…is at the heart of the charter issue. Proponents say increasing access to charter schools is about allowing families to have options for where and how their children receive their…
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Mental health challenges for students topic of summit
…virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was co-sponsored by the Collaborative for Educational Services, SPIFFY and Communities that Care coalitions, and the Quaboag Hills Substance Use Alliance. “How…
The 10th Annual Safe & Healthy School Summit
…of Franklin County/North Quabbin and Hampshire County hosted the 10th Annual Safe and Healthy School Summit at Greenfield Community College. The Summit’s theme, “Empowering Belonging, Connection, & Learning,” emphasized a…
Occupational Therapy Center develops new strategies
…older couple raising their grandchild had been homeschooling due to high COVID risk factors, and weren’t comfortable coming to the office. Noel consults with them virtually once a month. She…
Starting Strong Summit convenes early childhood leaders and stakeholders from across the Commonwealth
…also heard from Kate Roper, the Assistant Director for Early Childhood Services in the bureau of Family Health and Nutrition at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, who gave an…
CROSS-CULTURAL BONDS Inside a French foreign exchange program at Hampshire Regional High School
…stayed with Hampshire Regional host families and shadowed students in the school before going home on Sunday. After the students spent some time writing their ideas on white boards, Reynolds…
Early childhood educator Barbara Black named Gazette’s “Person of the Year”
…education is all about. “It’s really being part of the world that wants to keep letting children play, because that’s how they learn,” said Black, the early childhood coordinator for…
Mobile markets make local food accessible
…— a small farmers market packed up in a van and driven around to communities. Caitlin Marquis, of the nonprofit Healthy Hampshire, which is supporting the new Amherst Mobile Market,…
For the Hampshire County Food Policy Council (HCFPC), community leadership is at the heart of their work.
…Cooley Dickinson Health Care, the Collaborative for Educational Services/Healthy Hampshire, Hilltown Community Health Center, and Hilltown Community Development. Charter community members of the HCFPC are excited about entering the next…
Local author shows how memory is critical to teaching struggling learners
…Educational Services, says the book is unique in fusing brain-and-learning principles with a perspective on learning as a social and cultural process. “There are internal (memory) and external (cultural) factors…