Kindergarten Snapshot Wondering what happens all day in kindergarten? KJM Video & R. Herskovitz Consulting spent time with the kindergarten classrooms at Jackson Street School to document the rich learning and activities that happen there. The crew spent a whole day following the teachers and students in classrooms and on the playground. They were able...
Learning to Vote Ms. Cowhey, JSS math teacher, showed 2nd graders how to vote today – authentically since she actually cast her ballot with them as her “shadow”!
Kim Gerould, JSS 3rd grade teacher, was awarded a Grinspoon Excellence in Teaching Award at a ceremony and dinner at the Log Cabin on April 26, 2018. The award honors outstanding Western Massachusetts educators in Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties and seeks to motivate teachers at all stages of their careers to aspire to excellence. Kim...
On April 26, at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, teachers from Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties were awarded The Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Among those outstanding teachers, was Leeds Elementary 4th grade teacher, Hannah Kristek. Principal Canata sings Ms. Kristek’s praises, “A very well deserved honor. She is...
Ugly Sweaters and Blue Hair In honor of Bridge Street School students working toward the school-wide read-athon goal Principal Choquette dyed her hair blue! To celebrate the final day of school in 2017 many staff and faculty also joined Principal Choquette in wearing their most festive sweaters.
THE JSS GREENHOUSE IS BUILT! Click here for the full album of photos. The new JSS Greenhouse is built and beautiful and ready for the winter! Classes took tours of our new space in early December, and there were lots of “Oohs” and “Aahs” on the part of children and adults alike. In early spring...
Happy Thanksgiving to you! I am so thankful to our wonderful families at R.K. Finn Ryan Road School!! Happy Retirement, Mr. Owen! Bill Owen, our kind and thoughtful School Adjustment Counselor, will be retiring at Thanksgiving. We will all miss his calm, good humor, and steady devotion to our school community. The PTO bought him...
NORTHAMPTON — A tall, lanky 15-year-old approaches a hurdle made of rope strung between plastic cones. An athlete at a Special Olympics track and field event, he is guided by an aide to step over one hurdle after another. Cheers of “We got it!” and “Yes!” come from watching teachers, peers and parents, as the boy,...
By Dusty Christensen Staff Writer Monday, March 06, 2017 NORTHAMPTON — Amid the piles of brightly colored building blocks, Barbara Black, 66, kneels comfortably among several 4- and 5-year-olds on the floor of a Bridge Street School classroom. “What’s this one?” she asks each child, her seeing-eye dog, Ms. Pie, wagging its tail patiently at...
By AMANDA LEVENSON For the Gazette Friday, October 21, 2016 NORTHAMPTON — Ellen Kennedy teaches her JFK Middle School students that they are capable of saving the day, a pursuit which has gotten her the title of 2016 Fire and Life Safety Educator of the Year from the state Department of Fire Services. Kennedy was...