In this 1-day workshop, educators of English Learners and students with IEPs will consider the eight skills writers need to communicate personal meaning (e.g., select a genre and employ its…
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Practical physics: Turners Falls students analyze speeds on tricky village roads
TURNERS FALLS — The newest advisors to the Montague Selectboard may be a group of high school students. As the culminating project for the semester, the Turners Falls High School…
‘We don’t come with the house’ FCTS students built Erving home with help from GSB Foundation
ERVING – Dozens of Franklin County Technical School students huddled together for a photograph around 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, but it was no ordinary school photo. They stood in front…
Local schools to form rural association
…an official name. Rural school districts are those with fewer than 1,000 students, or which serve towns with fewer than 10 students per square mile. Last month, Buoniconti invited several…
Driving Through Mud: How Rural Mass. Schools Are Coping With Rising Transportation Costs
…stay out of the aisles. Muddy roads are one of many issues that school leaders face when trying to get their students to and from class in this district’s rugged…
What’s the Real Message? – Making Sense of the Challenging Behaviors We See Every Day
Do you work with students labeled as “difficult”, “challenging”, or “unmotivated”? Whether a result of trauma, depression, anxiety, or other issues, those labeled the most challenging are full of promise,…
New Professional Learning Communities coming this fall to CES
…Co-planning and co-teaching; Common Core State Standards; PARCC testing; and Working with struggling learners. Fiona is a Teacher/Librarian at Pioneer Valley Regional Schools, where in addition to working with students…
Eight athletes show their skills at Pioneer Special Olympics
BERNARDSTON, MA — Eight students hurried around the Bernardston Elementary School gymnasium, throwing bean bags, crawling through plastic tunnels and wheeling around on scooters. With upbeat music playing, the students’…
Distinguished UMass Historian Encourages HEC Academy Graduates to Pursue their Dreams
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Professor John Bracey Jr., Chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, encouraged the seven seniors graduating today from HEC…
Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held in Person
…MA., and how educators together with other practitioners can be proactive in creating therapeutic classroom spaces where students feel safe, can engage in authentic learning, explore their identities, talents, skills,…