Brunswick Buzz

Episode 12: Brunswick Community Education Foundation

🎙️ This time on the Brunswick Buzz, Phil speaks to Brunswick Community Education Foundation members. The Brunswick Community Education Foundation is an independent non-profit organization committed to supporting students in Brunswick’s public schools. So if you are passionate about shaping the future of education in the Brunswick School Department? Look no further and learn how the Brunswick School Department benefits from its partnership with the Brunswick Community Education Foundation. 📚🌟

Episode 11: Teens to Trails

This time on the Brunswick Buzz, Phil speaks to Teens to Trails staff - Alicia Heyburn, Executive Director, and Samantha Andrews, Outdoor Program Manager. 🎙️Teens to Trails is an organization Brunswick High School partners with by providing extra-curricular opportunities for students to explore the great outdoors through the eyes of passionate young adventurers! Join Phil as he learns more about Teen to Trails, so whether you're an experienced hiker or new to the trail, there's something here for everyone. 🌲🏞️

Episode 10: Reinventing, Remote, Education, Venture (RREV)

On the Brunswick Buzz, we speak with Heather Blanchard, Principal, and Tracy Kinney, Teacher from Harriet Beecher Stowe School, about the Reinventing, Remote, Education, Venture (RREV) grant they received from the Maine Department of Education.

Episode 9: Ben Martens, Executive Director of the Maine Coast Fisherman Association

This time on the Brunswick Buzz, Phil talks with Ben Martens, Executive Director of the Maine Coast Fisherman Association. Maine Coast Fisherman Association partners with schools to provide fresh, locally sourced fish for school lunches. 

Episode 8: CountMeIn

This time on the Brunswick Buzz, Phil talks with Jess Anderson, Executive Director of CountMeIn. CountMeIn student partners with schools, businesses, families, youth, and state and community organizations are focused on reducing chronic absenteeism by improving student and family school engagement and school attendance, and academic achievement.

Episode 7: Brunswick Area Teen Center

On this month's podcast, Phil talks with Stacy Frizzle-Edgerton, Executive Director of the Brunswick Area Teen Center. The Teen Center provides opportunities for students in the Brunswick School Department and the greater Brunswick community, a place to go outside of school where they can have fun and feel safe. The Teen Center is a central place where young people like our students can meet safely to explore creative outlets, share their talents, participate in intergenerational activities, and develop into well-rounded adults.

Episode 6: Full Plates Full Potential

On this episode of the Brunswick Buzz, Phil speaks with Justin Strasburger, Executive Director of Full Plates Full Potential. Full Plates Full Potential works to identify and break down barriers to food access faced by too many children.

Episode 5: Say Something Anonymous Reporting System

On this month’s podcast, Phil talks with Anathea Chartrand the Associate VP SS-ARS of Account Management & Program Delivery of Sandy Hook Promise, the non-profit that has helped implement the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System ( SS-ARS) in the Brunswick School District. The SS-ARS)m allows students a safe and anonymous way to report issues 24/7/365 when they see a classmate who is at risk of harming themselves or others. Phil and Anathea discuss the background of Sand Hook Promise and the importance of the SS-ARS and answer some questions about how it is implanted in the school district.

Episode 4 (Media Literacy)

On this month’s episode Phil talks with Brunswick School Department’s Technology Integrators; Ashley LaCroix (Kate Furbish Elementary School), Janice Rodriguez (Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School), Michelle Russo (Brunswick Junior High), and Dan Dearing (Brunswick High School) about how they  teach about Media Literacy to students at various grade levels as well as some helpful tips for parents navigating the ever changing digital landscape their student are engage with. 

Episode 3: 2022 School Board Election Candidates

On this episode Phil talks to three candidates running for the Brunswick School Board as well as Brunswick Town Clerk Fran Smith on the upcoming School Board Election.