…Massachusetts. An experienced staff developer, he served in that role in Cambridge, MA and has spoken on multicultural schools, performance-based assessment, restructuring rural schools, and co-facilitated the Inclusive Practices Network…
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SPIFFY Youth Steering Committee Member Gets Youth Activist Award from the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
…member of the Trans Youth Action Team at Translate Gender, and was a founding member of POSH (People Opposed to Sexual Harassment) in the Amherst Regional Public Schools. Yay, Z!…
Governor Baker signs FY16 Budget
…in the funds for both the Special Education circuit breaker program and the regional school transportation reimbursements over FY15. The circuit breaker figure is $271.7 million, which is an $18.3…
HCC Receives $1 Million Grant To Build New Engineering Program
…recognized as HSIs when their Hispanic/Latinx enrollment exceeds 25%. HCC’s partners in the grant include Holyoke High School, Westfield High School, Western New England University, UMass Amherst, the Northampton-based Collaborative…
Local eighth-graders honored as Project 351 ambassadors, will meet Gov. Baker
…of the meeting to think of a pressing societal issue to share. Cheri Hoyle, a guidance counselor at the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange, has been involved with…
PVRS students showcase robotic fish feeders in first ever Pioneer Engineering Expo
NORTHFIELD — After more than a month of design, programming and prototype construction, Pioneer Valley Regional School’s engineering design students displayed their robotic fish feeders during the first-ever Engineering Expo…
Officials sound off to legislators on broadband, schools
…listening tour and began their day in the Conway Town Hall. Speakers from regional planning agencies tried to explain some of the interrelated problems rural towns face, including: Declining populations…
Area schools turn to Google’s online software solutions
…for word processing, storage, presentations and other functions. The students in Michele Andrews’ fifth grade class at R.K. Finn Ryan Road School quickly found the waffle on their screens and…
Wanted: Members for Hampshire County Food Policy Council
NORTHAMPTON — A food policy council for Hampshire County is seeking members to join its fledgling group, established two years ago as a means to address regional food insecurity and…
Frozen yogurt and a chance to celebrate working for healthy communities
…across Hampshire County and the Hilltowns; volunteers and community leaders; funders; and project representatives from organizations that included the Hampshire Regional YMCA, CISA, Grow Food Northampton, PVGrows Investment Fund, Amherst…