Category: Schools

The Brookline teachers union is asking the Public Schools of Brookline to make Friday a half day because of an unexpected September heat wave. Temperatures reached 95 degrees in Brookline on Thursday and are forecast to hit the lower 90s again on Friday as the first week of school wraps up. Justin Brown, president of… Continue reading Teachers union asks for half day Friday amid heatwave

As Brookline High School English teacher Robert Primmer graded his juniors’ papers last spring, he began to spot a peculiar trend. “There would be these quotes from the text that were supporting some idea, and the idea was in the book, but the quote wasn’t,” Primmer said. “It wasn’t what the writer had written in… Continue reading ‘It’s the Wild West’: Brookline High administrators and teachers scramble to adapt to ChatGPT

The Brookline school district has hired a new leader for its Office of Educational Equity. Claire Galloway-Jones, who has worked as a teacher and administrator in the Boston area for more than 25 years, was hired last month as the new senior director of educational equity, the district announced last week. Most recently, Galloway-Jones was… Continue reading Brookline school district hires new leader for equity office

Citing a nationwide shortage of world language teachers, Brookline’s schools are set to implement a contingency plan that will eliminate world language instruction for kindergarten through fifth grade students this year unless more teachers can be hired, Superintendent Linus Guillory said during Thursday’s School Committee meeting. The shortage has left a quarter of the program’s… Continue reading Schools announce plan to cut K-5 language classes this year amid teacher shortage

Nearly half the teachers in Brookline’s K-8 World Language Program have quit or taken leave in the past two years, according to a group of language teachers who are calling attention to workloads they say have become unsustainable and put the entire program at risk. Proposed staffing cuts and teaching assignments for next year that… Continue reading K-8 World Language Program at “crisis point,” teachers say

Brookline paraprofessionals and the School Committee have agreed to a new contract that will increase annual compensation for the bargaining unit’s lowest-paid workers from approximately $31,000 to $34,000 next year and nearly $40,000 by 2026, the Brookline Educators Union announced Thursday. The three-year contract, which will take effect September 1, will make Brookline’s paraprofessionals the… Continue reading Teachers union, schools agree on new contract for paraprofessionals

Members of Brookline’s Heath School have voted to rename the school after Roland Hayes, a pioneering Black musician who lived on Allerton Street in Brookline for nearly 50 years. Hayes was chosen from four finalists in a vote last week by students, families and staff at the K-8 school. The other finalists were METCO founder… Continue reading Heath School to be renamed after pioneering musician Roland Hayes

In the late 1960s, teachers began to alert Brookline School Superintendent Robert Sperber to a problem in their classrooms. Too many children were entering kindergarten with previously undetected developmental and learning difficulties. Sperber initially proposed expanding a new experimental preschool, but when he relayed the plan to Burton White, a Harvard professor and early childhood… Continue reading BEEP 50 years later: Looking back at Brookline’s pioneering early childhood project