Ten Elementary School News Today

Hollidaysburg Area School District acting superintendent Darren McLaurin will resign from the position Friday, less than five months after assuming the role. McLaurin’s resignation was accepted during a Wednesday night Hollidaysburg Area School Board meeting. Current interim special education director Rodney Green will fill the vacant post until incoming superintendent Curtis Whitesel arrives in April. […]

CRESSON — A Hollidaysburg Area School District elementary principal will succeed Bill Marshall as Penn Cambria’s superintendent upon Marshall’s July 1 retirement. During a special meeting Monday night, the Penn Cambria School Board of Directors unanimously appointed Jamie Hartline as the district’s director of pupil services, a temporary position that will allow Hartline to work […]

When growing up in Duncansville, Grace Jester was known as the neighborhood “songbird.” Today, the 20-year-old lives in Nashville, Tenn., and has released her first music single, a song she composed called “Wrap Me in Your Arms.” Grace’s neighbor and former elementary music teacher Martha Miller said, “She was this little songbird. She didn’t sing […]

amollenauer@altoonamirror.com Courtesy photo Second-grader Audreigh Holden-Lager, 8, participates in a hands-on STEM activity at Spring Cove Elementary School. Robotic bugs are creating a buzz in teaching young children STEM skills. Bee-Bots, small robots that teach children coding and computational thinking, are helping younger students practice addition and subtraction and other critical skills. Students have to plan out moves — forward, backward, left and right — required to move the Be...