…and has significant experience teaching college level classes at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Greenfield Community College. She takes on the role from her predecessor, Barbara Finlayson, who recently…
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Science fun for Early Childhood CFCE families at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst
…You Don’t (learning about creatures in the wild who use camouflage). These early childhood centers are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, through the Coordinated Family…
Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) Hires New Executive Director
…Michigan University, as a professor of Secondary Literacy Education. He also holds a Massachusetts school superintendent license. He lives in Northampton with his wife, Jeanne Birdsall, the award-winning children’s book…
Leave no child’s school district behind
We are writing in regard to the Dec. 18 commentary by Marc Kenen, executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association. Kenen was responding to an opinion piece published…
Not country — but a great teacher: Kayla Werlin of Hadley wins Country Music Association Award as a top music instructor
…music teacher from Massachusetts to receive the award. “I’m very honored,” Werlin said during a recent call to her home in Hadley, where she — like so many other teachers…
US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner
…environmental and sustainability education. HEC Academy was one of only three schools within Massachusetts to receive this award. Students have been involved in planning much of the sustainability work over…
Erving event connects youth to local history
…together information about previous residents’ lives and pinpointed where they had lived. Through a program coordinated by the school’s library and a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, the classes worked with…
Comerford secures $1M for Franklin, Hampshire county projects
…of an amendment to an economic development bill passed by the Legislature earlier this month, includes $200,000 for the Massachusetts Food Trust Program administered by the Greenfield-based Franklin County Community…
Local Coalitions to Urban Outfitters: “Not far enough”
…indicates teens often underestimate the risks of drinking and abusing prescription drugs. Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in Hampshire County. Between 2007 and 2011, teen abuse of prescription…
Five Franklin county schools earn ‘Green Team’ awards
…School and Hawlemont Regional School in Charlemont were all honored by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for their efforts on the state’s “Green Team.” In total 62 schools were…