Gill Montague School District

Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’

Posted on Friday, May 1st, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 5/1/2020
Link: Complete Article

TURNERS FALLS — National Poetry Month at Sheffield Elementary School usually centers around second-graders, who learn about the art form all year long. But this year, it morphed into a community-building project. Second-graders learn how to read poetry by studying a new poem with their teachers every week from October through June, said Principal Melissa… [Read More]

Gill-Montague selects Hopkins Academy principal Brian Beck as new superintendent

Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 3/25/2020
Link: Complete Article

MONTAGUE — Brian Beck, principal of Hopkins Academy in Hadley, has been chosen to replace Michael Sullivan as superintendent of the Gill-Montague Regional School District. Beck is a Montague resident. Before starting work at Hopkins Academy, he had been principal of Athol High School; before that, he worked at Mohawk Trail Regional School, as assistant… [Read More]

Continuing Earl McGraw’s Legacy in Turners Falls

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Melina Bourdeau, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 1/31/2019
Link: Complete Article

TURNERS FALLS — Joining the Turners Falls High School student recipient senior Andy Craver, Jessica Vachula-Curtis is this year’s staff recipient of the McGraw Uplift Award. Like Craver, English and special education teacher, Vachula-Curtis was nominated more than once, “showing their positive influence on our community,” according to Principal Annie Leonard. Following the death of Assistant Principal Earl McGraw… [Read More]

Andy Craver follows Vice principal’s uplifting example in Turners Falls

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Melina Bourdeau, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 1/29/2019
Link: Complete Article

Assistant principals, of necessity, are often the high school disciplinarians, which doesn’t exactly endear them to their students. So the late Earl McGraw, the former Turners Falls High School assistant principal, must have been an exceptional person. After he died in the fall of 2016, students suggested the creation of an award that would honor… [Read More]

Special ed teacher now vice principal in Turners Falls

Posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Melina Bourdeau, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/12/2018
Link: Complete Article

MONTAGUE — With just a few weeks under her belt as the new Vice Principal of Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, Kathi Smith said is adjusting well. Previously, she was, since 2011, a special education teacher in the district. Smith said she seeks to create a safe positive school atmosphere and feels her… [Read More]

Exemplary Status for four CES-run After School Programs

Posted on Monday, August 13th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services

Four after school programs managed by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) have been awarded Exemplary status from the Exemplary Grant Program of the Massachusetts 21st CCLC Exemplary program, supported by federal funds. “I am extremely proud of every CES after school program.” said Chris Taggart, Director of 21st Century Learning Centers, “In this case,… [Read More]

Sixteen schools in five Western MA school districts awarded Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants

Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 24, 2018

Western Massachusetts schools will receive just over $480,000 of the $3.8 million dollar Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants awarded last week by the Baker-Polito Administration. Sixteen schools within Belchertown, Gill-Montague, North Adams, Northampton and Leverett School districts were awarded between $1,641 and $120,464 towards improving their technology infrastructure. The Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants are… [Read More]

Gill-Montague, Franklin Tech, Pioneer in regionalization talks

Posted on Thursday, November 9th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Miranda Davis, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 11/8/2017
Link: Complete Article

TURNERS FALLS — The Gill-Montague Regional School Committee gave tentative approval to a set of grant proposals that would allow the district — along with the Pioneer Valley Regional School District and the Franklin County Technical School — to study the possibility of shared services and regionalization. The grants, which are offered by the state’s… [Read More]

Gill Elementary Global Finals team gets schoolwide send-off

Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Miranda Davis, The Greenfield Recorder
Date: 5/22/2017
Link: Complete Article

GILL — Students from Gill Elementary School lined the hallways with posters and cheers on Monday morning to send the school’s Destination Imagination team off to global finals. Principal Conor Driscoll said the send-off started with the six sixth-graders from the team running through a banner and going down the hall into the all-purpose room… [Read More]