…Coordinated Family and Community Engagement grants would be coming to local school districts and nonprofits so such child development services and resources can continue to be provided to families with…
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2017 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Announced
…teacher at Amherst Regional Middle School, and recipient Catherine Dollard, a science teacher at Northampton High School who was a finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics &…
Guided Discipline for Middle and High School Classrooms
…array of student behavior Invite cooperation and de-fuse conflicts Provide targeted behavioral supports and interventions De-personalize challenging behaviors Guided Discipline, an Engaging Schools approach, empowers teachers to create safe, orderly,…
‘A place to call home’: South Hadley grads celebrate, reflect
SOUTH HADLEY — When Michael Zhou first came to South Hadley High School two years ago, he said that he initially felt he did not belong and missed his previous…
ESE votes to endorse practices for safe and supportive learning for LGBTQ students
…suicide prevention related to LGBTQ students in their required training for school personnel. 3. Schools are encouraged to offer school-based groups for LGBTQ and heterosexual students. 4. Schools are encouraged…
Llama Maynard
…school. In addition to her strong roots in K-12 science education, she brings expertise to support schools that are implementing standards-based grading, project-based learning, and whole-school initiatives in instruction and…
No more homework? Greenfield elementary schools rethink approach
…to have the families engaged and participating in the student learning, to reinforce what’s happening at school,” Toomey said. “We wanted to take the pressure and angst off of schoolwork…
Todd Gazda
…of School Administrators, the New England Association of School Superintendents, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and M.A.S.S. Prior to pursuing his career in education, in 1995, he received…
Gazda named director of region’s educational resource center
…a law degree in the mid 1990s. But the Middlefield native later became a social studies and English teacher at Gateway Regional Middle School in Huntington and then the school’s…
Franklin County has two Schools of Recognition
Two Franklin County schools are among the 67 recognized by the state for strong MCAS achievement or for exceeding their performance targets. Whately Elementary School and Swift River School in…