The classroom hits the virtual road
EASTHAMPTON — To guide her students as they studied ancient Greece and Rome this spring, sixth-grade teacher Judith Breier took a different approach from the traditional textbook lesson. On June ...
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National Endowment for the Arts award will support local arts integration program for girls in the juvenile justice system
Northampton, MA - National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding ...
Gateway’s ‘blizzard bags’ cut makeup days in sunny June
HUNTINGTON — Many local students will find themselves staring longingly out the windows of their classrooms during the makeup snow days tacked onto their school year.
Students in Gateway ...
Science fun for Early Childhood CFCE families at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst
Amherst, MA – Over seventy-five families spent Monday morning learning about nature at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst. Children and their adults enjoyed nature play, creating, and exploring the ...
Over 340 educators convene on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: Bringing together Social and Emotional Learning, Trauma Sensitivity, and Positive Behavioral Approaches in Leominster, MA
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), in collaboration with the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and Mass ...
The Collaborative for Educational Services awarded Youth Opioid Prevention Grant
NORTHAMPTON -- Efforts to prevent drug and alcohol use among young people will expand in middle schools in Easthampton, South Hadley and Hadley as well as in Amherst–Pelham and Hampshire ...
Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered
Public schools are increasingly filled with black and Hispanic students, but the children identified as “gifted” in those schools are overwhelmingly white and Asian.
The numbers are startling. ...
Expressing What Matters to Youth in the DYS Program
The banner above the stage reads “Voice What Matters”, and at the 4th Annual June “Share Your Art, Share Your Voice” Statewide Youth Showcase sponsored by the Department of Youth Services (DYS), ...
Working to Help People Grows Important life Skills
Doug stands at the large bin of red apples, pulling them out by handfuls to put in a large plastic bag. His work today is to fill bags of apples to a certain weight, so that they can be ...
State Pre-K Funding 2016-17 Fiscal Year: Trends and opportunities
Birth to age eight represents a critically important window of opportunity to develop a child’s full potential and to shape key academic, social, emotional and cognitive skills. A child’s ...
Williamstown School Committee Talks Special Education Collaboration
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — A collaborative agreement among North County school districts could save money and improve outcomes for special needs students throughout the district, an official working on ...
Mahar, Orange, Petersham school committees OK online assignment ‘Blizzard Bags’
ORANGE, MA — Orange schools will be experimenting this winter with using “blizzard bags” to make snow days count.
Mahar Regional and Orange school committees have approved a pilot project to ...