Category: Palisades School District

District Administration mag­a­zine announced Palisades School District as one of the 45 dis­tricts nation­wide named as a District of Distinction.

“Districts of Distinction was estab­lished by District Administration to hon­or school dis­tricts that are lead­ing the way with new ideas that solve chal­lenges. Honorees are select­ed based on the … Read more...

Palisades High School is among only 373 schools in North America (U.S. and Canada) hon­ored by the College Board with place­ment on its 9th Annual AP® District Honor Roll.  To be includ­ed on the 9th Annual Honor Roll, Palisades had to increase the num­ber of stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing in Advanced … Read more...

SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED AND ATTENDED OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TOWN HALL MEETING:

Held on Tuesday, November 13th, we had a num­ber of pro­fes­sion­als from the men­tal health and fam­i­ly health indus­try, as well as law enforce­ment, includ­ing Matt Weintraub, District Attorney for Bucks County and local … Read more...

Widener University, one of the nation’s pre­mier uni­ver­si­ties for civic engage­ment and applied lead­er­ship, in part­ner­ship with WCAU-TV NBC10, rec­og­nized Paige Kukowski as a win­ner of the Widener University High School Leadership Awards. To read the full press release, please click on the fol­low­ing link.

One of the key­stones … Read more...

Over the next decade, sev­en in 10 new jobs in Pennsylvania will require work­ers to use a com­put­er and an esti­mat­ed 300,000 STEM jobs will be avail­able in the com­mon­wealth by 2026. To meet this pro­ject­ed demand, Governor Tom Wolf launched PAsmart, a new ini­tia­tive to invest in the com­mon­wealth’s … Read more...

At Springfield Elementary School in Palisades School District, three 2nd grade stu­dents and their fam­i­lies have been sell­ing home­made lemon­ade through­out this school year to raise mon­ey for local char­i­ties.  Gabrielle Holmes, Willa Mansfeld and Payson Godoy have been set­ting up their lemon­ade stand each month at movie nights which … Read more...

Last school year, Palisades Middle School was des­ig­nat­ed as a Don Eichhorn School to Watch.  PALMS joins an elite group of 41 schools in the Commonwealth of PA and 480 schools across the nation to receive such a pres­ti­gious hon­or. The Schools to Watch pro­gram, spon­sored by the National Forum … Read more...

REGISTER NOW!  Sign up now for the 5K Family Walk/Run being held on Saturday, May 18th at PHS!  Don’t miss this fam­i­ly fun event!  Registration begins at 7:30AM and the race begins at 9AM.  Go to http://www.palisadescommunityfoundation.org/

Vendors or schools/community orga­ni­za­tions that are inter­est­ed in … 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...

Over the past twen­ty years, Team 103 has achieved a num­ber of awards and received a myr­i­ad of recog­ni­tions.  The team is a proud recip­i­ent of the Chairman’s Award in 2004, giv­en by Mr. Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST.  It is the high­est hon­or giv­en to a team … Read more...

At the end of August, our teach­ers, staff and admin­is­tra­tors start­ed their school year with our Morning of Service.  This is the 3rd year that we have opened our school year in this very impor­tant and engag­ing way!  About 300 employ­ees par­tic­i­pat­ed in our Day of Service where 20 orga­ni­za­tions … Read more...

Springfield Elementary School was rec­og­nized at the State Level for “high fideli­ty imple­men­ta­tion of the Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Program (PBIS).”  This pro­gram, in its sec­ond year of imple­men­ta­tion at Springfield Elementary high­lights pro­motes pos­i­tive behav­ior by rec­og­niz­ing stu­dents who are respect­ful, respon­si­ble and kind.  In order … Read more...

SPECIAL THANKS TO PALISADES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION!

Our incom­ing kinder­garten stu­dents (Class of 2032) received FREE books at the kinder­garten ori­en­ta­tion vis­it in ear­ly June, thanks to a gen­er­ous dona­tion of $1,000 from the Palisades Community Foundation!  Bags for the books to be dis­trib­uted in were gra­cious­ly print­ed and donat­ed … Read more...

TINICUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CELEBRATES THE BIG 6–0!
Tinicum Elementary stu­dents and staff took a walk back in time to cel­e­brate 60 years of edu­ca­tion­al suc­cess at this school loca­tion.  Having opened in September of 1958, the school has seen many changes in the build­ing and in the way that cur­ricu­lum … Read more...