Together We Build Strong Minds
Not all student respond well, or the same to every type of intervention service. Therefore, in response to the growing need for intensive, researched based reading and spelling intervention, the Bucks IU’s Special Education Department in partnership with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) services worked together to begin offering … Read more...
Led by Shannon Hamilton, Autistic Support Teacher at the Bucks IU at Samuel Everitt, the Stockings for Soldiers campaign is entering its 6th year! This amazing program serves so many good purposes. As the name denotes, it benefits members of our military stationed overseas by sending them necessities and … Read more...
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit has received a $10,000 grant that will be used by IU specialists to help preschool and kindergarten children at various schools and other educational facilities refine
their fine motor skills.
The grant was awarded by the nonprofit Foundations Community Partnership, a philanthropic grant-making foundation supporting … Read more...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf visited the Doylestown area on March 19, 2021 to tour the vaccine clinic hosted by the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU). The vaccine clinic was part of a Commonwealth-wide initiative to vaccinate school employees and contractors. The Governor was greeted by Bucks IU Executive … Read more...
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) Education Foundation is pleased to announce that they have been named the recipient of a $5,000 grant from the PPL (Pennsylvania Power and Light) Foundation. The PPL Foundation awards annual grants through a competitive application and review process in support of organizations … Read more...
The gruesome images will be tough to erase for the hundreds of kids who poured out of Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown on Thursday.
Three wrecked cars right in front of their Bucks County school. The anguished screams of “Somebody please help!” The grisly sight of wounded classmates … Read more...
The Bucks IU Mobile FAB LAB has figured out how to make virtual learning fun and FABulous! The program developed and offered two weeks of summer camp and has over 150 campers participating.
Campers all received their own personal CAMP BOX, shipped directly to their home prior to the … Read more...
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is proud to announce a new suite of services for individuals with disabilities over the age of 21. These Adult Programs and Services form a natural extension to the Bucks IU’s existing, high-quality services for children with disabilities from birth through … Read more...
Genius Hour — An organic, student-led initiative that has spread throughout the district into many of the K‑12 classrooms. It is one of the most exciting learning experiences kids are having in school — authentic, self-directed learning about a topic of passion. The role of the teacher becomes that of … Read more...
On Thursday, October 10, 2019, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) welcomed Governor Tom Wolf to Brookwood Elementary School, in Bristol Township, to talk with students using their newly unveiled Bucks IU Mobile Fab Lab. The Fab Lab was funded by the governor’s groundbreaking PAsmart initiative. The governor … Read more...
Megan Jackson has been selected as the Upper Bucks County Technical School’s Student of the Month for January. Megan is a senior at Quakertown Community High School and is enrolled in the Baking & Pastry Arts program at UBCTS. Megan joined the Baking & Pastry Arts program four years … Read more...
Upper Bucks County Technical School in Perkasie hosted a campus tour for an official from Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration, highlighting the value of vocational education.
There’s nowhere else Dylan Augustin would rather be on a rainy Thursday morning than scrunched inside the body of a classic sports car, power tools … Read more...
On April 20, 2018 the Palisades High School Global Pathway invited globally-minded students to travel to NYC to attend a United Nations Conference on Students Seeking Solutions on worldwide water sustainability. This conference connected students (college and high school level) with international experts from around the world. Twenty-six Palisades High … Read more...
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) was proud to host the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) for a roundtable discussion regarding their award to the Bucks IU of a PAsmart Advancing Grant. This grant, for $412,656, is for the creation of a Mobile Fab (Fabrication) … Read more...
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU), in-line with our ongoing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education efforts, was proud to again coordinate and host the Bucks County regional STEM Design Challenge. Two sell-out crowds, of sixty-five teams each, competed on two separate days with elementary students … Read more...
