…said, recallinghow his granddaughter succeeded in dealing with the challenge each approaching wave presented. Keiter was walking into the Mullins Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday to…
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Gill-Montague school district gears up for another school year
TURNERS FALLS, MA — Expanding critical thinking and technology skills will be front and center in the Gill-Montague Regional School District as it enters the new school year, according to…
Last day for Pearl Rhodes brings joy, sadness: Institution closing for final time
…picking up her second-grade daughter, Kaylee, and her friend, Jakayla. The school opened in 1951 as Leyden Center School and was renamed in 1992 in honor of longtime principal Pearl…
Combined school district management proposed
…Tari Thomas, who is superintendent for the Orange Elementary, Ralph C. Mahar Regional and Petersham Center school districts. She suggests that her districts join with Pioneer Valley Regional School District…
Social-Emotional Development: What’s happening in districts?
By Kay Lisseck, MKEA Regional Coordinator, Pioneer Valley Region With a focus on social-emotional learning, the latest annual report from the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy points to…
Buckland-Shelburne Elementary climbs from a ‘lowest-’ to a ‘highest-performing’ school
…School Assistance Center) and brought in a new principal, Joanne Giguere. This year — based on the Buckland-Shelburne school’s 2014 MCAS results — BSE has exceeded all its target goals….
Les Edinson
Les Edinson is the support facilitator for the Pioneer Valley District and School Assistance Center (DSAC) and the Monitoring Visit Site Visit Team Leader for Schoolworks. He is an experienced…
Impact of (gen)AI: Wednesday Webinar Series
Join the AI Team from CES’ Center for Emerging Educational Practice to explore important (and sometimes thorny) issues surrounding generative AI and its impact on our students, schools and communities….
Melissa Zeitz receives government’s highest honor for teaching mathematics or science in grades K-12.
…the curriculum. Presidential Award winners from across the country gathered in D.C. last week for three days of professional development, a reception and dinner at the John F. Kennedy Center…
New Resource on AI Literacy for Educators
…It is baked into the devices and apps they use, and is increasingly used in nearly every system they will encounter in their lives, from health care to banking,” the…