Woody Clift has over twenty years’ experience in collaborating with stakeholders across disciplines towards improving educational, social, emotional, and life outcomes for youth placed at risk. Early in his career,…
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With prospect of more charter schools, rural educators see greater risk
…districts can be defined as those with fewer than 1,000 students, or which serve towns with fewer than 10 students per square mile, according to the National Center for Education…
Brian Whitehouse
…Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Languages and Education from Marlboro College, and his M.Ed. in Alternative Education from Lock Haven University. His extensive classroom experience encompasses work in foreign…
Carmelo Chiello
Carmelo has taught several courses with CES since 2013, including ESL licensure courses, and both the traditional and vocational education Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) courses required by DESE. Over the…
Mohawk gets planning grant for agricultural program
…at the Mohawk Trail Regional School. School officials hope that families and residents from Mohawk member towns will provide input that may help with developing this new educational plan. Recently,…
Amherst Regional superintendent to serve on statewide Racial Imbalance Advisory Council
…advise the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the education commissioner “on matters pertinent to the integration of students in our public schools and improved student achievement for all…
Where Now?
…topics, and transitioning to snack, lunch, recess, specials…and home again. Within our classrooms and buildings we can be in perpetual transition – new processes, examining and implementing new techniques and…
Rural schools develop state aid proposal
…a draft proposal that seeks more Chapter 70 state aid for rural schools with the highest enrollment declines, the lowest per capita income and flat-level state aid to education. The…
Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says
…comes from nonfederal sources, according to the Education Department. The resulting imbalance renders “the education available to millions of American public school students profoundly unequal,” the commission said. For instance,…
Buckland-Shelburne Elementary climbs from a ‘lowest-’ to a ‘highest-performing’ school
SHELBURNE FALLS, MA — In 2011, the Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School MCAS scores caused the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to declare BSE a “Level 3” school, which meant…