At first glance, the state’s much delayed fiscal 2020 budget — more appropriately a $43.1 billion spending blueprint for the next 12 months — appears to have been a win…
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‘Hour of Code’ engages Pioneer Valley students
…importance of computing — particularly among a young audience. At first, Levesque thought the activity would be boring and too difficult. But she was pleasantly surprised. “Just the word ‘coding’…
Andy Craver follows Vice principal’s uplifting example in Turners Falls
…the nominations for the third annual Uplift award, Craver was described as “unfailingly positive, polite, empathetic, patient, accepting and kind – in other words, a mensch – a Yiddish word…
Last day for Pearl Rhodes brings joy, sadness: Institution closing for final time
…lingering staff all repeated the same word: “sad.” As the smallest school in the district, Pearl Rhodes’ potential closure was a topic of discussion for several years. School officials said…
Literacy + Social Emotional + One-on-One Time…in just 10 minutes!
…emotional development. The best news is that it doesn’t take much time but the rewards are tremendous. Essentially, storytelling-story acting involves taking dictation of a story from one child each…
Developing Academic Language in Science and Technology/Engineering
…academic language. Participants will investigate the MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework; WIDA’s discourse, sentence and word/phrase levels of academic language; oral and written discourse; and content and language objectives. Participants…
400 Attend Annual DYS Art Showcase
…works of art were on display and available for purchase with proceeds supporting local youth artists. Additionally, 15 youth presented original performances including singing, spoken word poetry, drumming, dancing, and…
Area schools turn to Google’s online software solutions
…for word processing, storage, presentations and other functions. The students in Michele Andrews’ fifth grade class at R.K. Finn Ryan Road School quickly found the waffle on their screens and…
Resources for Social Justice in Education Work
…“The N-word in the Classroom,” and is a reflection of the work she’s been doing in classrooms over the last few years. We recommend a book written by our local…
Department of Youth Services Guiding Principles awards for November
…teachers to consider bettering their teaching methodology by using strategies such as vocabulary building activities and word walls. Marianne is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to incentivizing our…