…Emotional Learning and Play and Learning Standards Massachusetts Science, Technology/Engineering Frameworks According to Kathleen Bailer, John Ashley School and Cowing School Principal, West Springfield, these initiatives have had a major,…
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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…
When it comes to learning about edtech, I’ve noticed a pattern among adult learners (including me!). They/we routinely enter into learning about tech feeling like they are way behind or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Early Childhood Mental Health
…in Springfield, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC). Home E Search query for: blog blog 2023 11 07 franklin tech students take agriculture…
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…