Carey Dimmitt

Carey Dimmitt, PhD, Associate Director of the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation at UMass Amherst, coordinates the School Counselor Education program at the University. In the aftermath of the Newtown shootings, Prof. Dimmitt discusses how...

Teach for America

Springfield College student Keri Cecilia and Springfield College AmeriCorps Program Director Shannon Langone  discuss Cecilia being chosen for “Teach for America” assignment in Baltimore. They will also discuss  Springfield Colleges’ AmericCorps...

Y-AIM Program

President & CEO Kirk Smith; Kathy Treglia, YMCA Vice President of Education & Government Relations; and Leslie Key, Commerce High School Senior & 2nd year Y-AIM participant, discus the Y-AIM program for teens at the YMCA of Greater Springfield. Y-AIM...

School Safety

Chicopee School Superintendent Richard Rege discusses what his district is doing to increase student safety in the wake of the Connecticut school...

Psychologist Jonathon Arnoff on the School Shootings

Dr Jonathon Aronoff is a licensed psychologist who has written on the topic of a generation he call “man boys”. Aronoff discusses the societal factors he believes are cultivating this type of horrific behavior and his fear that this type of violent act will happen...

Mass Farm to School Project

Emily French, Massachusetts Farm to School Project’s western Massachusetts Farm to Cafeteria Director, and Chicopee Public Schools Director of Nutrition Services Joanne Lennon  talk about “Farm to School” organizations’ efforts since 2004 to...

Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Reading proficiency by third grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success. Yet every year, 68% of America’s children miss this crucial milestone. Grade Level...

Social Networking Policy

Michael Clark, Chair of the Longmeadow School Committee, and Marie Doyle, Longmeadow Superintendent of Schools, discuss the Social Networking Policy that’s proposed for Longmeadow schools. Longmeadow School...

Ready! for Kindergarten

Sister Kathleen Popko, SP, President of Sisters of Providence; Maritza Smidy, Practice Manager, MercyCare-Forest Park and MercyCare Holyoke Providence Prenatal Center; and Sally Fuller, “Cherish Every Child” program at the Davis Foundation discuss  the...

Community-Based Learning Program

Dr. Alan Bloomgarden, Director of Community Engagement at the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College,  discusses “CBL,  a Community-Based Learning program. The CBL places students from the 5 Colleges in jobs or intern...

Simon Stevenson

Simon Stevenson visits the UMass Research & Education farm in South Deerfield to talk with Ruth Hazzarda and Amanda Brown about UMass’s Student Farming Enterprise. The year-long course covers crop planning in the spring semester, growing crops in summer semester,...