Events

Upcoming Events

Condition of Education in Western MA 2022

Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 11:30 AM

The Delaney House | Holyoke, MA

Please join us in Holyoke for a conversation on the state of education in Western Massachusetts.

Recent Event

SEL in a Time of Crisis

March 09, 2022

Zoom

Addressing unfinished learning must go beyond the academic goals we set for students. After years of isolation, trauma, and inconsistency, students and educators across Massachusetts continue to feel the impact of this tumultuous time on their mental health and wellbeing. Our learning needs have changed and educators are eager to address the social and emotional needs of their students. On March 9th, the Rennie Center and Transforming Education will lead a webinar to help practitioners bridge transformative social-emotional learning strategies into their existing practice that affirm the experiences of students and educators as they continue to grapple with the challenges of this pandemic.

Connecting Teachers and Students Across Communities: Campus Without Walls

May 05, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, members of Open Opportunity—Massachusetts started discussing a question: how is it that in a time when all students are learning remotely, their zip codes still determine the quality of education they have access to? Why should learning be confined to the opportunities available in one school building? The group began dreaming up the idea of a Campus Without Walls, where a student in one community could take a class taught by a teacher across the city, or even across the state. In spring 2021, a pilot of Campus Without Walls was launched in Boston Public Schools. To learn more about how CWW has impacted educators, we spoke with two teachers who, despite teaching in different schools in different neighborhoods, teamed up to teacher a Feminist Theory course for 12th graders.