Mohawk Trail Regional School

Individualized ceremonies to be edited into video of Mohawk Trail Regional School’s graduation

Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 6/1/2020
Link: Complete Article

BUCKLAND — While it might be traditional for a speaker to thank everyone who attends a graduation ceremony, in a socially distant commencement on Sunday, Mohawk Trail Regional School Salutatorian Zane Kitchen Lipski thanked those who had stayed home. “Ask not what your country can do for you,” Kitchen Lipski said, citing former President John… [Read More]

Graduating junior firefighters recognized by Colrain Firefighters’ Association with signs

Posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Mary Byrne, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 5/22/2020
Link: Complete Article

COLRAIN — The Colrain Firefighters’ Association is recognizing four junior firefighters who are graduating from high school this year. Signs were posted on the Fire Station on Monday for KC Mattson of Frontier Regional School; Matt Colby of Franklin County Technical School; Megan Dyer of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School; and Tyler Broughton of… [Read More]

Mohawk Trail Regional School receives $375,000 Mass IDEAS Implementation Grant

Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Carla Potts, Mohawk Trail Regional School
Date: 5/18/2020
Link: Complete Article

Implementation Grant from Mass IDEAS (Innovating Design in Education for All Students), an initiative of Next Generation Learning Challenges at Tides, with generous funding provided by the Barr and Nellie Mae Education Foundations. Funding from this grant will allow MTRS to continue with plans for an all-school redesign, which began last year with funding via a $150,000… [Read More]

When Your Remote Classroom Is Your Car: How Some Rural Students Without Broadband Are Connecting

Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Carrie Jung, WBUR
Date: 5/8/2020
Link: Complete Article

Even though school is closed, on a given day there are about a dozen cars lined up in the parking lot of Sanderson Academy in Ashfield with people using the school’s WiFi. Natalie Szewczyk is one of them. The 18-year-old has turned her Toyota Corolla into a mobile work station. “I stay in my driver’s… [Read More]

Mohawk Trail grads: On to something new and exciting

Posted on Monday, June 3rd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 6/3/2019
Link: Complete Article

BUCKLAND — The graduating class of 63 students filed into the gym to “Pomp and Circumstance” at Mohawk Trail Regional School’s commencement Sunday. Co-Principal Lynn Dole initiated the ceremony, and Salutatorian Jackson Hicks gave a speech focusing on learning to appreciate the present moment, with its apparent imperfections, despite the hopes and expectations for the… [Read More]

Hampshire COG, Franklin CDC, to offer local foods to schools

Posted on Friday, August 11th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/10/2017
Link: Complete Article

As students at Leverett and Erving elementary schools dig into their vegetables this fall, they may be getting a taste of local farms thanks to a new collaboration of the Franklin County Community Development Corp. and the Hampshire Regional Council of Governments. HCOG’s Purchasing Cooperative and the CDC have announced a Pioneer Valley Vegetable Venture… [Read More]

Mohawk gets planning grant for agricultural program

Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Diane Broncaccio, The Recorder
Date: 8/19/2016
Link: Complete Article

BUCKLAND, MA — Students at the Mohawk Trail Regional School interested in a career in agriculture may soon be able to get their start while still in high school. School officials are planning to create a career path for secondary students to study sustainable agriculture and food systems. The program would be in collaboration with… [Read More]

Amherst educator hired to co-lead Mohawk

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

Source: Diane Broncaccio, The Recorder
Date: 7/19/16
Link: Complete Article

BUCKLAND, MA — Former Amherst Regional Middle School principal Marisa Mendonsa of Florence has been hired for the newly created co-principal position at the Mohawk Trail Regional School. Mendonsa will begin her new role on Aug. 1, according to Mohawk Trail Regional School District Superintendent Michael Buoniconti. “With the hiring of Principal Mendonsa, Mohawk is… [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]