FLIP IT is a four step supportive strategy to help young children identify their feelings, learn healthy self-control and reduce challenging behavior. This workshop will teach participants how to respond…
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Gail Gramarossa, MPH, CHES
…Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities and a public health and human services consultant. She has written successful grant proposals to SAMSHA, HRSA, MDPH, BSAS, USDOE, OJJDP, and numerous community foundations….
HEC Academy students raise $1,135 to battle hunger
…carts along a 26-mile route, from Northampton to Greenfield, collecting donations for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts along the way. This year, Monte?s March raised over $65,000. HEC Academy…
Art therapy: Northampton authors launch new drawing webcasts to help kids, parents cope during pandemic
…is named Miyagi’s Japanese Food and the national sport is catching flies with chopsticks (yes, he recently watched “The Karate Kid”). All the while, as my phone rang and pinged…
US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner
…of both integrated environmental science and food education lessons. Weekly cooking classes have also been part of the garden work. Students volunteer at several sustainability organizations, such as the annual…
The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program Partners with School Districts
…recovery programming in the evening. MMEP provided transportation, food, the physical space and student coordination while SPS provided the curriculum and teachers. SPS offers a Ready for Kindergarten program as…
Students Learn at local horse farm
…have been taught how to care for an animal and meet its basic needs of adequate shelter, a clean stall, food and water. They heard some of the stories of…
Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for October and November
…exposing students to food from around the world, a science expedition to view and study the night sky, or an experiment with magnetic fields. The result of these kinds of…
HEC Academy is one of 8 Massachusetts Green Team Program Grand Prize Winners
…this school year. The Team was hands-on in the community, maintaining the multi-city bike path, supporting food donation programs, and volunteering at multiple reuse organizations throughout the Pioneer Valley. The…
Hawlemont School to hold annual celebration Friday
…baby animals to raise. There is now a barn, chicken coop, greenhouse and plenty of gardens on the school grounds. Also, children learn about growing and preparing food, as part…