…located in Northampton, for students between 14 and 21, honored eleven students this year, from Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden County sending school districts. HEC Academy offers a small-school learning environment…
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Gov. Charlie Baker signs bilingual education bill into law
…The new law allows schools to develop new approaches for teaching students who are learning English, like dual language education, a program that allows students to maintain their first language…
Hold On Tight, It May Be A Bumpy Ride!
Do you work with any students who are labeled as “difficult”, “challenging”, “unpredictable” or “unmotivated”? Often these students sit in our classrooms struggling with burdens beyond belief. Whether it is…
Massachusetts statewide school mask order coming
…of students and staff have been vaccinated against COVID-19 would be able to lift the mask requirement, for vaccinated individuals only. The mandate will apply to students age 5 and up, and…
Expressing What Matters to Youth in the DYS Program
…Services (DYS), the students showed what mattered to them in paintings, sculptures, videos, song and dance. The Massachusetts program has had a long commitment to incorporating the arts into youth…
CES continues its strong Partnership with BreakFree Education
…they need to make school relevant and meaningful. DYS youth find these learning activities engaging and teachers leverage these interdisciplinary resources to teach across content areas so that students can…
Rural School Aid awarded to local districts
…these leaders as we strive to ensure quality education for our rural students.” School districts that qualify for Rural School Aid have fewer than 21 students per square mile in…
Four Corners student fundraiser helps ailing children
…group of students in the Four Corners Student Council went with an issue they said they could all relate. “We’re not just helping people,” Jayden Daiqneault, 10, said. “We’re saving…
Continuing Earl McGraw’s Legacy in Turners Falls
…which is given to students and staff who exemplify McGraw’s principles. The school community nominates students and staff. McGraw’s principles were treating everyone with respect and without judgment, seeing someone…
Andy Craver follows Vice principal’s uplifting example in Turners Falls
Assistant principals, of necessity, are often the high school disciplinarians, which doesn’t exactly endear them to their students. So the late Earl McGraw, the former Turners Falls High School assistant…