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Finding Home: We Are Stories
The show is based on four personal immigration stories by artists David Macaulay, Frances Jetter, James McMullan and Yuyi Morales, part of the exhibit on view at Norman Rockwell Museum when it closed to the public in late March.
Landing in the Berkshires: Jerry Pinkney
Much has been written about Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington, but there’s little on his legendary speech and how King came to write it.
Rockwell Museum Young Leaders Program seeks current eighth-grade students in Berkshire County
Museum staff in the curatorial, visitor services, accounting, education, development, digital media and marketing departments are eager to connect with students and work with them through their high school years.
Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates area youth with radio play
The guise is an old-school radio play, directed and performed by talented Berkshire County high school students and set to a backdrop of Gregory Manchess’ illustrations, which will be animated with sound effects.
Of plastic bottles and ‘marijuana wars’: a Great Barrington year in review
2018 has provided enough Great Barrington news to keep journalists busy and observers of town politics highly amused, signaling that the community dubbed “best small town in America” by Smithsonian Magazine continues to be a place in transition.
Texas educator appointed new Monument Mountain Regional High School principal
Douglas Wine comes to Monument with 28 years of teaching and administrative experience and is currently principal at Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, Texas.
Lenox superintendent hired as new Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School principal
Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School has hired Timothy Lee, currently the superintendent of the Lenox Public Schools, to replace departing principal Mary Berle.
New Monument principal named as sole finalist for Vermont job
Principal Amy Rex sent out an email to the Monument community announcing she was a finalist for a superintendent position in Vermont.
A model of collaboration: Public education and public health working together in Berkshire Hills Regional School District
‘This structure means families, school and health care staff work together and support for children is aligned at home, school and in the community.’
–Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School Principal Mary Berle
Muddy Brook principal leaving Berkshire Hills in June
In an email to faculty, staff and parents earlier this week, Berle said she will serve out the remainder of her term as principal of the K-4 school. Her last day will be Saturday, June 30.
Sobering ‘Next Generation’ MCAS test results recorded by Berkshire Hills, Southern Berkshire students
Only 15 percent of Berkshire Hills third graders met or exceeded expectations in reading ability, compared to a state average of 47 percent, with 25 percent meeting the same threshold in SBRSD.
Paul Taylor Dance at Muddy Brook Elementary School, in partnership with The Mahaiwe
The partnership with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is just one part of what Muddy Brook principal, Mary Berle, calls, “an approach [to education] that combines teamwork and innovation in challenging times.”
Project Connection winds up program providing food for Berkshire Hills families
From September to June, one of every three students at Muddy Brook and one of every four at Monument Valley receives two meals for free or reduced price per day. That translates to 100 meals missing for those families, per child, during the 10 weeks of summer vacation.
NPR’s Cokie Roberts addresses women’s unacknowledged role in American history
“It’s important to understand that this country was founded by both sexes.”
— NPR commentator Cokie Roberts
BHRSD families stand to lose big under Trump’s budget
“This proposal would devastate working families. It is painfully short-sighted and makes a mockery of the President’s promise to make our country safer and to support inner cities and rural communities alike.”
— Jodi Grant, Executive Director Afterschool Alliance
‘The March of History’: Maegan Warner’s 3rd grade class responds to Rockwell’s ‘Golden Rule’
In response to a study of Norman Rockwell’s ‘Golden Rule,’ on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Maegan Warner’s third grade class at Muddy Brook Elementary School wrote a poem, and marched a print of the illustration through the school.
Game of chess, anyone? Check out the Berkshire Hills Chess Club
“Chess combines intellectual and emotional discipline – both of which are desperately needed in this irrational time. At the same time chess requires players to be polite and have decorum.”
— Gene Kalish, organizer of the Berkshire Hills Chess Club
Canoe for Clean Water: Lessons at Muddy Brook — the school and stream
“Denny Alsop is a man of conviction and an activist.”
— Muddy Brook Principal Mary Berle, to third grade students, as Alsop met with the class to explain his Canoe for Clean Water expedition up the Housatonic River and beyond
Berkshire Hills to cut teaching staff, programs in 2016 budget
“It was determined with a lot of heavy hearts that we did not find a level program budget to be viable this year. It’s not anything anyone is happy about.”
— School Committee member Richard Dohoney