…and vocational goals and excels in creating plans for them to achieve these goals. She has helped numerous young people successfully graduate from High School, enroll in college courses and…
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Educational Technology for Administrators
Required for License(s): Administrative Leadership This course introduces administrators to the multi-faceted role of technology in education. The use of technology as a change agent in schools is explored as…
As Massachusetts charter schools enroll more students with disabilities, who exactly are they serving?
…obtained from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shows that charter and district schools are not necessarily educating the same types of students with disabilities. Children with the…
Easthampton fourth-graders launch campaign against car idling
EASTHAMPTON — In the afternoons, parents line their cars in front of Maple Elementary School to pick up their children. To find out how much pollution idling cars are spewing…
Jan Hollenbeck
…related service providers, teachers, families, and others to support and facilitate the success of children in educational settings (www.otpartnership.com). Dr. Hollenbeck is a Special Education Administrator responsible for related services,…
Maggie Dennis-Wurm, CSUN, FCSN, STCC
…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…
U.S. education policy: Federal overreach or reaching for the wrong things?
Federal overreach in education is under attack from multiple quarters and will likely be diminished in any overhaul of the No Child Left Behind Act, the current law governing national…
Massachusetts Senate plans to craft charter school reform bill as ballot question looms
…schools, because after all, the whole point is that every child in Massachusetts should get a quality education,” Rosenberg said. “And so charter schools is only one group of students.”…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…said, “but with forcing people to acquire the same skills.” Instead, Zhao said, schools should be using new technology to encourage students to tap their inner creativity. “Every child should…
Let them eat kale: Belchertown students plant, harvest the vegetable for cafeteria
…have planted, harvested and then get to eat the food in the cafeteria,” Clark said. “Today’s child does not know where food comes from, so this is a huge step.”…