Women Empowered – Leading The Phoenix School
The Salem Gazette recently ran a series focusing on local business leaders. The Phoenix School was featured in the article below.
“Don’t do it,” said a marketing team from Suffolk U. after evaluating the potential for opening a new school in Salem in 1981, but Barbara McFall and Betsye Sargent paid no attention and went ahead anyway. You may remember 1981 was a time much like today. Budget deficits, staff lay-offs, programs cuts were all having a serious impact on the Salem Public Schools. As employees of the Salem Public Schools, we were not willing to see the substance of the gifted and talented and magnet school programs decimated, so we left the system and founded The Phoenix Enrichment Center, now The Phoenix School. Truly rising from the ashes of an economic downturn, The Phoenix School continues to offer a vibrant, innovative educational opportunity in downtown Salem. Read the rest of the article…
Phoenix Students Reach Out to Help Salem Schools
On Friday 26 students in grades PK-7th at The Phoenix School in Salem met to discuss the financial problems in the Salem Public Schools. Finding it hard to imagine losing a teacher or changing teachers in the middle of the year, they empathized with their peers. The message was clear, We need to help too.
A Phoenix Alum Speaks
From The Phoenix to Phillips Academy to Brown University, Roxanne Knapp reflects on how her experiences at The Phoenix in Kindergarten through 8th grade influenced her and helped shape her experiences and goals for the future.