SHELBURNE — A group of Mohawk Trail Regional School District teachers is pondering the question of how to address hate speech in school environments. Led by an ad hoc committee of teachers and staff, the district welcomed educators, School Committee members and community members to the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center in June to start a dialogue about discrimination, hate speech, bias, and how to create school communities that foster openness and a sense of belonging. “The goal was not just to have one event, but to begin many more conversations,” said Boris Samarov, a...
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Feb
2020
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Teacher Lauren Brown set to temporarily lead Northampton’s Jackson Street School
NORTHAMPTON — A fifth grade teacher who is training to be a school leader has been named Jackson Street School’s interim principal for next school year. Superintendent John Provost announced earlier this month that he intends to appoint Lauren Brown to temporarily...
Feb
2020
20
Mass Association of School Superintendents Supports Attorney General Healey in JUUL lawsuit announcement
Paul Andrews, M.A.S.S. Director of Professional Development and Government Relation, represented M.A.S.S. today as Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office has sued JUUL Labs Inc. for creating a youth vaping epidemic by intentionally marketing and...
Feb
2020
19
Resources for Social Justice in Education Work
In the spirit of Black History Month as a time to reflect and dig deeper into our commitments, CES would like to share some resources for those of you doing social justice and equity work in education. These come highly recommended by Safire DeJong, Ed.D., one of...
Feb
2020
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School panel takes aim at gun violence
HATFIELD — In 1992, Anne Thalheimer was a teenager in her second year at Bard College at Simon’s Rock when her life changed. “I was writing a paper for his class … and then the phone rang, a voice telling us to turn out the lights, lock the door and get down on the...
Feb
2020
12
Pioneer Special Olympics bowling group connects ‘unified buddies’ with student athletes
ERVING — The sound of children’s laughter blended with the crashing and rattling of bowling pins at the French King Bowling alley Thursday during another week of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Special Olympics bowling season. The annual program is...
Feb
2020
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CES After School Program celebrates twenty years
The first CES After School Program opened at Palmer Middle School twenty years ago. Today, Palmer is one of only a handful of sites in Massachusetts designated as a Demonstration level site, excelling in multiple areas of programming. CES currently runs thirteen...
Jan
2020
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Belchertown teacher named Grammy Music Educator Award finalist
BELCHERTOWN — Swift River Elementary School teacher Geoffrey Gould is in the running to take home Grammy gold on Sunday after being chosen as a finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award. Gould, who was nominated for the award by a colleague, found out last year...
Jan
2020
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Connecting with a new generation: Amherst program links students of Cambodian descent to their roots
When he was little, Shane Mang, the son of Cambodian immigrants, spoke some Khmer, the Cambodian language, around his home. Now a sixth grader at Crocker Farm School, Shane is reminded of many basic words in that language while attending an after-school program...
Jan
2020
22
Practical physics: Turners Falls students analyze speeds on tricky village roads
TURNERS FALLS — The newest advisors to the Montague Selectboard may be a group of high school students. As the culminating project for the semester, the Turners Falls High School physics class studied two difficult turns on roads in Turners Falls to try to...
Jan
2020
20
PVRS students showcase robotic fish feeders in first ever Pioneer Engineering Expo
NORTHFIELD — After more than a month of design, programming and prototype construction, Pioneer Valley Regional School’s engineering design students displayed their robotic fish feeders during the first-ever Engineering Expo last week. The Engineering Expo...
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