…Hampshire counties. The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and the superintendents of most of the school districts in Franklin and Hampshire counties have been examining the data about enrollment trends…
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Mahar teacher Angela Cote honored for ‘making learning fun
…students, and brings innovation to the forefront of students’ education. One of Ms. Cote’s students recently described her as ‘making learning fun and understandable,’” the school said in a statement….
Mohawk versus charters: District to rally against tuition hikes
…tuition, regardless of what it costs the charter school to educate its students. As Mohawk’s student populations decreases, its per-pupil costs rise, because of fixed costs and the teachers who…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…pockets. On Poem in Your Pocket Day — April 30 this year — students in other grades are encouraged to ask the second-graders to read their poems aloud. Students are…
Local schools to form rural association
…an official name. Rural school districts are those with fewer than 1,000 students, or which serve towns with fewer than 10 students per square mile. Last month, Buoniconti invited several…
Driving Through Mud: How Rural Mass. Schools Are Coping With Rising Transportation Costs
…have been declining in enrollment. Between 2008 and 2017, rural schools in the state lost 14 percent of their students. Fewer students translates to less funding overall from the state….
What’s the Real Message? – Making Sense of the Challenging Behaviors We See Every Day
Do you work with students labeled as “difficult”, “challenging”, or “unmotivated”? Whether a result of trauma, depression, anxiety, or other issues, those labeled the most challenging are full of promise,…
‘You’re braver than you believe’ Smith Voc sends 122 grads out into world
…stage to applause and the occasional air horn blast. The students honored with their diplomas studied everything from animal science to plumbing, culinary arts to cosmetology. Michael Cahillane, a graduate…
Cite-Seeing with AI: A Perplexity Adventure
…how educators and students are using it and try it yourself! Most students & educators want to use Chat GPT as a research assistant, but it isn’t always a good…
Area parents share concerns about school reopening plans
With some families favoring remote instruction for their children, others favoring a return to in-person education and still others hoping for a hybrid of the two, there seems to be…