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October Featured Grant – Puppets!
During our October meeting, the BEF had the pleasure of hearing from Jill Arnold, a recent Idea Lab Grant Winner and recipient of the Elizabeth Ascoli Award for Innovation in Experiential Learning. Jill is a speech language [...]
May Featured Grants: Music Education at Hayes and Districtwide
Teaching about Roland Hayes in Brookline Music Classes In our May meeting, BEF Board members heard from music educators Meredith Huntley (Hayes), Melodie Linhart (Lawrence) and Becky Vinci (FRR & Lawrence) about two grants from this year, [...]
Celebrating Teachers 2025
The BEF was thrilled to hold our annual "Celebrating Teachers" event on Tuesday, May 6 in the BHS STEM Commons. Over 200 Brookline educators and community members were on hand to acknowledge this year's grant, award, and [...]
2025 Caverly Winners!
The BEF is proud to announce the winners of this year's Ernest R. Caverly Awards for Excellence in Teaching! Amanda Kretschmar, Pierce librarian, and Lisa Rodriguez, BHS math teacher, have won this year's prestigious honor. They will [...]
April Featured Grant: Spanish Class in the Real World
Runkle Middle School Spanish teacher Colleen Doyle participated in the 'Classroom in the Real World' program at the University of Alicante last summer. Thanks to a BEF grant, Colleen spent three transformative weeks in Spain during June 2024, [...]
Hanna Cha Visits Baker School
Hanna Cha, Caldecott Honor Award-winning illustrator and author, visited the Baker School on March 6th. During her visit, Ms. Cha met with first, second, and third-grade students and educators. She shared her process for illustrating, explained how [...]
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