…members. ISTE, meanwhile, serves educators interested in tech and innovation, as well as edtech leaders, and has around 23,000 members. ISTE is best known for hosting an annual edtech conference…
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CES Profile – After School Programs, Learning Inspired by Fun
…that a majority of students from low income homes, students with special needs, and other students considered at-risk are able to attend. All of the programs are grounded in evidence-based…
GHS students participating in Community Service Learning Day
GREENFIELD — Greenfield High School students in grades eight through 12 will have the opportunity on Friday to do everything from work with elementary school students, provide music programs and…
More state aid for rural schools this year
…mile in communities where the average per-capita income is not greater than the statewide income average. School districts with less than 11 students per square mile and incomes of no…
Focus on Teaching Students in Poverty
…of Massachusetts DESE’s Leading Educational Access Project (LEAP) to improve outcomes for students in poverty. The work was a natural outgrowth of his deep focus on students at risk, and…
Fifteen Superintendents Express Charter Concerns with Area Legislators
…expansion on small and rural districts. Representative Stephen Kulik, (First Franklin District); and Senator Benjamin Downing, (Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, Hampden Districts) were presented an analysis of data about the disproportionate…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…In a workshop after his speech, Zhao offered specific ideas for using technology to boost learning, including: encouraging students to use to technology to produce “actual products,” for example, writing…
Monte’s March
…a small caravan of musicians and supporters trailing behind him. Earlier that morning, Jake and other HEC Academy students walked several miles with Belmonte through Amherst. Collaborative students were easy…
Pioneer Special Olympics bowling group connects ‘unified buddies’ with student athletes
…and now has roughly 15 high school and middle school students volunteering as “unified buddies” with the 10 Special Olympics athletes. For eight weeks, in January and February, students head…
Massachusetts Migrant Education Program provides support across the Commonwealth
…students that aligned well with the MMEP work, and it was the plan to build collaborations between the MMEP and other CES programs, such as the Early Childhood Programs and…