…of is, “School Local.” School Local Northampton is a campaign started by parents to encourage city families to send their children to the Northampton Public Schools. Organizers say it is…
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Pioneer to begin $400,000 computer replacement
NORTHFIELD – Work will begin this summer on a $400,000 computer equipment upgrade plan at the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s five schools. The district will borrow the money for…
TiE conference speaker urges over 300 teachers to utilize technology to reinvent education
…Elementary Schools Librarian Susan McQuaid said she found Zhao to be inspiring and affirming as “he encouraged teachers to be true to what we already know and why we became…
Collaborative for Educational Services announces the launch this fall of the Massachusetts Licensure Academy for K-12 Educators of Students with Moderate Disabilities
…MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), will be to support Massachusetts teachers currently working under a waiver, as well as licensed teachers seeking an additional license, toward licensure…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…for the Northampton schools, said he planned to share ideas he’d heard at the conference with teachers at his school. “It’s a challenge to educators at all levels,” he said….
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
TURNERS FALLS — National Poetry Month at Sheffield Elementary School usually centers around second-graders, who learn about the art form all year long. But this year, it morphed into a…
Interim GHS principal steps into permanent post
…popular principal — for whom teachers and faculty rallied for at a School Committee meeting last school year — Patenaude began the new school year in a fairly comfortable position…
Creating Your AI School Policy
…complete or near-complete draft of district-level policy for school committee consideration; and (b) a guidance statement about AI that district administrators can provide to schools and teachers. “It is not…
Heath Elementary’s new principal no stranger to town
…Heath Elementary School opened its doors, 20 years ago. His mother was one of the Heath Elementary School’s first teachers. After serving as assistant principal of the Mohawk Trail Regional…
Hinds and Blais say launch of Rural Schools Commission ‘a big win’ for region
…Education issued a report in 2018 on the fiscal conditions of rural schools across the state and found those schools pay more per student for teachers, aides and transportation. “There…