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 the collaboration…
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Baker-Polito Administration Honors 51 Schools – recognized for high achievement, strong progress or narrowing gaps
MALDEN – The Baker-Polito Administration today held a ceremony at the State House to recognize 51 schools for high achievement, narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students or making strong…
Meaningfully Teaching Multilingual Learners
…draw on students‘ literacies in the classroom. The Culture focus is on defining culture, collecting information about a learner’s cultural funds of knowledge, examining culture’s relationship with identity, power relations,…
Districts team up on county’s first public therapeutic day school
…on the needs of the individual students,” said Drury. Three northern Berkshire school districts – North Adams, Adams-Cheshire, and North Berkshire School Union – have collaborated to launch the North…
Massachusetts DESE Responds to USED Request for Certification
…with longstanding federal law, Massachusetts will continue to promote diversity in our schools, because we know it improves outcomes for all of our students, and we have more work to…
Alison Noyes
…English Language learners and high school history and worked for many years with international students and college study abroad as a program director and assistant dean before returning to focus…
State board rejects Hadley Chinese charter school expansion
HADLEY, MA — After hearing testimony that the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is draining resources from local school districts and not educating a sufficiently diverse student body, the…
New Professional Learning Communities coming this fall to CES
…Co-planning and co-teaching; Common Core State Standards; PARCC testing; and Working with struggling learners. Fiona is a Teacher/Librarian at Pioneer Valley Regional Schools, where in addition to working with students…
Working with the Struggling Reader
…in reading instruction programs for students with diverse educational and/or cultural needs. Hands-on clinical work with students is a central part of the course. In a four-session module that is…
Mount Tom Academy awards diplomas to eleven
…Leaphart and Max Fripp spoke of each student’s gifts before diplomas were handed out. Graduating students came from eight different schools within Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties. Mount Tom Academy…