Jeanne Tuthill, an assistive technology specialist at the CCATT Center, has prepared a post for Carole Zangari’s PracticalAAC Blog, and we are pleased to share the blog with you: If…
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Greenfield teacher wins national award for sharing personal story
…aloud in the Newton School gymnasium — written not by a current fifth grader but by a Newton School teacher about when she was in fifth grade. “I was switching…
Commissioner Announces 2021 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Malden middle school math teacher Jennifer Hedrington receives state’s top educator award
…Cleary, a fifth grade science teacher at the J. Turner Hood School in North Reading; Diana Kinney, a fifth grade teacher at Cottage Street School in Sharon; Adele McCarthy, a…
First wave of students wowed by new Easthampton school
…fourth grade, I was super excited to have lockers in fifth grade, I don’t know why, but we didn’t get that,” said sixth grader Hayden Donovan. “So, I’m pretty excited.”…
National speaker shares effective techniques for teaching vocabulary at Collaborative for Educational Services workshop
…of new words if they learn and use them in meaningful contexts. Therese Chehade, a fifth grade EL teacher at Wildwood Elementary School in Amherst, put the Word Generation technique…
Northfield Elementary sees uptick in enrollment, adds teacher
…who enrolled late in the summer, Desmarais had to split both fifth– and third-grade classes, moving teachers between grades and hiring Elizabeth Aekus to teach one of the fifth-grade classes….
Fond farewell: Bittersweet final day at Cheshire Elementary
…restructured into pre-kindergarten through third grade at C.T. Plunkett Elementary in Adams while fourth and fifth grade students move to the middle school at Hoosac Valley Middle and High School…
Mohawk aims to move sixth grade in 2019
BUCKLAND — If the Mohawk Trail Regional School District’s plan to move sixth-graders to the middle school is approved by member towns, today’s fourth-grade classes at Sanderson Academy, Buckland-Shelburne and…
Jacqueline LaFrance
…Massachusetts Writing Project in 2022, she developed a professional learning session on historically responsive literacy using a lesson she co-created with 4th Grade EL students as they studied the last…
How one Massachusetts town turned around early reading program
…the top readers, and Reidy, now his fifth-grade teacher, has watched him become “empowered” by reading. When he chose Pam Muñoz Ryan’s award-winning “Esperanza Rising” – about a girl from…