NORTHAMPTON — With Massachusetts schools closed through at least April 7 as part of a state effort to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, school districts are adjusting to…
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Gill-Montague IT director earns MassCUE Administrator Award for tech innovation
MONTAGUE — An organization of educators who push technological innovation is honoring a Gill-Montague Regional School District administrator as the state’s sole recipient of the 2022 MassCUE Administrator Award. MassCUE,…
Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) helps teachers communicate with students who have difficulty speaking
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Imagine how isolating and frustrating it would be if you couldn’t speak clearly enough to be understood. There are many students across Massachusetts in this situation. Luckily,…
Local author shows how memory is critical to teaching struggling learners
…that affect a student’s learning. As educators we need to be able to understand all these factors and create a classroom environment that supports learning,” said Pransky. He gave the…
Franklin County Technical School receives grant for tree nursery
…Greenfield and Montague tree committees wrote a grant proposal for the project, which resulted in an $18,000, five-year grant from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts to create a tree…
New Leader of Early Childhood Programs Joins the Collaborative for Educational Services
…and has significant experience teaching college level classes at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Greenfield Community College. She takes on the role from her predecessor, Barbara Finlayson, who recently…
Science fun for Early Childhood CFCE families at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst
…You Don’t (learning about creatures in the wild who use camouflage). These early childhood centers are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, through the Coordinated Family…
Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) Hires New Executive Director
…Michigan University, as a professor of Secondary Literacy Education. He also holds a Massachusetts school superintendent license. He lives in Northampton with his wife, Jeanne Birdsall, the award-winning children’s book…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…Massachusetts, have adopted to ensure that students who graduate from high school are ready for college and careers. Zhao said Common Core standards, and tests used to measure whether students…
Not country — but a great teacher: Kayla Werlin of Hadley wins Country Music Association Award as a top music instructor
…music teacher from Massachusetts to receive the award. “I’m very honored,” Werlin said during a recent call to her home in Hadley, where she — like so many other teachers…