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2016 Parent Guide Now Available for Local Parents
Raising Healthy Children, the 2016 edition of an annual Parent Guide published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, is now available in print and online. The Guide offers articles and resources…
Thank you, Heather!
The SPIFFY Coalition has big news: Heather Warner, SPIFFY Manager, has transitioned into a NEW role as the Hampshire-Franklin Tobacco Free Community Partnership Coordinator. We are so grateful for 15…
Scholar and Common Core critic Yong Zhao says schools need to rethink use of classroom technology
…constraining technology” in the classroom, Zhao said, when it should be used to broaden the curriculum. While policy makers and business leaders frequently point to higher test scores of students…
Staff shortages ‘adding a layer of stress’ at area school districts
…in their buildings this year. District leaders in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region spoke to a need in particular for support staff, custodial and cafeteria workers, and substitute…
Gateway’s ‘blizzard bags’ cut makeup days in sunny June
…New Hampshire. The result of those efforts is that Gateway students will only have to make up three of the eight snow days the district had this year. For Gateway…
Barbara Cheney – CES Profile
…Hampshire Regional School District ESL program for five years. When Matt contacted Barbara about joining Mount Tom Academy in 2014, she signed on immediately. The students that Barbara works with…
HEC Academy students raise $1,135 to battle hunger
…carts along a 26-mile route, from Northampton to Greenfield, collecting donations for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts along the way. This year, Monte?s March raised over $65,000. HEC Academy…
Art therapy: Northampton authors launch new drawing webcasts to help kids, parents cope during pandemic
…is named Miyagi’s Japanese Food and the national sport is catching flies with chopsticks (yes, he recently watched “The Karate Kid”). All the while, as my phone rang and pinged…
US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner
…of both integrated environmental science and food education lessons. Weekly cooking classes have also been part of the garden work. Students volunteer at several sustainability organizations, such as the annual…