…South East Street, he wants to make sure that all elementary schools in Amherst are fully handicapped accessible and that problems, such as the open classroom model and lack of…
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School officials: Pandemic has lingering impact on students’ mental health
…Union 38 school districts. “First grade was interrupted; second grade, in our district, they would have been in a hybrid model and in other districts, remote. That kindergartner is now…
Curriculum and Assessment for Teachers
…achieve to high standards. Participants become familiar with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, focusing particularly on student work that reflects proficiency in those standards. Using a backward design model, teachers develop…
Liberation Through Literacy: An Indigenous Perspective on Reading
Participants will consider Indigenous communal learning through the Standard Model of Indigenous Learning (SMIL) and “Two-Eyed Seeing” with the goal of disrupting unintentional impacts of common approaches to reading education….
Teach Disability History: We Can and We Must
…sources. Inclusive lessons model Universal Design for Learning. The project is funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Topics range from Moral Reformers to the Disability…
Theory and Practice in Sheltering Instruction
…as delineated in the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) Model, including rationale, approach, and application to specific content areas; an analysis of considerations for ELLs and their families in the…
Gov. Baker agrees to major spending increase in his final budget
…The budget fully funds the ongoing implementation of the Student Opportunity Act school financing law and makes “record investments” in early education and child care, housing and homeownership, college financial…
Pearl Rhodes principal resigns, Bernardston principal takes over
…year, serving concurrently as early education coordinator for the district as Christine Maguire had done before her. Renee Keir, a teacher at Bernardston Elementary, will now double as early education…
Increased rural school aid ‘a tremendous win,’ administrators and legislators say
Months after Gov. Maura Healey’s initial budget proposal showed a moderate increase to rural school aid, that line item has nearly tripled in the approved budget, in what area administrators…
Woody Clift, Ph.D.
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,…