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Building on the Cultural and Background Knowledge of English Learners in Classrooms and Counseling Groups
…and thinking of ways to bring my students’ culture into my practice. Thank you for expanding my understanding and thinking around literacy and bringing experiences into my teaching.” –Course participant…
Using Books about Diversity and Social Justice with English Learners
In this fully virtual course, teachers and other school staff will be introduced to books on diversity and social justice issues that can be used effectively with English learners and…
Meeting the Needs of Visual-Spatial Learners
…will be able to understand the basis, research, and history of learning styles, the importance of offering differentiated instruction for all learners, and how to plan for and apply Visual-Spatial…
Mount Tom alternative learning program graduates 10 area high schoolers
…was no hope of graduating. The social factors were demanding and made it hard to concentrate on schoolwork. “It was hard to be yourself,” Levesque said. But then Levesque enrolled…
Playful Learning through Intentional Teaching
What has been the impact in kindergarten classrooms of good implementation of the following new initiatives and tools in Massachusetts? Elements of High Quality Kindergarten document Observational formative assessment Social…
Specialized Reading Approaches
…students with a theoretical framework, which may be used as a basis for understanding and contrasting the many different approaches being used to teach reading to the general student population,…
CES Profile – Albert Mussad, Sharing the Joy of Teaching
…support school districts. Each year, the Professional Development Department reviews input from teachers, administrators, and school districts in anticipation of planning out the following year’s programs. Understanding what districts need…
Lynan Cerruti joins Mount Tom Academy
…to get settled, and it helps to have Allyson [Mazzuchi] and Carole [Jackewich] as part of the team.” Recent weeks have seen the development of two new elective courses for…
Mass. Center for Civic Education promotes engaged citizenship among students
When history teacher Roger Desrosiers received a postcard from the Center for Civic Education in 1987 offering free classroom materials for the U.S. Constitution’s bicentennial, little did he know that…