…on June 16th at the Paramount Center. The motivation for the investment in the arts came about because, as Peter Forbes, the Commissioner of the Department of Youth Services said,…
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Youth Policy and Advocacy Summit 2025
The SPIFFY Coalition and the Communities That Care Coalition co-organized a “Youth Policy and Advocacy Skills Summit” on June 14th, from 10AM-3PM at the Smith College Conference Center. The Summit…
David L. Hudson Jr.
…Rights in Education and a First Amendment Fellow for the Freedom Forum Institute. For 17 years, he was an attorney and scholar at the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tennessee….
Jeanne Tuthill
…and licensed Speech-Language Pathologist since 1998, and joined the CES Center for Assistive Technology and Training as an assistive technology specialist in 2008. She has presented on a variety of…
AMHERST REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Grads urged to ‘change the world’
…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…
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….