Youth leaders from Northampton High School’s Youth for Equity and Action, a club sponsored by the Northampton Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), recently traveled to the Massachusetts State…
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Guided Discipline for Middle and High School Classrooms
This virtual professional learning series equips teachers to Organize classrooms to create optimal conditions for learning Implement a preventive, problem solving and restorative approach to discipline Respond to a wider…
Edna Olive
Edna Olive is the Associate Director at Engaging Schools. She has over 25 years of experience as a lassroom teacher, school administrator, coach, facilitator, consultant, and entrepreneur, with a focus…
School suspensions don’t work. It’s time for something better.
…meeting. “Cindy, what happened?” When it comes to student misbehavior, most schools have long practiced a basic system of crime and punishment, isolating the perceived “offender” through detention or suspension….
Rural School Aid awarded to local districts
…also chairman of the Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition, which lobbied for the new form of school aid to rural towns. “The Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition lood to continued partnering with…
DYS – Watching our Youth Succeed
…passage. As part of its efforts to prepare youth for educational and employment opportunities post-discharge, the Department has made graduation events a significant moment for youth and families to celebrate…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…he said. “Our schools are designed to homogenize people and give them basic skills,” Zhao said. “We’re still trying to produce sausages when what we need is bacon.” A native…
Two local school advocates tapped to lead state’s new Small and Rural Schools Committee
As rural schools and their challenges continue to become a more prominent topic at the state level, two local champions of Franklin County’s schools have been tapped to serve as…
Theory and Practice of Acquiring a Second Language
Required for License(s): Teacher of English as a second Language (PreK-6)(5-12) This course provides participants with an introduction to the field of second language acquisition (SLA) at different age and…
Supporting Access to Educational Technology
In 1987, schools and districts were not commonly thinking about educational technology as a means to level the playing field for student opportunity. But CES (then named HEC) Executive Director…