…day. He says a prayer for the district, the students, the upcoming state tests. He says a prayer for the second-grade teacher who had emergency back surgery and for the…
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Superintendents join to express sorrow and outrage
As leaders of local school districts and the Collaborative for Educational Services, we want to express our sorrow and outrage over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery,…
Pioneer Valley Excellence In Teaching Awards Presented To 113 Educators
SPRINGFIELD — School districts across the region participated in a rigorous process to select the winners of the 2020 Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Awards. The program, which is in…
Peruse those Privacy Policies
…deeper? via GIPHY The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) “is a unique collaborative of schools, districts, regional, territories and state agencies, policymakers, trade organizations and marketplace providers addressing real-world, adaptable,…
How one Massachusetts town turned around early reading program
…category. He missed his dad, who was still in the family’s home country in Central America, and he “could get into some behavior problems if you didn’t have the right…
Franklin County has two Schools of Recognition
…New Salem were named as Schools of Recognition in the “High Growth” category by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and their principals expressed pride in the acknowledgments…
Understanding “PDA”/Pervasive Drive for Autonomy: What Educators Need to Know with Dr. Alex Hirshberg
…recognized in the DSM-5 or as an IDEA-eligible disability category, this label is increasingly being applied to young students on the autism spectrum who display intense nervous system reactions to…
Practical physics: Turners Falls students analyze speeds on tricky village roads
…others were based on field work. In one part, the class rode in a van through the turns while monitoring an accelerometer, a device that measures acceleration across three axes….
Working for Special Education in Institutional Settings
Home E Search query for: blog edeval category evaluation district determined measures page 8 ( Page 6 ) Join SEIS – Where Teachers Thrive! SEIS (Special Education in Institutional Settings)…
Report: Massachusetts students perform best in the country — even when adjusted for demographics
…has double the poverty rate of Massachusetts. Mississippi also performs significantly lower in student performance measures. In an effort to address those factors and truly measure state education systems, the…