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Christopher Rivas brought his interactive storytelling workshops to students at Lawrence High School recently. He spent the day on campus to discuss empowerment and other themes of his book “Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America.” 

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Lawrence Public Schools participated in the annual Read for the Record event in more than 17 pre-K and kindergarten classrooms around the district on Thursday.

Administrators, staff and local elected officials read "Piper Chen Sings" by Phillipa Soo and Maris Pasquale Doran to very enthusiastic listeners. Thank you to all our readers for taking the time to visit and share with our students!

Pictured here is a class at the Frost School with reader Jillian Davey.

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Hennessey School families and staff enjoyed sharing their cultures and traditional dress during their Hispanic Heritage Night event this year. 

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Lawrence High School now has nine new Peer Mediators who traveled to Newburyport District Court this week, joining other student leaders from the region to take their mediator oath. They also had the opportunity to meet with local judicial court officials.

Celebrations at the Rollins School this morning as the school had a pep rally to kick off the Unified Games and recognize their accomplishment of becoming the first Pre-School in Massachusetts to be recognized as a Banner School with the Special Olympics. Superintendent Carrero took part in the torch ceremony and received the official award on behalf of the District. Congratulations to Principal Maura Bradley-Gnanou, the entire staff and students for working together so that everyone is included. We choose to include!

Parthum Elementary families celebrated the many different cultures that are represented at the school. They brought their favorite foods and clothing to Culture Night to share with everyone and enjoyed music and special dance presentations.

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During a special event during Hispanic Heritage month, celebrated Latin singer and Lawrence native, Domenic Marte, returned to Lawrence High School to receive a recognition from the Mayor, Superintendent and LHS Students. Mr. Marte performed two of his hit songs to an appreciative audience.

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Our Lancer Fall Sports teams are playing hard and our Lancer Student Photographers are out there capturing the action. Check the schedule and come out to the next home games. 
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Abbott Lawrence Academy hosted community groups at a recent Hispanic Heritage event. Lots of great energy as people enjoyed presentations and dances. 

Special Olympics Massachusetts has announced that Lawrence Public Schools’ Rollins Early Childhood Center, a preK-K school with Special Olympics Unified Champion School programming, is receiving National Banner recognition for its efforts to provide inclusive sports and activities for students with and without intellectual disabilities!

The Rollins is the first Massachusetts preschool ever to be named a National Banner School, and one of only 19 schools in the state and 202 nationally to receive the honor for the 2023-24 school year.

The Rollins earned this distinguished status by meeting 10 national standards of excellence in the areas of inclusion, advocacy, and respect, developed by a national panel of leaders from Special Olympics and the education community. The primary activities within these standards include Special Olympics Unified Sports, where students with and without disabilities train and compete as teammates. In LPS hundreds of student-athletes from across the district participate every year, culminating each spring with the LPS Unified Games Day at Veterans Memorial Stadium and South Lawrence East.

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