…The ongoing goal has been to deepen the program’s collective understanding of how racial trauma impacts youth in the care and custody of DYS, and how educators and practitioners can…
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Sheffield Elementary School counselor honored with Grinspoon award
…as a youth counselor for nearly four decades, White has seen the social changes — how poverty can erode families and neighborhoods; how each new wave of addictive drugs disrupts…
It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks
…and community; you hope to show it to your children and grandchildren someday. A yearbook isn’t supposed to be divisive. So how to commemorate a school year that coincided with…
Alicia Lopez
…in the Western Mass. Writing Project as Co-director of the Summer Institute and Teacher Consultant. Alicia lives in Amherst with her husband and three children, ages 14, 12, and 10….
Local author shows how memory is critical to teaching struggling learners
…amount of information presented that he had little background to understand. This student had also been trained in his own culture?s norms in which it is considered rude for children…
A different kind of meals on wheels: Franklin County Technical School delivers food to students
…prepared, healthy meals are delivered to Franklin Tech students and children in other districts. Bouchard explained she has tried to leverage Franklin Tech’s National School Lunch Program financial reimbursement to…
Leave no child’s school district behind
…— as Kenen’s commentary so clearly demonstrates — about the value, impact, funding, and accountability of charter schools. Most importantly, we said nothing to suggest that we were not putting…
Gwendolyn VanSant
…includes her own experience within her cultural identities and those of her children representing various dimensions of diversity (e.g. Type 1 Diabetes, Autism, LGBTQ, & biracial.)Gwendolyn VanSant, diversity leader and…
Easthampton Students Dig Into Pepin School History
…brand new building, Mountain View School, the following fall. They wanted to record important school and town history before the buildings were abandoned and the sounds of children playing at…
Erving event connects youth to local history
…are far different than her own. The woman lived in Erving long ago, and had a husband, children and connections to the mills that used to provide most of the…