TURNERS FALLS, MA — As principal of the Franklin County Technical School, Richard Martin was known for a nearer-than-the-bleachers involvement in the vocational high school’s sports teams, suiting up for practice and running drills with teenagers. Martin, 50, of...
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Mayor David J. Narkewicz today announced that the City of Northampton has received a $50,000 Mass in Motion Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to promote public health regionally through the Healthy Hampshire collaborative....
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Many young people who are involved with Department of Youth Services (DYS), the state's juvenile justice system, have been challenged by traditional teaching approaches used in their previous school settings. But there may be a powerful way to...
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Educators engage struggling learners when they use teaching techniques that are in sync with the brain's memory systems, says local educator and author, Ken Pransky. In his new book, Memory at Work in the Classroom: Strategies to Help...
NORTHAMPTON MA - The community will have a chance Wednesday, in a whirlwind of meetings and interviews, to hear from three candidates for the post of school superintendent, topped off with a planned decision by the school board. The three finalists, chosen from a...
HOLYOKE, MA - Web Design and Computer Programming Instructor Karen Morneau says that whenever the Robotics Club meets at Dean Technical High School, more students show up. The afterschool club is popular, she says, because students soon learn that working with...
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