Read Across America is a national event honoring the birthday of Dr. Seuss and celebrating the importance of reading. PSEA members help to make sure Read Across America is celebrated across our Commonwealth

Occasionally there is a story about an individual in which life appears to come full circle. The kind of story where a person overcomes childhood poverty, earns a college education, and then returns to her birthplace to help in a time of need. Sandrine Macena Longenecker, a young woman adopted from Haiti and raised in Lebanon County, has that kind of story. In 1990 Sandrine Macena was six years old, the youngest of 10 siblings living in desperate poverty in Haiti. Her father had died and her mother could not care for her.

In this day and age of high-stakes testing, when educators are less and less able to follow a teachable moment down whichever road it leads, it is the rare teacher who finds the luxury of time for a very special project. This fall, however, one of those special moments occurred, and thanks to Deborah Culbertson, a third-grade teacher at the South Hamilton Elementary School in Chambersburg, her students gained a new understanding of our history – both past and present.

For the past two years, Southern Region has remembered activated military personnel by sending them greeting cards on various holidays such as Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Christmas.

Over 200 students from Riverside School District in Beaver County recently performed at PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.