Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Michael Blanding October 02, 2018 “YOU WANT TO COME SEE the worm bin?” asks Mary, a towheaded 9-year-old, who then hustles me to a shed on the edge of an outdoor garden at the JP Green School in Jamaica Plain. Sifting through a green plastic bin, she shows off dark, wet soil teeming with wriggling red worms. “The worms break down the compost and it’s good soil and fertilizer for the plants,” she says. “It’s like poop.” A few steps away, her 10-year-old brother, Jimmy, is standing at a cinder-block wall, painting a mural of a tree that, he says, grows cats in a “parallel dimension.” Other children are helping to build a chicken coop, or just wandering among the gardens of lettuce, cilantro, and wood sorrel.Nothing about the scene this Tuesday morning in June looks anything like school — and that’s by … [Read more...] about What is unschooling? Take a look at the newest home-schooling trend
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State will require new assistance to 230 struggling schools
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page James Vaznis Globe Staff September 27, 2018 School systems across the state will be required to provide targeted assistance to more than 230 schools where performance fell short on the latest round of MCAS scores or other measures, under a new state accountability system to be unveiled Thursday.The schools represent 14 percent of all those statewide. They include 41 in Boston — making up almost half of the 102 city schools that received ratings under the new system — and will likely add to the challenges facing interim Superintendent Laura Perille, who has been grappling with chronically late school buses and the fate of the system’s aging school buildings.These newly identified schools are in a category just above 30 others statewide that had been designated by the state in previous years as “underperforming” or “chronically … [Read more...] about State will require new assistance to 230 struggling schools
‘Lockdown, lockdown’ is a kindergarten nursery rhyme at Massachusetts school
Allyson Chiu Published 2:10 am, Friday, June 8, 2018 It's not unusual for the walls of a kindergarten classroom to be plastered with colorful posters. But a poster in a Somerville, Mass., school caught the attention of Georgy Cohen and her husband, Rick Healey - and it didn't have anything to do with ABCs or washing your hands. Handwritten in multicolored markers, the neat block print read: Lockdown, Lockdown, Lock the door Shut the lights off, Say no more Go behind the desk and hide Wait until it's safe inside Lockdown, Lockdown it's all done Now it's time to have some fun! Accompanying the text were three images: a lock with a key in it, a hand turning off the lights and a person holding a finger to his lips. The words, meant to be sung, are set to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." LATEST SFGATE VIDEOS Now Playing: Now Playing Photographing the Warriors Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Gabrielle Lurie A time-lapse trip through SF on the F-Market San … [Read more...] about ‘Lockdown, lockdown’ is a kindergarten nursery rhyme at Massachusetts school
School uses lullaby to teach kids about lockdown drills
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‘Jarring’ nursery rhyme at Somerville school teaches kindergartners about lockdowns
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Steve Annear Globe Staff June 07, 2018 While touring a kindergarten in Somerville on Wednesday to get a sense of what to expect when her 5-year-old daughter starts school in the fall, Georgy Cohen took stock of the items one might typically find in a classroom for young kids.Art supplies. Signs about how to wash your hands properly. A chart of the alphabet. Tiny desks.And then something grabbed Cohen’s attention: On the wall was a set of directions for what children in class should do in the event of a lockdown drill, written in colorful and bubbly letters — to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Advertisement It read: Lockdown, lockdown, Lock the door Shut the lights off, Say no more Go behind the desk and hide Wait until it’s safe inside Lockdown, Lockdown it’s all done Now it’s time to have some fun! … [Read more...] about ‘Jarring’ nursery rhyme at Somerville school teaches kindergartners about lockdowns