As Director of the Just Schools Project, Mel Motel works with school administrators, staff, and students to use school-wide restorative practices as a way of addressing harmful behavior without relying…
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Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values: Film Screening and Discussion
…in their communities, and in schools. Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values (2024) is a companion to Reflecting on Anti-Bias Education in Action: The Early Years (2021), which received the Silver Prize…
Chrissy D’Agostino
…treatments. Chrissy currently partners with local schools and families as an educational consultant and parent coach, and also works at The Montessori School of Northampton as an inclusion specialist. She…
State’s new rural policy commission meets in Greenfield
…on economic development, housing, infrastructure and services as well as key human-dimension issues like workforce, declining population and schools in communities with fewer than 500 residents per square mile. The…
Mary Beth O’Connor
…in the Northampton Public Schools where she has been supporting developing readers since 2010. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from the Pennsylvania State University and a M. Ed…
Art PLC
…even districts specializing in the subject. This PLC will be a place for Art educators across schools and districts to share in problems of practice, develop ideas, and learn together…
HEC Academy Math teacher Bessette receives awards at Northampton Special Education Parents’ Advisory Council awards night
…they are capable, and have demonstrated the need for more intensive academic, social and emotional supports than most public schools can provide. To learn more about HEC Academy, click here….
Smith Academy launches sign language class
…requirement. The pilot program has become popular among students at the school, which is one of the few high schools in the area to offer ASL as a classroom subject….
Franklin Tech students take agriculture know-how to national convention
…throughout his four years of high school, said what students brought to nationals was the highest level of investment he’s ever seen from Franklin Tech’s FFA members. The school’s engagement…
Mount Tom Academy alternative learning explored in Gazette article
…article in the Gazette. Mount Tom partners with districts and students graduate from their sending schools. Mount Tom is located at Holyoke Community College. Mount Tom Academy tuition has not…