…districts to accommodate special education students, including help for high-cost students and assistance paying part of a salary for highly specialized staff to help retain them. ■Establish a Special Education…
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Bridging to Belonging: PLC Summer 2024
…communities and schools. In this PLC series, we frame and explore tensions across differences that are present in our schools as we seek to find ways for all students and…
Swift River School forum on standardized testing draws large crowd
…parents from local and surrounding towns. Students attending included the student council president of Swift River School. The Presenting panel was led by Bartlett and MASC Executive Director Glenn Koocher,…
Graduation Rates Up, Dropouts Down in Massachusetts High Schools
Massachusetts four-year high school graduation rates climbed for the ninth year in a row in 2015 with some of the largest gains recorded by some minority groups and students from…
Meeting the Needs of Visual-Spatial Learners
This course will provide participants with the resources to understand the different elements of Visual Spatial learners. It will provide the steps for curriculum differentiation which benefits all students. Participants…
Whately teacher selected for Global Learning Fellowship
…result of the fellowship, Anderson will be better equipped to prepare students for global citizenship. Fellows also create valuable global lesson plans for their students that are freely shared with…
School transportation costs a burden to Mohawk Trail
…be made up by cutting other parts of the budget.” Against a backdrop of its being the state’s most sparsely populated school district — with fewer than two students per…
Teaching about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement Outside the South
…and Civil Rights with their students, but they are almost exclusively Southern stories. In this workshop we will explore how we can bring stories about segregation and civil rights struggles…
Isolda Ortega-Bustamante
Isolda Ortega-Bustamante is the Director of Development for the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, MA. She was the Director of State and Federal Programs for the Holyoke Public Schools…
Read Across America Day
…author, to a roomful of Newton School students. Lowe, author of the “Power of Poppy Pendle,” series was among six renowned local children’s book authors to read to students and…