Mary Grandville will be the new principal at Parkway School in Greenwich effective July 1, Superintendent of Schools Sal Corda announced.

At the University of Illinois, 200 colleagues will be partaking in a two-day symposium discussing their findings on how to promote peace around the world through the universal language of sports.

The PEG Writing system, developed by Measurement Incorporated (MI), implements automated essay scoring (AES) through a number of formative assessment software products. This automated essay evaluation (AEE) software system is being used by nearly three-quarters of a million students in the United States and several other countries. While researchers have investigated the reliability of scoring models, Joshua Wilson, assistant professsor in University of Delaware’s School of Education, is taking a different approach. His research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of AEE on teaching and learning.

For positively changing a critical component of North Branford’s public school climate, Dr. Carter Welch Ed.D. will soon add an impressive accolade to his growing list of achievements. Just three years into his work as principal for North Branford’s PreK-2 Jerome Harrison Elementary School (JHS), Carter will be recognized on Saturday, March 18 with the UConn Neag School of Education’s 2017 Outstanding School Administrator award.

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis was one of a cadre of guest speakers invited to help mark Diversity Awareness Week at Greenwich High School. For Roig-DeBellis, a Greenwich resident, the message she brought was how the power of choice can lead to a positive life, even after the darkest day imaginable.

The work of Robert Pianta can be found in every Head Start program in the country. Pianta is the creator of an observational assessment of teacher–student interactions known as the Classroom Assessment Scoring System™ or CLASS, which captures interactions that contribute to learning and development. Head Start uses it to improve teaching quality in centers nationwide.

Former Husky field hockey standout Roisin Upton ’16 (ED) has traded her UConn blue jersey for the green of the Irish National Field Hockey Team.

High school students at a CREC Academy School in Windsor are showing off two projects they’ve built aimed at helping Syrian refugees in our state. “I wanted to make sure they understood immigration from a different standpoint,” said history teacher Parag Bhuva.

Alison T. Burdick, 38, the principal at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School, is a product of the New London school system and was honored by the magazine for bringing in more than $5 million through her grant-writing prowess.

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