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Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student LiteracyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting. Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding >> Read More |
PowerSchool Offers Identity Monitoring in Wake of Data BreachBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:59PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Families of school-children concerned about the PowerSchool data breach announced last year can sign up for two years of free identity monitoring services paid for by the school information system vendor. Mount Greylock Regional School interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron mentioned the offer at last week's meeting of the School Committee and said he was hoping to spread the word through as many channels as possible. "We have plenty of folks whose emails have changed," Bergeron said, pointing out the difficulty in reaching every former student or staff member who could have been affected by the data breach. Bergeron said a link >> Read More |
Higher Taxes, Loss of Latin Seen in Mount Greylock's Tentative Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:17PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday began honing in on a budget that will require much larger assessment increases than the district's two member towns typically see. While repeatedly stressing that the fiscal year 2026 budget on the table was a draft, interim Superintendent explained that the spending plan he has crafted reflects the reality of non-discretionary cost increases, state aid that is not rising anywhere near the rate of those increases and some of the investments in personnel and course material that came from the district's three school councils. As it stands now, the district would see an increase in its >> Read More |
Mount Greylock District Updates Williamstown Select Board on Equity WorkBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:31AM / Friday, January 31, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The interim superintendent of the Mount Greylock Regional School District updated the Select Board on Monday on efforts to improve the culture in the public schools, including two that rely on American Rescue Plan Act funds supplied by the town. Joe Bergeron was at Town Hall to talk about the middle-high school's participation in the U.S. Department of Justice's School-Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (SPIRIT) program and a districtwide assessment of its process for responding to incidents of bias and bullying. SPIRIT was a model similar to the DOJ's Strengthening Police and Community >> Read More |
Lanesborough, Williamstown Schools Make FY26 Budget RequestsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:12AM / Monday, January 13, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District's elementary school principals Thursday presented their fiscal year 2026 budget requests to the School Committee. The presentations followed last month's discussion about needs for the middle/high school with Principal Jake Schutz, who also Thursday reiterated those budget requests. Lanesborough Elementary School Principal Nolan Pratt told the committee that the preK-through-6 school is requesting level staffing for the 2025-26 school year. In terms of new funding initiatives, Pratt again called for an investment in short-throw projectors. "I think I've asked for this >> Read More |
BArT Theatre to Stage Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' | 08:00AM / Thursday, January 09, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Tech Charter (BArT) Theatre will present a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at the Adams Memorial Theater. Performances are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 17 at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. According to a press release: "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare is a delightful mix of romance, mistaken identities, and witty pranks, set in the whimsical kingdom of Illyria. The story kicks off when Viola, shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother Sebastian, disguises herself as a man named Cesario. She becomes entangled in the love life of the Duke >> Read More |
Lenox, Williamstown Students Name State Snowplows| 05:32PM / Thursday, December 26, 2024 | |
BOSTON — The state Department of Transportation has selected snowplow names submitted by students at Morris Elementary and Pine Cobble schools. They were among the 12 winning classrooms for the third annual "Name A Snowplow" contest for elementary and middle school students. Katie Simonelli's second-grade class at Morris in Lenox offered the name "Snowana" and Jeff Uhas' fifth grade at Pine Cobble in Williamstown submitted "Ice Ice Baby." The names will be applied to trucks in District 1, headquartered in Lenox. "This contest is a great way for schools across the state to connect with the crews who work >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Committee OKs Overseas Trip Despite Equity ConcernsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:04PM / Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — By a 5-1 vote, the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday OK'd a school-sanctioned field trip to Ecuador despite concerns that not all district families would be able to afford the opportunity. Keith Jones, a social worker at the middle-high school, proposed the trip for the first week of July in 2026, during summer vacation. "The purpose of our trip to Ecuador is to engage students in meaningful community service projects that foster a sense of global responsibility while immersing them in the rich culture and natural beauty of the region," Jones wrote in the application for approval by the committee. "This >> Read More |
Puppets Teach Lanesborough Elementary Pupils About FriendshipBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:43AM / Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | |
The newest batch of puppets that have joined the school. LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Puppets named Melody and Simu gave a lesson on friendship to Lanesborough Elementary School students last week.
Classes were called to the music room throughout the day on Thursday to learn about the trials and tribulations of making friends, how friends work through disagreements, setting healthy boundaries, and more.
While the teachers were inanimate, the topics they covered were very real.
Sponsored by Bedard Brothers Chevrolet, the shows were presented by the Vermont Family Network's Puppets in Education. The school also received five puppets of its own to continue
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Mount Greylock School Committee Hears Need for More TeachersBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:44AM / Monday, December 16, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Things are not adding up for the math department at Mount Greylock Regional School. And there are at least two other departments that are struggling with numbers, the School Committee learned on Thursday. Mount Greylock Principal Jacob Schutz outlined for the elected officials the fiscal year 2026 budget request from the School Council, one of three appointed bodies of faculty, staff and community members charged with advocating for the member schools in the regional district. It's a big ask for a committee that has been making hard choices to contain costs and limit assessments to the member towns of Lanesborough and Williamstown. The >> Read More |
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