…Teacher Award, designated for promising educators with 1-3 years’ full-time experience. Harold Grinspoon, of Longmeadow, is a philanthropist who made his living as a real estate entrepreneur after dyslexia prevented…
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Holliston’s Jackson named Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year
…to get a job closer to his current home in Wilmington, about a 75-minute commute to Holliston. “I found out really quickly that Holliston was a real special community that…
How Children Can Become Caring Community Members
…bringing parents and children together to teach them about important character strengths, from empathy to generosity, and then co-creating experiences for those families to practice the skills in the real…
ISTE Expands Certification Program
…engage students in real-world, authentic and active learning. The vendor-neutral certification program focuses on applying the seven ISTE Standards for Educators: Learner, Leader, Citizen, Collaborator, Designer, Facilitator and Analyst. Educators…
Not country — but a great teacher: Kayla Werlin of Hadley wins Country Music Association Award as a top music instructor
…— is now trying to devise ways to work with her students online, with schools shut because of the COVID-19 outbreak. “Country music is not something I know a lot…
Trauma Informed Schools: Creating Classroom Culture
I think we can all agree that despite all we know about behavior and trauma sensitive schools, the behaviors and attitudes about learning seen in today’s classrooms have changed. Since…
ONLINE: Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources
Social Studies and Humanities pose distinct challenges for struggling learners, including extensive discipline-specific vocabulary, difficult informational texts – including complex primary sources – and a need for background knowledge. However,…
Safe and Healthy Schools Summit draws educators in discussion of how to manage race, polarizing conversations in schools
…“I think these kinds of events are important, so that educators can come together from our different districts, and hear from each other, educator activists, and our students, and really…
Students to ask state for more education funds
Students and educators from seven Pioneer Valley school districts are going to Boston on Feb. 28 to ask state lawmakers to increase funding for rural schools. The students were supposed…
MCAS Requirement Waived for Mass. Students This Spring
Students in Massachusetts won’t have to take the MCAS exams this spring, amid school closures across the state due to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Charlie Baker signed the law that…