…responsible for creating a culture of positivity and kindness.” “Our School Council will focus their efforts on this climate initiative as well as a district-wide initiative around meeting the needs…
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Creating a Storybook Journey to Enhance Our STEM Curriculum
…a STEM focus designed to inspire children’s imaginations and fuel their inquiry, experiments, and hypotheses. This will be a hands-on session where participants will learn about and create their own…
Catherine Brooks
Catherine Brooks has extensive experience with leading evaluation projects; designing, administering, and analyzing evaluation plans; conducting participant surveys, telephone interviews, and focus groups; analyzing primary and secondary data, and summarizing…
Emerging America shares stories of advocacy
…engagement projects. Rich Cairn, Director of Emerging America at CES, began his career with the National Youth Leadership Council in Minnesota focused on service learning, and it was this work…
Using Books about Diversity and Social Justice with English Learners
…course will involve both large group and breakout room discussions, creative and problem-solving activities, and individual work responding to videos and articles. The course will have an explicitly anti-oppressive focus,…
Health care systems, including Cooley Dickinson, turn to a ‘new’ old medicine: healthy food
A few times a week, Katie Macomber, medical home care coordinator at Amherst Pediatrics, writes a “prescription” for patients and their families. Macomber is not a doctor, and the prescription…
José Lugo
…state tribes) and individuals for consultation, technical assistance, and curriculum development. His area of focus is Native and Indigenous wellness and educational practices. José’s inclusion and advocacy with indigenous communities…
At state budget hearing at GCC, school officials share unique challenges faced by rural districts
GREENFIELD — At the Joint Committee on Ways and Means’ fiscal year 2025 state budget hearing on Friday, the focus was on statewide education and local aid. At the regional…
Emerging America: Immigration Issues in Perspective for Diverse Learners
…overview knowledge of US immigrant history, and focus on a particular topic of interest Consider interdisciplinary connections related to immigration, from the narrative arc of the immigrant journey to the…
America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond – Teaching Human Rights Today
…classroom discussion and student analysis of controversial topics and of bias. Trace links throughout U.S. and World History, Civics and Government, with a particular focus on Spanish language and culture…