CCPCR Census Data Fall 2016

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Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
Jan. '10 Amherst Regional Middle School Sara Marruffo (413) 362-1701 (413) 549-9704

Golosa Books 1 and 2
Troika

K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
14 0 0 0 0 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
21 Mattoon St. Amherst MA 01002 marruffos@arps.org 14

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Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
10 Nov. '11 Amherst Regional HS Sara Marruffo (413) 362-1700 (413) 549-9704

Golosa I and II, Supplementary materials heavily used

K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 0  5 2 0 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
21 Mattoon St. Amherst MA 01002 marruffos@arps.org 7 

Comment

Levels 1 and 2 are taught at the Amherst Regional Middle School.

Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
Feb. 22, 2017 Austin Preparatory School Robert Hennessy (781) 944-4900 (781) 944-7530 Russian Face to Face I
Russian Face to Face II
Russian Faces and Voices
The General's Daughter
Live from Russia level 2
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 0 0 12 6 4 0
             
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
101 Willow St. Reading MA 01867 rhennessy@austinprepschool.org 22

Comment

Program phasing out
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Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
April 26, 2016 Buckingham Brown & Nichols School Joshua Walker (617)547-6100 (617)576-1139 Live from Russia!, Welcome Back!
           
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 11 9 12 7 2 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
80 Gerry's Landing Road Cambridge MA 02138 jwalker@bbns.org 39

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Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
17 Nov. '10   Duxbury HS Christopher Hilton 781-934-7650 ALM Russian 1 & II, 2nd ed. 1969
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
130 St. George St. Duxbury MA 02332 c_hilton@duxbury.k12.ma.us 0

Comment

Program still on hiatus: have student interest but not the budget

Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
22 March, 2017  Middleborough HS Jim Michael (508)946-2010 (508)946-8852

ALM (Harcourt/Brace/World) 1st. ed. and all supplementals.
- "Bednaya Anya"/ "Novi Houdini" (Blaine Ray)
- First Russian Reader
- Various supplemental materials and videos including "Finding Nemo", "Chicken Run", "Lilo + Stitch", "Shrek series"
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 11 19 20 20 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
71 East Grove St. (Rt. 28) Middleborough MA 02346 jmichael@middleboro.k12.ma.us 70

Comment

Big drop in totals from last year, this seems evident in many US high school Russian programs. Russian at the h.s. level needs special support in American public schools in order to achieve consistency and growth in enrollment. But maybe "developments" in world events might just ease the dearth in numbers during the next few years??? It's astounding to think of how many Russian high school students are currently studying English vs. how many of ours study their language.

 
Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
25 Jan. 06 Newton North HS Lucien Weisbrod (617) 559-6400 (617) 559-6204 Russian Alive! for Level 1, 2, 3. Various readers and grammar worksheets for Russian 3&4.
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 0 13 0 7 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
360 Lowell Ave Newtonville MA 02460 lucienweisbrod@hotmail.com 20

Comment:

Program Terminated: 2007

After 40+ years in existence, program is slated to follow the dinosaurs. Another statement to mark the time in which we

live.

Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
May 1, 2016 Newton South HS Jill Christensen (617) 559-6602 n/a

Russian Alive (Cioran)
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 1 19 13 5 12 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
140 Brandeis Rd. Newton Centre MA 02459 christensenj@newton.k12.ma.us 50

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Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
14 May 06 Nortfield Mt. Hermon Elena Michelson (413) 498-3493 (413) 4989-3155 Nachalo
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 11 7 0 3 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
206 Main St. Northfield MA 01360 emichels@nmhschool.org 21

Comment

Serdechnyi privet to my colleagues and to all supporters of the Russian programs, to all those who keep the teaching of Russian alive. NMH is the 4th school in my "American teaching career, and in 2 of those schools, very well established programs were cancelled because of "insufficient" enrollment numbers, or rather because of insufficient funds allocated to teaching foreign languages and to Russian in particular.
We all know that there are almost no Middle schools, where Russian is being taught, and hence no feeding schools for the few High schools where Russian classes are still available. This year, we attribute our very modest success of attracting 11 new freshmen to the Russian I class to the flyer, which we have sent in late spring to each and every freshmen before they started selecting courses for their first year at our school. In this flyer we gave a very short description of our program, but mostly we quoted our students describing their unique experience of studying Russian at our schools. Our little pole showed later that most of the students who opted for Russian decide to take it after reading this flyer. Now we are preparing for the next round of our battle for Russian. Please wish us success, as we are wishing all of you derzat i ne sdavatsya!
Entry Date School Name Teachers Phone Fax Textbooks
15 April, '16 Phillips Academy Peter Merrill, Victor Svec (978)749-4200 (978)749-4206 own online textbook: 1st and 2nd year self-created digital textbook, 3-5 various readers
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 21 8 7 7 11 9
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
180 S. Main Andover MA 01810 pmerrill@andover.edu vsvec@andover.edu 62

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n/a
Entry Date School Name Teacher Phone Fax Textbooks
No info received since 2000 South Shore Charter School Lydia Richardson (781)925-7000 n/a Original Materials
K-8 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Street City State Zip E-mail Total
2 A St. Hull MA 02045 n/a 0

Comment

Program Terminated