…to administer ‘competency tests,’ has set off a firestorm of concern among educators and parents — who believe that the priority must continue to be meeting the social, emotional and…
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Larry Dieringer
…and systemic reform. He began his career as a secondary school social studies teacher and youth wilderness program director and has an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education….
Mohawk to add instruction on Native American history, issues
BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School District is planning to incorporate more Native American instruction in its history and social studies courses. There are two main reasons for this renewed…
It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using?
Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings. But social media apps are appendages…
When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.
…out to a social worker who’d worked with his family in the past. But more than a month after the coronavirus threat forced the New Paradigm Loving Academy in Detroit…
Jes Karr
Jes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker honored to serve as an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant with CES. Jes has over a decade of experience working with and advocating…
The election challenge: A race to the White House with this many turns has teachers scrambling
Social studies teacher Scott Mahar had the perfect election-related lesson plan sketched out for his high school students — a scavenger hunt in which they would match an issue with…
Develop a Mystery for Your Own Classroom – History’s Mysteries Summer Institute
This five-day online workshop will deepen teacher skills with integrating social studies, language arts, and inquiry in remote and in-person learning using History’s Mysteries: Historical Inquiry for Elementary Classrooms, the…
Mount Tom alternative learning program graduates 10 area high schoolers
…at Mount Tom Academy, an alternative learning program run by the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, and her outlook changed. Now Levesque plans on attending Holyoke Community College for…
Pols take their cue from students
…an opportunity to just over a dozen students to exchange ideas about political and social issues with their local and state elected officials. “It’s the last day of my first…