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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Sep
2017
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Smith Academy launches sign language class
HATFIELD — Anyone passing by Brittainy Simpson’s classroom last Friday might have mistakenly thought they were witnessing a small miracle: a class of high school students making not a peep, a kind of silence unheard of during the very last period on the last day of...
Sep
2017
15
It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using?
Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings. But social media apps are appendages for tweens and teens. It’s one way they earn social currency. Below, a guide to what...
Sep
2017
15
G-M schools have higher enrollment
TURNERS FALLS — The Gill-Montague Regional School District has an increase in enrollment for the 2017-2018 school year. Superintendent Michael Sullivan said they are at 984 students total, which is an increase of 33 from last spring’s 2016-2017 enrollment. Last...
Sep
2017
13
Senate panel rejects Trump’s proposed federal education cuts
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a spending bill that rejects President Trump’s proposed cuts to education funding for fiscal year 2018 and, for now at least, derails the administration’s goal of directing federal dollars...
Sep
2017
13
Let them eat kale: Belchertown students plant, harvest the vegetable for cafeteria
BELCHERTOWN — With the sun streaming down and a slight autumn breeze in the air on Monday, it is not that surprising that the teachers at Swift River Elementary School wanted to get their students outside. What is more surprising is that they did not just go...
Sep
2017
12
Norris School social studies teacher makes 9/11 part of his lessons
SOUTHAMPTON — Brian Chamberlin stood in front of a sixth-grade class and held up a metal squeegee. The tool saved lives on Sept. 11, 2001, he told his students at the William E. Norris School, when a maintenance worker used it to help people who were stuck in an...
Sep
2017
11
Need for news literacy presses on educators in social-media age
AMHERST — The pope endorsed Donald Trump, who himself is facing sealed indictments and possibly the death penalty for espionage. Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and some members of his Democratic Party are engaged in a human trafficking ring run out...
Sep
2017
8
Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism
How do you write about the happy life you hope for your child to have when you have a hard time picturing it yourself? For 18 years, I’ve dreaded the yearly ritual of writing a “vision statement” for an Individualized Education Plan, or I.E.P., for our son, Ethan....
Sep
2017
8
Greenfield mulls how to fund school technology needs
GREENFIELD — How Greenfield should look to fund the school district’s constantly growing technology needs provoked a robust conservation at an afternoon school subcommittee meeting this week. Quickly it was agreed that the current ways to pay for new technology,...
Sep
2017
8
Northfield Elementary sees uptick in enrollment, adds teacher
NORTHFIELD — When preparing this school year’s budget, Northfield Elementary School Principal Megan Desmarais was anticipating another year with declining enrollment, a steady trend for more than a decade. But as enrollment numbers took shape in August, Desmarais...
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