Education

“The Nutcracker” Is Coming

You know it’s the holiday season when tickets go on sale for the Hampton Ballet Theatre School’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” at Guild Hall. And so they have.

The school’s dancers have been hard at work all fall preparing for the production, which will be staged on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., Dec. 7 at 1 and 7 p.m., and Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $20 to $45 in advance, $25 to $50 the day of the show, but be warned: Seats for this popular production have been known to sell out in advance.

Teachers of generations past may have lamented “ants in the pants” as a cause of classroom distractions by fidgety kids. Today, schools like the Springs School are taking a more holistic approach to managing those “ants.”

The Children’s Museum of the East End will host a book swap in its lobby on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Katy Graves, the Sag Harbor School District superintendent, stepped down over the weekend to have “immediate surgery” in New York City, the district announced Saturday.

Just over a month ago, the East Hampton School Board began prioritizing the building projects on the district’s to-do list.

In conversation together, Anita Boyer and Kasia Klimiuk have the sort of energy that sparks back-and-forth like a pinball machine fueled by lightning.

Several parents and others in the Amagansett School community have expressed unhappiness with a recent decision by the school board to appoint a new member to a vacant seat without widely publicizing it.

Mary McCaffrey, the Wainscott School's secretary and district clerk for 19 years, died on Monday. Services will be held on Friday and Saturday.

Jason Warnick, who serves as the Ross School’s director of advancement and enrollment, has been appointed head of school at the Wayland Academy, an international boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wis.

What started out as a time-traveling biography concept has morphed into “A Dream for the Future,” in which three children dream that their heroes visit them and give them practical advice.

Wally the dog will be at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday morning to listen patiently to kids who are just getting comfortable reading out loud.

Students in the East Hampton, Springs, Montauk, Sag Harbor, and Amagansett School Districts scored higher on state standardized tests, on average, than their peers throughout New York, data released by the state show.