…school, we’re going to be a play school,” he said. Since that time the school has done at least one play every spring, with Prasol trying to pick modern comedies…
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Students Gain Experience Via New CES Internship Program
Thirty area high school students found spring and summer employment through a newly opened summer internship program this past year. Developed by CES’s Matt Rigney, Alternative Youth Programs Director, and…
State education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’
…its peak of 29% in the spring of 2022. Tutwiler has long argued that absenteeism is often driven by the “unmet needs” of students and their families, including stable housing. And indeed,…
Mass Cultural Council Funds Artist in Residence Working with the DYS Education Initiative
Artist in residence, Jenny Herzog, a singer, tap dancer, teacher, and director, will be working with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) DYS Education Initiative this spring. The residency is…
Teaching about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement Outside the South
Few books about the Civil Rights Movement focus on examples from outside the South. Especially during January and February and in the spring, many teachers share books about Jim Crow…
Winter 2013 Special Olympics
…A fall program of soccer takes place in Granby, and a spring track-and-field program meets in Northampton. Diane Rivard, of Ware, watched as granddaughter Brittany handled a basketball. “She’s got…
The classroom hits the virtual road
EASTHAMPTON — To guide her students as they studied ancient Greece and Rome this spring, sixth-grade teacher Judith Breier took a different approach from the traditional textbook lesson. On June…
Caps and gowns to make a statement at Turners Falls
…abruptness of the decision, students will be allowed to choose between blue or white for this spring’s graduation. Heather Katsoulis, Mike Langknecht, Thomasina Hall, William Tomb and Jennifer Lively were…
Let them eat kale: Belchertown students plant, harvest the vegetable for cafeteria
…the spring — and that will be served up in the cafeteria on Wednesday as kale chips. Almost 80 first- and second-graders gathered in the vegetable garden outside of the…
G-M schools have higher enrollment
…an increase of 33 from last spring’s 2016-2017 enrollment. Last year, the district had 951 total students enrolled, and the previous year they had 947. From 2012 to 2015 the…