environment
A listening ear
Staff will be expected to:
Identify and adapt to students ever-changing education needs
Utilize best teaching practices for instruction
Include a wide variety of teaching and evaluation tools
Work collaboratively
Be inclusive of all students and their parents
Support the academic, social and emotional needs of students
Support students’ future endeavors
Students will:
Develop long-term relationships with each other and the community
Become critical and analytical thinkers
Become skilled researchers of information
Develop strong communication skills
Advocate for themselves and others
Be technologically literate
Tolerate and accept differences in others
Become productive citizens
Families and the Community will:
Support, value and prioritize education
Work with teachers to build strong home-school connection
Help to create open communication with the schools
Support the financial needs of the district to provide first-class education