…couldn’t be more thrilled with this grant award and the opportunities it will bring to the young women in our schools to cultivate their ideas, identity and learn to speak…
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Dean Tech Students Learn High-Tech Skills by Moving Robots
…with the Holyoke Public Schools in securing grant funding for the CONNECTIONS program as well as the robotics laboratory. According to Dean CONNECTIONS program director, Stacey Funston, CONNECTIONS started about…
Special Education Team Leader Institute completes first program year with gathering in Northampton
…experience,” said Marianne Lockwood, a teacher with the Northampton Public Schools, “We’ve created a whole network and we talk all the time about practice. It has lit a fire in…
Northampton students build computers in new digital literacy program
…students had built themselves. As part of a new technology education initiative in Northampton elementary schools, third-graders are building simple computers in small groups and then playing a game on…
Franklin Tech to open nursing simulation lab next school year
…a practical nursing certification through Greenfield Community College, Martin said. The discussions are in early phases, and the two schools do not yet have a date for starting the program….
Winter 2013 Special Olympics
…from Granby, Northampton, Ware and South Hadley schools taking part in the four-town Special Olympics this year. Founder and director of the event is Michael Topor, an adaptive physical education…
CES Workforce Programs lead to multiple opportunities
In the spring of 2020, while the world was in lockdown and schools remote, CES Director of Workforce Programs Matt Rigney thought about ways to continue assisting students as part…
Urban legislators don’t get the struggle to fund large, rural bus routes
…to balance the state budget, leaving regional districts scrambling to cut money from supplies, training and staff mid-year to compensate. The Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools has given up on…
Mahar students learn a new way to communicate: sign language
…communicate, Kirsten Spencer went on to get her degree in sign language interpretation, and interpreted for the deaf at hospitals, schools and businesses for 25 years. She taught Cadence, as…
Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for December and January
…2023. You will find Julia in three of our region’s schools – CSD, DSD, and MTU. As a special education teacher, Julia can be found teaching alongside general education teachers…