Allow us to show you a glimpse of a place where the mind roams free, bringing with it the joy and exhilaration of discovery. You shall see the process of the building of our Halloween games, from the humble beginnings of crazy, hilarious, or downright impossible ideas to the point of fruitition. First was rousting [...]

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Barbara McFall, Betsye Sargent
Founders and heads of The Phoenix School

“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. [...]

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Phoenix kids care, too.
EarlyAct decides to donate $1,000 to help the Salem Public 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 [...]

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100% of the 3rd through 6th grade students at The Phoenix School in Salem qualified to participate in the Center for Talented Youth Talent Search 2007, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth :

Jonah Levin
Leo Santoro
Zachary Barshevsky
Matt and Daniel Tremblay
Eric McCathern
Olivia Hanna
Andrew Fusco
Jeffrey Childs
Matt Wysocki
Sam Carlberg

The purpose of the Talent Search is [...]

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The Phoenix School Receives $2,500 Best Buy Teach Award to Enhance Technology in School Curricula
Best Buy Teach Award Program Gives $4 Million to Schools Nationwide for Integrating Interactive Technology into the Curricula
The Phoenix School announced today that Best Buy has awarded a $2,500 Teach Award to the school for integrating interactive technology into the [...]

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