Superintendent's Weekly Updates

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• District Updates
• Athletic Department Updates
• Berkowitz School Updates
• Hooks School Updates
• Kelly School Updates
• Sokolowski School Updates
• Browne Middle School Updates
• Wright Middle School Updates
• Chelsea High School Updates
• Messages From Our Community Partners

We had a wonderful time at Chelsea Day on Saturday!

Thank you to our student volunteers who helped organize activities for families and youth, our CHS Percussion Ensemble who performed at the event, and all our staff who helped support this annual event.

Chelsea Day brings out community together to celebrate everything that is special about our Chelsea community. 💜

Chelsea High School is once again teaming up with Boston Landmarks Orchestra for a FREE Hispanic Heritage Month Concert!

Two weeks from today, students in the CHS Orchestra will perform alongside the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the CHS Auditorium! The concert will be on Friday, October 2, at 7:00pm.

Admission is free, but registration is required. Please click here to register and for more information.

We so excited for our students to continue to have the opportunity to perform "side-by-side" with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra!

📸 | A picture of students and Boston Landmarks Orchestra musicians rehearsing for the 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month Concert at CHS.

What an incredible celebration we had today at Browne Middle School and Chelsea High School! Our AVID 5th, 7th, 9th grade students were extraordinary as they reflected on the prompt:

“Because of AVID, I…”

The students’ responses were powerful and inspiring. It was amazing to listen to them reflect on how AVID has helped them grow as learners, build confidence, set goals, advocate for themselves, and think about their futures. Today was a wonderful reminder that AVID is about so much more than academic skills. It is about helping students discover their strengths, believe in themselves, and develop the skills they need to succeed in college, careers, and life.

Check out our upcoming games.

Football-D.K. Martinez

Cross Country-Zakaria Moubtassim

Soccer-Genesis Monteagudo Flores, Donovan Ramirez, & Ciomara Mendoza Palma

Here we go again - the Red Devil Turkey Tort is coming the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Team award for the school with the most staff participation is in play again this year with the Hooks returning as defending champs! All proceeds go to the J. Barry Dwyer scholarship fund and CHS athletics. Questions: martineaum@chelseaschools.com

Berkowitz held its annual safe crossing and bus evacuation drills led by Kim Geraci and the CPS crossing guard team. Students practiced essential safety procedures for both crossing the street and evacuating a bus in case of an emergency.

First graders have been working hard on sorting shapes and collecting data! They get to use cubes, pattern blocks and more!

Students in room 112 have been practicing their rounding skills by making Pac-Man number lines!

In 305 we practiced our observation and writing skills by describing what we see inside of apples!

The Kelly School welcomed families to back to school night.

Our Soko Sharks practiced bus and crossing safety today! They did a great job listening, following directions, and learning how to stay safe when getting on and off the bus and crossing the street.

Great job, Sharks! Strive. Succeed. Soar!

Thank you to all of our families who joined us for Open House! We loved seeing you and sharing all the amazing things your students are learning and doing here at the Browne.

A big thank you to our amazing staff for making the evening run smoothly. Your hard work and dedication made it possible!

A special shout-out to the City of Chelsea – “Pa’Lante” Strategic Plan, The Navigator Program, and Harlem Lacrosse for joining us and sharing valuable resources with our families.

We appreciate our Browne community! Thank you for being part of our school family!

Thank you to all of our families who joined us for Open House! We loved seeing you and sharing all the amazing things your students are learning and doing here at the Browne.

A big thank you to our amazing staff for making the evening run smoothly. Your hard work and dedication made it possible!

A special shout-out to the City of Chelsea – “Pa’Lante” Strategic Plan, The Navigator Program, and Harlem Lacrosse for joining us and sharing valuable resources with our families.

We appreciate our Browne community! Thank you for being part of our school family!

Today, September 18th, The Wright held our first meeting/assembly for students. Students spoke and highlighted the Culture of Reading, Drop Everything and Read, launched our CORE VALUES PACK poster contest and recognized i-ready improvers in Math and ELA.

Let's Go Wolfpack!

Students in Mrs. Martinez’s WIN group were able to start practicing their fluency by reading independent reading books out loud! These whisper phones are so fun!

Community Transportation: Students practiced using our shuttle and the MBTA Blue Line. We traveled to State Station and visited the CharlieCard Store before heading to Boston Common. While in the community, students practiced customer service skills by ordering their own food and communicating with staff. We also explored Boston Common and looked at some of the historic statues before practicing our route back to school using the train and shuttle.

Independent Living & Cooking: On Thursday, students made apples with SunButter! They practiced following a four-step recipe, preparing their food, and working together. A special thank you to Mrs. Q for supporting our students during the activity. We had so much fun while building important independent living skills!

It was a great week of learning outside and inside the classroom!

Parents/Guardians are invited to connect with their child's assistant principal, connect, build relationships and enjoy a cup of coffee. They can come in and learn more about our school and best of all meet other families, ask questions, share ideas or offer feedback in a relaxed space

The 26th annual Kiwanis Track & Field Day is THIS Saturday, September 19, 2026 at the Mary C. Burke Complex! Registration is now open for all Chelsea students K-12. This is a free event with races, contests, prizes, raffles, food, ice cream, and more!

To register online, please click here.

For more information, visit www.chelseakiwanisclub.org.

The Chelsea Public Library is gearing up for its FOURTH Annual Teen Takeover on Friday, September 25th from 3pm-6pm.! We will be dedicating the Library space to teens and tweens, limiting regular library services and staying open an hour past our regular closing!

Featuring:
•Henna Art by Wicked Good Henna
•Open Game play with One Up Games - Your favorite community game room set up, including Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Virtual Reality and more!
•FREE Pizza and popcorn on us!
•Crafty activities
•and more!

If you want to give us a heads up that you're coming so we can plan our supplies, and so we can send you a reminder - fill out this link: https://bit.ly/TeenTakeOver

We hope to see you there! Stay tuned for more information!