Stockbridge Community Schools
Lady Panthers Cruise to Fourth Straight Win
The Stockbridge girls’ basketball team had a big week, cruising to three wins and making it four wins in a row for the Lady Panthers. They opened the week by routing Maple Valley 67-33 Wednesday, February 17. The Panthers jumped out to a quick 13-5 lead behind six points by Grace Hall and four by […]
Staff Spotlight: Learning by doing is how Angie Nichols engages her fifth-grade students.
by Amy Haggerty Angie Nichols has been teaching for Stockbridge Community Schools for 21 years. Throughout her career, she has taught many elementary grades and subjects, including elementary music. “Being part of the ‘specials’ staff, teaching music allowed me to see that students needed that time to express themselves and figure out their gifts.” During […]
Boys’ Basketball Off to Rough Start
The Stockbridge basketball team has had a rough start to the 2021 season dropping a pair of games last week. The Panthers struggled offensively in the opener against Chelsea falling to the Bulldogs 46-27 Monday, February 8. Stockbridge scored just four points in the first quarter and 11 total for the first half as they […]
Lady Panthers Roll by Pinckney for First Win
The Stockbridge girls’ basketball team finally opened its season last week and split a pair of games, including a big win over Pinckney in the home opener Saturday. February 13. The Panthers started slow against the Pirates Saturday falling behind 15-12 after one quarter, but rallied in the second. Kaylee Dalton scored five second quarter […]
From the Superintendents Desk
by Bruce Brown Having a few hundred people over for an afternoon meal would make most of us panic, but not the people who work in the kitchens of Stockbridge Schools. They serve hundreds and hundreds of meals every day of the school year, Covid or not. Stockbridge has three kitchens and eight cafeteria workers. […]
A treat for their feet
Stockbridge Community School’s Food & Nutrition Services Director, Stephanie White, accepting a load of 169 packs of Bombas socks from Outreach volunteer Jo Mayer. The socks were granted to Outreach to help those in need and were distributed today at the school’s weekly food distribution. Each package contained four pairs of various sizes.
GAME ON: High School Sports Released to Begin Play Next Week
After being blocked from competition since November, winter sports teams were finally given the go ahead to participate in full contact practices and competitions beginning next week after Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services held a press conference Thursday afternoon. Teams had been sidelined from contact practices since December […]
Student of the Month: 7th grader Madison Rusnock shares the joy of reading
by Cindy Lance Seventh grade student Madison Rusnock is an avid reader who loves books. “Madison gets so much joy from reading and understands deeply how it informs her own writing and makes people think about the universal themes in our society,” said teacher Pam Gower. In order to help her peers get all of […]
From the Superintendent’s Desk
Since our first school was built on Wood Street, between Spring and Rice in 1837, Stockbridge has employed 26 superintendents. Some were historical footnotes and others were icons. The longest serving Stockbridge Superintendent was Jesse Batchelor, who guided the district from 1943 to 1970. Richard Howlett holds the record for being superintendent on three separate […]
Staff Spotlight: Susan Lockhart, math and PE teacher, channels her passion for fitness to benefit students academically
by Amy Haggerty Susan Lockhart believes that physical exercise is important, even essential, for mental and psychological well-being. As a Stockbridge physical education and math teacher, she sets an excellent example for her students. She teaches them that they have the power to change negative thoughts and feelings into positive, rational, motivating thoughts, which helps […]