Laurel Peltier, Ed.D. is a Curriculum and Instruction Specialist in Special Education at the Collaborative for Educational Services. Her work focuses on special education leaders and leadership, and particularly on facilitating the IEP team process with people inside of schools and in community settings who support kids who have disabilities. We recently asked Laurel whether at this time, the role of special education team leader is more important than ever. She responded, “Special education funding has been an issue for as long as I have been in the field of education, and while...
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Oct
2017
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Follansbee announces retirement as Easthampton school superintendent
ASTHAMPTON — After 26 years working in Easthampton schools, Superintendent Nancy Follansbee will retire at the end of the school year, in June 2018. In response to Gazette inquiries, Follansbee sent a one-sentence reply saying she would announce her retirement on...
Oct
2017
24
Pioneer begins looking outside the box with supt. search
NORTHFIELD — In their first meeting to discuss replacing Superintendent Ruth Miller, Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Superintendent Search Committee decided to scope out the possibility of sharing administrators with another school district. The search...
Oct
2017
18
Belchertown administrator to become South Hadley middle school principal
SOUTH HADLEY -- The superintendent of schools has chosen Douglas Daponde, assistant principal at Belchertown High School, to be principal at Michael E. Smith Middle School effective Nov. 6. Daponde succeeds Paul Plummer, whose death earlier this year created the...
Oct
2017
15
Franklin Tech, Mahar receive state Capital Skills Grants
Your parent’s shop class at the Franklin Technical School will soon get a makeover. With a majority of the welding equipment dating back to the 1950s and ’60s, a $495,000 grant from the state will help the tech school to modernize its shop classes. “It was an honor...
Oct
2017
15
Hands-on science for Sunderland children
SUNDERLAND — When 11-year-old Sunderland Elementary School Student Tenzin Phelgay grows up, he wants to design a rocket capable of going to Mars. For now, he’s building marble rollercoasters in the Swampfield Drive school’s gymnasium as part of “Thinking Buddies,”...
Oct
2017
15
Amherst-Pelham school district names Morris superintendent
AMHERST — Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools now has a permanent superintendent, though he’s by no means new. In a unanimous vote, the Union 26 and Regional school committees Tuesday evening appointed Michael Morris, who has been serving as interim superintendent...
Oct
2017
13
North Berkshire Academy prepares for success in the Berkshires
North Adams, MA -- Deciding on a perfect site for the new special education public day school at the Armory Building in North Adams was only the beginning. North Berkshire Academy Director Jodi Drury is now immersed in permits and applications, furniture and...
Oct
2017
3
Afterschool programs work Let’s fund services with huge dividends for children and families
Each year, thousands of working Massachusetts families rely on afterschool programs to provide a safe, supervised haven for their children. But there are thousands more children sitting on wait lists for affordable, quality programs. Parents know afterschool...
Sep
2017
21
Editorial: Local educators join national effort to teach critical news literacy skills
In an age where “information” is available at dizzying speeds and in seemingly endless quantities, it is essential to teach consumers the skills they need to discern what is fair, accurate and reliable. Thankfully, local educators are joining their colleagues...
Sep
2017
21
Interim GHS principal steps into permanent post
GREENFIELD — As she left college, Karin Patenaude wondered what to do with an English degree. She would try the field of law, working as a paralegal. Unfulfilled, she went back to school to get a degree so that she could become a teacher. Teaching high school...
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