Superintendent's Report

February 21-25 was Public Schools week. I just want to say THANK YOU to the dedicated administrators, teachers and staff keeping our students safe, learning, and growing this year. I am proud of our schools and all of their efforts that help your children learn and grow.

The Indiana Kiwanis Club and Ben Franklin Elementary School in Indiana have announced a partnership that supports the ongoing development an outdoor learning space at the school.

Through the club’s effort to give back to the community, the Kiwanis Club donated over $44,000 to the project, which was originally started by first grade teacher Sean Moran.

SkillsUSA is a nonprofit national education association that partners with students, teachers and industry to ensure America has a skilled workforce. In addition to Leadership Conferences and Workshops, Skills USA supports a scaffold of District, State and National Technical Skill Competitions.

On February 21, 2022 the District 8 competition was held. Savannah Clark placed 1st in Medical Terminology and Amanda Skursky placed 1st in Nail Care, both will continue on to the State Competition in Hershey, Pa on April 6-7, 2022. Colin Knickle (Digital Cinema Production), Luke Sell (Digital Cinema Production), and Dylan Shaffer (Sheet Metal)

will also be competing at the State Competition due to a bye in their competition at the District Level.

Our students represented us well and we are proud of their accomplishments!

Mr. Dave Sheeran and Mrs. Elizabeth Woods took IASD fourth graders on a two tiered competition: (1) Online virtual (qualifier) Finalist announced 1/20/22 (2)Hershey face-to face 2/8/22.

This enrichment opportunity allowed our students to work collaboratively on teams to construct inventions which incorporated STEM, Collaborative Learning, and Problem Solving while being fully aligned with our CKLA Language Arts Curriculum : Eureka - “Inventions and Inventors History of Inventions” IASD was the only district in the STATE that had all their projects selected to present in Hershey.

1,000 projects were entered and only 65 were invited to Hershey for the finals. We finished second in the entire Commonwealth!! Congrats to the students and staff for making this event possible.

Effective February 25, 2022, CDC is exercising its enforcement discretion to not require that people wear masks on buses or vans operated by public or private school systems, including early care and education/child care programs. CDC is making this change to align with updated guidance that no longer recommends universal indoor mask wearing in K-12 schools and early education settings in areas with a low or medium COVID-19 Community Level. School systems at their discretion may choose to require that people wear masks on buses or vans.

As such the Indiana Area School District will fall in alignment with the CDC recommendation and masks are no longer required on school transportation.

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Website: www.iasd.cc
Location: 501 East Pike Road, Indiana, PA, USA
Phone: (724) 463-8713
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