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North Adams Elementary Students Get College Experience By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
01:21AM / Monday, March 25, 2019 | |
The after-school program provide a range of opportunities for North Adams students. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Kids 2 College after-school program gives city elementary students hands-on STEM experiences in a college classroom. Although it was spring break and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Students were off last week, class was in session in Venable Hall. "We do a lot of project-based learning," Kids 2 College instructor AnnaMaria Sebastino said. "For example, we studied volcanos and today we are building a paper-mâché one … we do a lot of different things." The program is a partnership between 0 Comments
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BCC Restructuring Workforce Development OfferingsBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:00AM / Thursday, March 21, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College is restructuring its workforce development arm. The college is currently looking for a new dean who will be in charge of bringing the community education and workforce development programming under the oversight of traditional academic programming. The rest of the staff, minus an administrative assistant, will be let go at the start of the fiscal year and the new dean will determine how the non-credit course work will be administered in the future. "We want to better align our credit and non-credit offerings. Generally, at BCC, our credit programs have been in academic divisions and our non-credit programs have 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Presents 'Hello, Dolly!'| 08:57PM / Wednesday, March 20, 2019 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School District will present its annual musical theater production on Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23, at 7 p.m. in the newly remodeled auditorium at Mount Greylock Regional School on Cold Spring Road. More than 40 members of the Mount Greylock student body will present "Hello, Dolly!," with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart. Based on the play "The Matchmaker" by 20th century American playwright Thornton Wilder, "Hello, Dolly!" is the story of a delightful - and adventurous - day spent in turn-of-the-century New York City. The bold and enchanting widow Dolly Gallagher
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North Adams Students Getting Two Weeks at ChristmasBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
07:11PM / Monday, March 18, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Students will get a full two weeks off for Christmas at the end of the year — but they'll have to make the extra two days off up elsewhere. The School Committee earlier this month approved a 2019-20 calendar that schedules a holiday vacation that runs from Dec. 23, 2019, to Jan. 3, 2020. The extra days are a result of how the Christmas and New Year's Day holidays fall in the middle of the week. "We had two versions of the calendar, as is the practice in North Adams, presented to the North Adams Teachers Association, and we had a vote and this calendar was overwhelmingly approved," said Superintendent Barbara 2 Comments
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MCLA Expands Pittsfield Presence With New LocationBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
06:31PM / Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | |
Professor Deborah Foss said the college has support adult learners for a long time. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Michael Steben earned an associates degree from BCC and then built a career in information technology. He worked his way up in the industry and he got offered a leadership position, heading the IT Department for the city of Pittsfield. It didn't take him long to realize that he needed to learn more beyond just technology. "I've had a rewarding career as a technical person and I've recently been promoted to a management position. In my new role, I quickly came to realize that despite my technical prowess, I didn't know much about being 1 Comment
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Drury Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll| 12:01PM / Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass.— Drury High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2018-19 school year. Grade 12 Alicandri, Vincienza Mai; Beagle, Karina Hope; Bolte, Cynthia Ann; Callahan, Andrew Chan; Caproni, Abby Kate; DeMarsico, Leigha Renae; Haley, Kelsey Helen; Holland, Sabrina Marie; Janz, Jenah Lorin; Koperek, Yvonne Lee; LeSage, Kelby Berk; Macksey, Ashley Lynn; Marceau, Erin Elizabeth; Mitchell, Anthony Allen; Piekos, Lauren Elizabeth; Raymond, Emilie Renee; Scrivens, Nicole Elizabeth; Smith, Abigail Rose; Tatro, Caitlin Rose; Thibert, Jamie Lee; Thomas, Laura Lynn.
Bergendahl, Nea Helena; Bohl, Natasha Irene; Boucher, Sydney Patricia; Callander, Corey
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Miss Hall's School Announces Head's List, Honor Roll| 11:30AM / Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School has announced 48 local students among the 149 girls schoolwide named to the Head's List and Honor Roll for the first semester, which ended Jan. 22.
For Head's List recognition, students must have taken five major, full-credit courses and must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 92, with no single grade below B-plus.
For Honor Roll recognition, students must have taken five major, full-credit courses and must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 86, with no single grade below B-minus. Head's List Charlotte Adelson, Lee; Trudy Fadding, Glendale; Haylee Gleason, Pittsfield; Faia Kronick, Pittsfield; Sophia (Sophie)
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Region 1 Science Fair Encourages Student ResearchBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:39PM / Monday, March 11, 2019 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Students from around the region displayed the results of some three dozen experiments Friday at the 13th annual Western Massachusetts Region 1 High School Science & Engineering Fair. Displays ranging from wall-climbing robots to talking to plants to red dye in sports drinks to coral bleaching were set up on the Amsler Campus Center at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, offering a chance for students to explain their projects and move on to the annual state fair. An item on reef safety had caught Cloey Parlapiana's eye during a trip to the ocean. Her experiment looked at the efficacy of safe sunscreens — those 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Audience Urged to Have 'Courage' to Fight RacismBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:28AM / Monday, March 11, 2019 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — When author and educator Ty Allen Jackson asked the audience at a talk on racism how many of them believed Colin Kaepernick was disrespecting the flag by kneeling during the national anthem, not a single hand in the Mount Greylock Regional School auditorium went up. "OK, thing's over, nice to meet you," Jackson joked as he pretended to exit the stage, his work there done. The audience laughed — and laughed later when Jackson said the mostly white community members who had come to see his talk appeared to be "woke." But even in this progressive little town in the corner of a progressive little state, there's plenty of work to
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Teachers' Union Rallies Support for Increased State Education FundingBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:47AM / Friday, March 08, 2019 | |
Neil Clarke of the MTA outlined action steps to rally support for the bills. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — When the school gymnasium is full of excitement and noise for a rally, some children don't respond well. They cover their heads and cry. But they might not if they had a paraprofessional with them. A couple of years ago, the city of Pittsfield cut more than 30 paraprofessional positions from the school system's budget. Parent Starr Williams on Thursday asked that people envision each one of those paraprofessionals as being one child covering their heads and crying. Williams is a Berkshire Community College student studying social work and will graduate in 2 Comments
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