Karen Reuter, deputy director at the Collaborative for Educational Services, remembers the moment when she knew its trainings for early childhood educators were taking hold. One of the workshop participants stopped…
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Capstone: Implementing Best Practices
This course is the culminating experience for candidates in the M.Ed. in Curriculum and Teaching. In this course, candidates will have the opportunity to implement, at an advanced level, educational…
Justin Desai
Justin has spent the past 20 years as a public school teacher at TechBoston Academy. Justin started the AP Calculus program at TechBoston, where he redesigned the vertical alignment to…
Lin Notzelman
Lin Notzelman has been the coordinator for the Ware Family Center and the Parent-Child Home Program since 2007. A mother to four creative children, she is most passionate about working…
Editorial: Healthy Hampshire shines welcome light on challenges
…Southpoint Apartments and The Boulders. An estimated 2,000 people live in about 780 housing units, and many depend on public transportation. The Amherst Health Department commissioned the Healthy Hampshire program…
Laurie Risler
Laurie Risler is a former elementary school teacher. She now teaches education courses at Westfield State University. She has co-led professional development programs in history for the Collaborative for Educational…
SPIFFY’s June 2025 Full Coalition Meeting
…coalition members to connect and learn about the research behind bell-to-bell cell phone policies in schools, as well as hear directly from a panel of students and staff form schools…
Amherst Regional High School prepares to expand interactive math curriculum that encourages flexibility, multiple solutions
…department head Jane Mudie and other members of her department think math classes should move. The Interactive Mathematics Program curriculum, published by It’s About Time Interactive, presents students with practical…
Steering Committee member Kris Hoag featured in SADO.D.
SPIFFY Steering Committee member Kris Hoag, Program Director for BOAT (Belchertown Overcoming Adversity Together), was recently featured on the SADO.D. (Support After a Death by Overdose) website for her work…
Hands-on science for Sunderland children
…the Swampfield Drive school’s gymnasium as part of “Thinking Buddies,” an innovative science program, new in this year’s curriculum, that pairs older and younger students for hands-on creative projects. Around…