This year, Sabine Denise Jacques and Mariah Lapiroff from the CES Joy and Justice team have been facilitating a theater club in Easthampton that centers self- and social-awareness, embodied connection, and belonging and joy for 6th & 7th graders. They have been using the Brown Paper Studio theater practice to support collaborative thinking and play. Brown Paper Studio is an arts methodology designed to awaken creativity within individuals and groups and to utilize the resulting creative energy for peaceful social transformation; and a unique theater practice that uses art, games,...
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Mar
2020
5
Focus on Teaching Students in Poverty
Dr. Albert Mussad began presenting to educators about teaching students who experience poverty back in 2016, through his initial work leading the training-of-trainers component of Massachusetts DESE's Leading Educational Access Project (LEAP) to improve outcomes...
Mar
2020
4
Conway Grammar School hosts guest readers for Dr. Seuss’ birthday
CONWAY — Monday would have been the 116th birthday of Springfield native Theodor Seuss Geisel. You know him as Dr. Seuss, and for 83 years children have pored over his more than 60 illustrated books for lessons on life, in poetic meter. To celebrate the legend’s...
Mar
2020
4
A meeting of the minds: Sunderland sixth-graders interview UMass graduate students for podcasts
SUNDERLAND — Ryan Copeland, a sixth-grade teacher at Sunderland Elementary School, wanted to bring the traditional school report or essay more into alignment with the way his students interact with information on the internet. So, instead of having his students...
Feb
2020
28
Government 101: Primary voting explained by a high school teacher
SOUTH DEERFIELD — What’s a primary? What’s a superdelegate? Why is Iowa such a big deal? What are we voting for, again? American democracy is complicated. Laura Moore, who teaches government at Frontier Regional School, understands this completely. In fact, she has...
Feb
2020
27
Meet Mack: Gill-Montague’s school comfort dog
TURNERS FALLS — A 5-week-old chocolate Labrador named Mack is headed to the Gill-Montague Regional School District next month to become the first full-time school comfort dog in Franklin County. Mack will work with School Resource Officer Dan Miner to establish...
Feb
2020
21
Warwick Community School Improv Club puts creativity to test with annual performance
WARWICK — Warwick Community School students let their imaginations run wild on Tuesday, pretending to be animals and creating spontaneous stories during an Improv Club performance at Town Hall. The 15 students in the school’s Improv Club gave a 30-minute...
Feb
2020
21
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
12
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...
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