…School, Warwick Community School and Bernardston Elementary School, and also oversees Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Special Olympics program. Scott organized the inaugural Special Olympics Young Athletes event last spring,…
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Raising MCAS bar was a move in the wrong direction
…scores reported in September 2021 dropped from pre-pandemic levels. Does anyone truly find this as a surprise? Throughout the pandemic schools, teachers and administrators labored to shift their instructional practices,…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…for the Northampton schools, said he planned to share ideas he’d heard at the conference with teachers at his school. “It’s a challenge to educators at all levels,” he said….
In the Age of Trump, Civics Courses Make a Comeback
…students get no school credit in the first year — is the brainchild of Joseph Liberti, a longtime government and history teacher at the high school. And it is emblematic…
Edna Olive
Edna Olive is the Associate Director at Engaging Schools. She has over 25 years of experience as a lassroom teacher, school administrator, coach, facilitator, consultant, and entrepreneur, with a focus…
Franklin County schools, public and private, plan for COVID-19
School superintendents across Franklin County are doing like everyone else when it comes to COVID-19: trying not to overreact while doing everything they can to keep their students, teachers and…
My Turn: Our educational landscape: Charter schools’ negative impact in area
…schools, private schools, parochial schools, or home schooling. This means only 88 percent of the shrinking school population are attending regular (non-charter) public schools — a big reason our districts…
Safe and Healthy Schools Summit draws educators in discussion of how to manage race, polarizing conversations in schools
…school communities to make schools feel safe, according Mary Custard, who is the dean of students at Amherst Regional High School and served on the planning committee for the event….
Easthampton fourth-graders launch campaign against car idling
…of time people were idling,” said Judy Averill, the school’s principal. A parent approached Averill in early February concerned with the number of cars idling outside the school and how…
Catherine Glennon
…Woodrow Wilson foundation at Princeton University (2017). She has taught in very different school environments during her career – a suburban Catholic school, an urban charter school, a Vocational-Technical school,…