…strategies to navigate systems that do not always support and see them. Joining together in partnerships is how we create meaningful and impactful programming for our students within DYS.” Congratulations…
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DYS Education Initiative wins nationwide BreakFree competition
…across the country, providing the resources, training, and networks to make school relevant and meaningful. The competitions sponsored by BreakFree provide engaging, project-based activities for youth, and teachers leverage these…
Massachusetts DYS Students Win National BreakFree Competitions
…to make school relevant and meaningful. The competitions sponsored by BreakFree provide engaging activities for youth, and teachers leverage these interdisciplinary resources to teach across content areas so that students…
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…
Sparsity Aid for rural schools? Mohawk mulls rural school assoc.
…Trail Regional School on March 23 to discuss forming a Massachusetts Rural Schools Association. The association is to address issues that school systems in densely populated regions don’t face. Superintendent…
Urban legislators don’t get the struggle to fund large, rural bus routes
…to form these more fiscally and academically sensible regional school systems in the 1960s, the state promised to pay for busing. But that promise has rarely been kept, and the…
Lexi Polokoff, MPPA
…Self-Directed Learning for Teens. Alexis is a systems thinker and is passionate about making lasting and meaningful changes so that young people can “grow to be resilient people capable of…
Driving Through Mud: How Rural Mass. Schools Are Coping With Rising Transportation Costs
…adds that that budgetary pinch has gotten tighter over the last few years. This district, like many other rural school systems, have been declining in enrollment. Between 2008 and 2017,…
For new school head, leadership comes from experience
…a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army National Guard, where he said he received plenty of practice managing complicated systems, exercising everything from time management skills to navigating crisis situations….
Now available: Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation
…and the government and other funders who support and oversee these systems. The report offers recommendations to build a workforce that is unified by the foundation of the science of…