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Franklin native Leah Silipo was recently awarded the Harvard Club of Boston 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Silipo was one of five high school teachers in New England to be selected as a recipient of the award this year. She joined other teachers and over 200 student winners of the Harvard Club’s Prize Book Award at a celebratory breakfast on Oct. 7, held in their honor at the Harvard Club of Boston.
Salipo was raised in Franklin and is a 2000 graduate of Franklin High School and a 2004 graduate of the University of New Hampshire. She has been teaching at Sharon High School for 12 years.
The Franklin Housing Authority will have a groundbreaking ceremony next week for a housing building on Plain Street.
The event, set for Monday morning, will celebrate the beginning of work on an eight-unit facility set to house state Department of Developmental Services clients.
Lisa Audette, the town's Housing Authority agent, said the work is an exciting development for the authority.
"It's a fantastic opportunity for DDS clients," she said. "There is a need for this type of housing."
Being mindful of hidden curriculum. http://t.co/DjbfNgWr3Z #YourEdustory #middleschool @WildemanBrian @KYankeeDHS
— Jim d'Entremont (@Jim_dEntremont) September 24, 2015
Via @washingtonpost Artificial turf gets a closer look after report raises safety concerns http://t.co/YJDpudthMl @FranklinMatters @jeffroy
— Turf Grass Forum (@turfgrassforum) September 23, 2015
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Check it out! I donated to Kyle and Luke Florio https://t.co/6Zy8B0OIOq
— FranklinChargers (@FranklinCharger) September 24, 2015
"Chris Kennedy is the father of four young children and the husband to an amazing woman.
When not busy as a husband and father he is the Superintendent of Schools with the West Vancouver School District.
Chris is a passionate teacher and strong advocate for public education. You can connect with Chris through his Culture of Yes blog—cultureofyes.ca and on Twitter @chrkennedy."
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The book-a-day challenge continues and I have read 55 books over the past 27 days. My goal is to reach 68 books to mark the 68 days of summer AND to review them all on Goodreads and here, on the blog. How is your summer reading going so far?Mrs Williams is a 4th grade teacher here in Franklin and very busy reading and writing this summer.
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The Franklin High School teacher accused in August of serious misconduct was fired last week following an internal investigation.
The school district’s attorney found that the instructor showed "conduct unbecoming of a teacher," said Superintendent Maureen Sabolinski, who would not go into further detail.
"The teacher was represented and had due process," she said on Tuesday.
A great local school, Sunrise Montessori School, is looking for a part-time teacher. Candidates should be EEC Lead Teacher or Teacher Certified. Please call 508 541 8010 or e-mail your resume to: Director@MySunriseMontessori.com
For more information about the school see the website: www.mysunrisemontessori.com
... effective mentoring of a new teacher can make an enormous difference in that person's ability to become a "star" teacher. But the problem, he argues, is that the process of mentorship is much too haphazard. As he says, "It's like training NFL quarterbacks by randomly sending them out to teams - some CFL teams, some Division III teams, some Division I College teams, some community teams, and a few to NFL teams."I would go further and ask "What can school districts learn from this?" Teacher development will even tougher in times of lean budgets when mentoring stipends are not allocated. Teacher development is tough already with much of the community not appreciating or fully understanding "professional development days". These "professional development days" are looked for by many parents as "get-away days" for long weekends.
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If Matt Cassell can thrive in the NFL, after essentially zero college quarterback experience, what exactly is New England doing right? And what can the rest of the league learn from them?
Ninety-year-old Palma A. (DeBaggis) Johnson, who inspired her students to convince the Legislature to make the ladybug the official state insect, was struck and killed by a truck while walking to church Thursday morning, according to the obituary provided by Ginley Funeral Home.
Johnson, born in Franklin, taught Latin at Franklin High School from 1939 to 1944, and returned to teaching at Redland Park Kindergarten and the Kennedy Elementary School after her children were grown.
Thirty-four years ago, Johnson inspired her students at Kennedy - and legislators - to change the law and adopt the ladybug as the state insect.
read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
What are we teaching kids about life?
There are a few things that must be clearly understood today. The rise and fall of our economic system depends on what we teach our children.
If we do not assume our roles as adults, teachers and mentors and teach a few absolutes, we are setting ourselves up for generations of failure on the world stage. First, greed is bad. Second, the inability to defer gratification is bad. Third, in life, somebody wins and somebody loses at different times. Fourth, to win with grace is good. Fifth, to lose with grace may be better. Sixth, laziness is bad. Seventh, there is a social contract to care for all members of society and to respect their equality as members of the human race.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
Don Roemer, affectionately known as "Doc" to his students and colleagues, spent 37 years in a job he loved.
"I loved it. I loved teaching," said Roemer, a Franklin resident who worked for 27 years as an English teacher at Wayland High School, and 10 years prior as an English professor at Northwestern University and Northeastern University.
Life felt a bit empty when he retired three years ago, so he decided to fill that hole by returning to his passion, he said.
For the past year, he has volunteered as a part-time teacher working alongside a few full-timers at Franklin High School, in a pilot program he proposed last October to Franklin Superintendent of Schools Wayne Ogden. Ogden is the former assistant superintendent of Wayland Public Schools.
"I really wanted very much to have something to do with education. I missed being with the kids. I may be old, but I have a lot of experience, a lot to offer," Roemer said.
"I never got tired of the teaching, I never got tired of the kids, but I did get tired of correcting papers," Roemer said.
As a volunteer, he gets the best of both worlds: giving students one-on-one academic attention, without having to pour through essays and tests, as well as a flexible, albeit, confusing rotating schedule, he said.
Read the full article in the Franklin Gazette here
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In my experience, and in the short time that I have used it, Twitter has grown quickly to play a major part in the way that I interact with fellow colleagues and professionals from around the world. In my classroom and with the children I teach it has been an exciting tool to utilise and support learning. However it is one of many tools that we have at our disposal. I do not see it replacing any of the others we use nor do I see the positive impact upon learning being exclusive to Twitter.Read the full posting here.
| FRANKLIN - Under a strict reading of a bylaw revision proposed at last night's council meeting, children playing baseball or having a snowball fight on town streets and sidewalks could get a disappointing message: game over. |
| FRANKLIN - When French teacher Mireille Malouf walked into the auditorium at Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School yesterday, she thought she had come for an assembly with a broad patriotic theme. |
| The town of Milford would receive a 10 percent increase in local aid and Franklin would receive an additional 7 percent under Gov. Deval Patrick's budget proposal. |
| BOSTON - Gov. Deval Patrick released a $28 billion budget proposal yesterday, banking on casino licensing fees to fund local aid and challenging his critics in the Legislature to come up with their own solutions to the state's fiscal challenges. |