…intense quiet; but Kuhlka keeps a watchful eye on all, the students keep their focus, and they successfully complete the day’s work. Kuhlka has been with Pioneer Valley Regional School…
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Career Skills Workshop at the Amherst Survival Center
…for the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), Crystal Cartwright, Vocational Coordinator for Amherst Regional High School, and Anne Barnes from Community Action. Panelists included two employees of University of Massachusetts,…
Leslie B. Edinson
…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…
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…