by Joey Phoenix The Phoenix School, whose small numbers provide a rare opportunity for in-person and predominantly exploratory outdoor learning, recently announced that they are moving to their new location at 28 Goodhue Street near Mack Park in Salem.  While teachers, and educational staff nationwide have been debating how to safely educate students this fall during a global pandemic, the

By Joey Phoenix  It’s the question of the year in a year full of endless questions: Do we send students back to school in person? The answer is undeniably complicated, and there’s little precedent for how to effectively deal with this crisis in the midst of an ongoing global pandemic. Many schools are looking to adopt a hybrid model where

This year on April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and organizations around the United States are creating ways to celebrate the earth virtually. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorites here, but you can also follow #EarthDayAtHome on Social Media. Spread Kindness with Alice’s Table – Magnolia Blooms In this live stream, Jeannine O’Neil of Alice’s

Salem’s The Phoenix School has been incorporating tech-inclusive, individualized learning into the fabric of what they’ve been doing since the very beginning. So it’s no wonder that when social distancing guidelines came into effect, they knew exactly what to do. Starting last week, The Phoenix School switched to an online curriculum allowing students to learn virtually from home. This week,

“Hey [Insert whatever your kid calls you here], What are we doing today?” Schools have been closed for weeks and parents and guardians have been left with the task of homeschooling and entertaining their children. At first it might have been novel building blanket forts and watching Frozen 2 for the 11th time, but now you may need to have

When Betsye Sargent and Barbara McFall started The Phoenix School in 1981, they had $800 between them. What they also had was the determination to found a school that would set new standards for education. They aimed to provide opportunities for Salem children that the public school system just didn’t have the funding for, with the focus being on academic

The 2018/2019 year at The Phoenix School is wrapping up and summer is on the horizon. On Friday, May 1, the kids had their annual May Day performance in Old Town Hall, and are readying themselves for the upcoming All School End-of-Year Celebration and Graduation on June 12th at 6:00 pm at the Salem Five Community Room on Essex Street

After much anticipation and hundreds of people asking: “When is the Friendship coming back?”, the beloved Friendship returned to Salem on Monday, April 22 to the cheers and excitement of everyone waiting for her on shore. The Phoenix School students were there to greet her in the less than perfect weather, holding up banners and singing songs about the historic

The Phoenix School’s 6th-8th graders recently got back from the Florida Everglades and have spent the last two weeks going over their research and discussing what they had learned on the journey. Since the Kindergarten through fifth graders had also completed a similar imaginary journey, the two groups were able to share notes and discuss their findings. There was much

The classroom was full of the hustle and bustle of children shuffling quickly through a makeshift security line. “Take off your shoes and your belt and put all of your personal belongings in the bin to go through the scanner,” one fifth grade student said to a third grader in line. “Don’t forget to empty out all of your pockets,”