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Congratulations to all of the 2025 Graduate Degree recipients! Time to celebrate all that you have accomplished! 🎉

In honor of Mother's Day, we want to give a shout out to our amazing mother-daughter duo, Laurissa Montigny '23 & Laura Mutti-Montigny '24, who will BOTH be graduating with their Master of Arts in Teaching degrees from Mount Holyoke College this May! Laura and Laurissa are dedicated educators who will graduate from the MAT program with the tools they need to support Early Childhood, Elementary learners, as well as students with disabilities in their classrooms.

Laura (a proud field hockey mom!) earned national honors and was the recipient of the Student Leadership and Service award when completed her undergraduate degree at Mount Holyoke College just last year. Laurissa, fellow MHC alum and four-year standout player on the field hockey team, currently serves as the Assistant Field Hockey and Lacrosse Coach at MHC. Laura's other daughter, Jayonna Montigney '25 will also graduate from MHC this May with her Bachelor's in Psychology and Education and plans to pursue a career as a Middle School Math teacher.

Happy Mother's Day to Laura and all of the mothers and educators out there making a difference in the lives of the young people they serve!

Using Assessments to Guide Instruction
Please join us for a four part series to examine how number sense assessments can guide instructional decisions. We’ll discuss “the why” for conducting math interviews with students, how to group students, how to choose tasks based on the interview data, how to leverage important models for instruction, such as “open number lines,” and bring attention to important domains for numeracy, such as fractions. More information: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/WMMPPLCSP25

Become effective and emotionally intelligent leaders and mentors for the next generation of educators. Join a network of colleagues from across the globe who share your passion for quality, equity, and longevity in the independent school workforce! Three levels of participation!
Learn more:https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Design, develop, critique, implement, give, and receive feedback on professional development experiences that align with the Common Core standards and the particular needs of the school/district's participating staff. Individualize your learning experience based on an area of choice for personal and professional growth: instructional coaching, mentoring, or peer coaching.

Learn more: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Learn to facilitate and support colleagues in using assessment tools to inform decisions to improve practice and student learning. Explore Improvement Science, a new methodology brought to education from the health field, where teachers will learn how small ideas can be tested and taken to scale, potentially impacted organizational change.

Learn more: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Create cultures that support educator development and student learning. Define teacher leadership, explore formal and informal teacher leadership roles, adult learning theory, facilitation of group learning and discussion, mitigate difficult discussions and building consensus, organizational change and the change process, building trust, and other skills to create inclusive cultures for professional growth (and student learning!).

Learn more: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Learn to address issues of social justice seamlessly and incorporate social justice into the design of your learning environments. Take this new learning and self-awareness and apply it to education systems outside of your classroom.

Learn more: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Join us this summer to examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. Begin with counting strategies, encounter word problems, and examine the four basic operations on whole numbers.

STILL ACCEPTING NON-CREDIT REGISTRATIONS!

Building a System of Tens
Study the ways children think about separating & combining numbers & what children must understand in order to work with numbers in these ways.
Wed, 6:30 - 9p, March 26 - May 7. https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Learn more and register: https://gradadmission.mtholyoke.edu/register/NondegreeCourseDescriptions

Assess community needs and values, engage families and colleagues in partnerships, and advocate for students and for the teaching profession. Explore culturally responsive teaching approaches and strategies for collaborating with families to support meaningful and relevant student learning and development. Learn how to use research, policies, and persuasive communications to help build appropriate programs, interventions, and advocacy efforts that promote positive outcomes for both students and teachers.