…Massachusetts. An experienced staff developer, he served in that role in Cambridge, MA and has spoken on multicultural schools, performance-based assessment, restructuring rural schools, and co-facilitated the Inclusive Practices Network…
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Community Foundation Grants given
…Technical school districts, as well as Greenfield schools, develop more “trauma-informed” cultures. An outcome will be to apply for an implementation grant to provide staff training and onsite clinical support….
What’s so dangerous about critical thinking?
…an environment where every student and staff member feels safe, supported, and free to be themselves as a proud member of their race, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, or gender identity….
Transforming Education for Social Justice Conference: Bridging, Belonging & Civic Engagement
…in our schools as we seek to find ways for all students and staff to feel a sense of true belonging. We focus on ways to find shared values, create…
Principal leaving Discovery School at Four Corners
…the staff as well as the families here.” Superintendent Jordana Harper said Nancy Putnam, a longtime Greenfield principal and the district’s most senior elementary principal, has agreed to fill in…
Bridging to Belonging: Working with Polarization in Schools PLC
…for all students and staff to feel a sense of belonging. We will focus on ways to find shared values, create connections through stories, and bridge across different identities, and…
Jillayne Flanders
…at Goshen Center School. During her years at Plains School, with the expert guidance of her amazing faculty and staff, she became a passionate advocate for Early Childhood Education, and…
Early childhood educator Barbara Black named Gazette’s “Person of the Year”
…chosen by a selection committee made up of United Way of Hampshire County staff and community members. Along with the award comes a $500 prize, half of which will be…
For Amherst superintendent, building plan must address two schools
…needs of Wildwood Elementary School’s teachers, staff and students are addressed in any building project completed between fall 2025 and 2027. Superintendent Michael Morris told the Amherst School Committee earlier…
School officials: Pandemic has lingering impact on students’ mental health
…this school year would be ‘normal,’ and it’s not,” said Greenfield School Department Superintendent Christine DeBarge. “We’re dealing with the outcome of all of the things that students and staff…