Departing West Springfield School Superintendent

West Springfield School Superintendent Russell Johnston discusses his time in West Springfield and his move later this summer to be a Senior Associate Commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Secondary and Elementary Education. West Springfield Public...

Amped for Education

Smith Academy teacher Jeff Pluta discusses “Amped for Education,” the program he started that’s built a high school in an impoverished village in Nicaragua. Joining him will be Dylan Talbot, a Frontier Regional High School student who has traveled to...

The Address

America’s Documentarian Ken Burns has been inspired by Greenwood School’s annual tradition of memorizing the Gettysburg Address.  As this year marks the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s famous speech, Ken decided to imbed a film crew and share this story of...

Wilbraham & Monson

Wilbraham & Monson Academy is sponsoring its second annual full-day academic conference, “The City,” on Friday, April 4, and Rodney LaBrecque, Head of School at Wilbraham & Monson Academy joins me to preview the day-long academic conference. Follow Wilbraham...

Police Prep for School Shooting Scenario

Sgt. David Kane from Springfield Police Department talks about the police department taking this week that the kids are on school break to train for a possible school shooting. They are working with STS Consulting in South Hadley, MA that provides training for law...

School Choice

National School Choice Week (@schoolchoicewk) is January 26th to February 1st and highlights the different schooling options available. It includes the popular public and private options, but we are going to learn about lesser known ones such as homeschooling, school...

Music Educator Grammy Nominee

A total of 10 music teachers from 10 cities across 8 states have been announced as finalists for the first annual Music Educator Grammy Award. More than 30,000 initial nominations were submitted from all 50 states. Kurn Hattin Homes for Children’s Music...

UMass Biological Archaeology & Forensics

Ventura R. Pérez, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Landscapes of Violence and Associate Professor of Biological Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst, talks about his field school and his class that deals with bio-archaeology and forensic...