…Early Intervention working directly with children with a variety of disabilities and found her love of working with this population. She also brings a valuable parent perspective through her hands-on…
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Jan Caswell
Jan Caswell is a deafness consultant in various categories, from education to employment, counseling to interpreting, human services from early intervention to eldercare, for more than four decades. She developed…
Arlene Spooner
Arlene Spooner, PT, has worked for over 30 years in Early Intervention as a physical therapist. She has also provided PT services in public schools, and in outpatient pediatrics in…
Massachusetts House restores $17.5 million for kindergarten expansion grants to state budget
…said the fund was being used by communities for years after they added kindergarten to maintain it – which is not why the fund was created. Early education advocates and…
Nancy L. Murray
…She has researched the impact of early learning on reading comprehension for students with ASD. Nancy has presented throughout Massachusetts, and states as far as Seattle, on topics such as…
New Whately Elementary principal greets kids for first day of school
…on Wednesday. Today is the first day of the school’s 2018-19 academic calendar, but new Principal Kristina Kirton scheduled a New Year’s Eve ice cream social a day early so…
In the big-kids school: Preschoolers welcomed into Sanderson Academy
…least not for the children,” remarked early education coordinator Kate Dwyer. This week, about 40 children between the ages of 3 and 5 will be coming to school at Sanderson,…
Frontier Regional and Union 38 superintendent to retire
…at the end of June. Barrett announced her plans to the Frontier Regional School Committee during its meeting Tuesday night. She said she wanted to inform the committee as early…
$1M to fight youth opioid addiction
…adults are successful on their path to recovery. It’s still early to define how success of the grant will be measured, but McLaughlin offered that if there are increases in…
Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals
This short workshop empowers Special Education teachers to integrate disability history and foster supportive attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing them with basic historical knowledge and…