Frontier Regional and Union 38

Staff shortages ‘adding a layer of stress’ at area school districts

Posted on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Julian Mendoza, Mary Byrne, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 12/6/2021
Link: Complete Article

Schools across the region are experiencing staffing shortages with more severity than in past years, creating an additional layer of stress as staff and administrators try fill the gaps. The situation is dire in some cases, said Pioneer Valley Regional School District interim Superintendent Patricia Kinsella, with staff members in her district working well outside… [Read More]

School officials: Pandemic has lingering impact on students’ mental health

Posted on Friday, October 29th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Mary Byrne, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/28/2021
Link: Complete Article

Despite the return to in-person learning this school year, education and health professionals say students are still dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I think the hope was this school year would be ‘normal,’ and it’s not,” said Greenfield School Department Superintendent Christine DeBarge. “We’re dealing with the outcome of all of the… [Read More]

Area parents share concerns about school reopening plans

Posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Fritz and others, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/6/2020
Link: Complete Article

With some families favoring remote instruction for their children, others favoring a return to in-person education and still others hoping for a hybrid of the two, there seems to be no one-size-fits-all method for returning to school this fall amid the challenges sparked by the pandemic. Greenfield Recorder reporters asked parents from local school districts… [Read More]

Frontier, Union 38 school districts announce Grinspoon recipients

Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dominic Poli, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 3/10/2020
Link: Complete Article

SOUTH DEERFIELD — A first-grade teacher and a math educator have been named the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts’ winners of the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Awards. Suzanne Wells, at Sunderland Elementary School, and Steven Blinder, at Frontier Regional School, will be honored at a banquet at The Log Cabin in Holyoke on… [Read More]

Frontier Regional, Whately Elementary start school year with new leaders

Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Fran Ryan, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/24/2018
Link: Complete Article

SOUTH DEERFIELD — New leadership in several positions throughout the Frontier Regional Union 38 School District marks the biggest change for the coming school year. Former Frontier Regional High School principal Darius Modestow will now serve as the district’s new interim school superintendent. Modestow brings 15 years of administrative experience and 10 years experience as… [Read More]

Interim supt. Modestow gets unanimous nod from school board

Posted on Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Joshua Solomon, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 6/18/2018
Link: Complete Article

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Deciding to stay with its initial interim choice, Darius Modestow will now officially remain the interim superintendent of Frontier Regional and Union #38 School Districts for the next school year. Following a vote with no dissenters by the joint School Committee Monday evening, the Worthington native who has been the principal of… [Read More]

Lessons learned, problems solved at engineering camp

Posted on Friday, August 18th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Andy Castillo, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/17/17
Link: Complete Article

WHATELY — The 31 bright young minds tinkered, collaborated, and expanded Thursday at Camp Invention. “This is my simple incline track slash marble boxer,” said 10-year-old Magnus Harrison of Deerfield, at the week-long engineering program held in Whately Elementary School. Around Magnus, foam pipe insulation snaked under classroom chairs, over tables, directing marbles into fan… [Read More]

New Union 38 leader ready for first school year

Posted on Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Andy Castillo, The Gazette
Date: 9/6/2016
Link: Complete Article

WHATELY, MA — School Union 38 is set to start the 2016-2017 school year Wednesday with a few notable changes, including a new superintendent . Lynn M. Carey was appointed to the position in March by the Union 38 and Frontier Regional School Committees. “I have enjoyed spending time this summer familiarizing myself with the… [Read More]

New Frontier superintendent champions experience in learning and life

Posted on Monday, July 25th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Andy Castillo, The Recorder
Date: 7/20/16
Link: Complete Article

WHATELY, MA — Lynn M. Carey, new superintendent of the Frontier Regional School District, sits inside her new office in the administration building on Christian Lane, behind a freshly inscribed name plate which sits on the edge of a mahogany desk. “The priority is always student achievement,” she said. “Education is always evolving, kids’ minds… [Read More]

Local schools to form rural association

Posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Diane Broncaccio, The Recorder
Date: 4/12/2016
Link: Complete Article

DEERFIELD — About 16 western Massachusetts school superintendents and others agreed Monday morning to start a “Massachusetts Association of Rural Schools” to address common issues faced by sprawling rural school districts with sparse student enrollment. Michael Buoniconti, superintendent of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts, was voted in as chairman of the new… [Read More]