Shaler Area

School District

Shaler Area

School District

Shaler Area

School District

Reflecting on 9/11

Twenty years ago Shaler Area Middle School teacher Brian Duermeyer started an annual assembly to commemorate 9/11. Duermeyer explains: I started 9/11 Day in 2005 after realizing my students had very little knowledge of what had happened four years earlier. The old SAMS held a building-wide moment of silence, but

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Dishing out Lessons in Science

Recently, science students in Mr. LaGamba and Mrs. Lafayette’s classes began their first lab of the year. The objective of the lab was to test different dish soap brands through trials to see which brand yielded the highest diameter.

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SAMS Student Named CLO Mini Star

Congratulations to Savannah, a seventh-grade student at Shaler Area Middle School, who has earned a spot in CLO Mini Stars through a rigorous audition process. The Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars, a hallmark of the organization’s legacy in cultivating young musical theater talent have returned to the Pittsburgh area to delight

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SAMS Lockdown Drill

Dear Parents/Guardians, At Shaler Area Middle School, ensuring a safe and secure learning environment for our students and staff is always our highest priority. One key component of maintaining that safety is routinely practicing our emergency procedures so that everyone is prepared to respond effectively if needed. Throughout the school

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Mapping New Understanding

Students in Mrs. Welka’s seventh-grade Ancient Empire class are learning about longitude and latitude and how these conceptual lines form an imaginary grid on the surface of the earth. These lines are used to find absolute location. Students used Google Earth’s latitude and longitude feature to locate specific places around

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Island Investigations

This summer, six Shaler Area students experienced biology and culture in a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos Islands. Middle school students Colby Mine, Skylar Mine, Nick Mulkerin, Paige Peterson, Katie Polochak, and Dillon Stegman, led by Teacher Dennis Reagle, first stopped in Quito, Ecuador. While in Quito, students toured a

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Take Five with Dr. O’Black

August 29, 2025 Dear Shaler Area Families,  As we conclude the second week of the school year, I want to express my sincere gratitude for your continued support and partnership. It has been wonderful to see our students settling into their routines, reconnecting with teachers and friends, and embracing the

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Bus Evacuation Drill

Hello Shaler Area Middle School Families, On Wednesday September 3rd, 2025, the Shaler Area Middle School will hold its first bus evacuation drill of the year in the morning. Shaler Area Middle School buses will enter campus as usual on the LIBRARY side of the building and proceed to the

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SAMS Picture Day

Inter-State Studio will be on campus on Wednesday, September 3, 2025. Order forms will be sent home on the first day of school, but online ordering is available by visiting https://inter-state.com/order  and using the order code 0167BDB.  Shipping and handling charges may apply to orders placed after picture day.

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