Brookline Education Foundation

Celebrating Teachers
2022-05-10 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Lincoln School Auditorium, 19 Kennard Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
Educators and the BEF community will gather to celebrate this year’s Grant winners and Award winners.

Celebrating Teachers
2022-05-10 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Lincoln School Auditorium, 19 Kennard Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
BEF donors and board members and Brookline educators will gather to recognize this year’s grant and award winners.

Team Brookline - 126th Boston Marathon
2022-04-18 | St. Mary’s Street & Beacon Street, 1003 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
Be a part of the historic Boston Marathon, coming up this Spring on April 18, 2022. Join us in supporting Team Brookline, and especially the six runners who will be running the marathon to benefit the BEF! Click Events -> Team Brookline to learn more!

Trivia Bee
2022-03-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Join us for the triumphant return of the Brookline Education Foundation Trivia Bee! Click Events -> Trivia Bee for all the details and to sign up or sponsor!

Margaret Metzger Fellowship Reading
2021-10-15 17:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Lincoln School Auditorium, 19 Kennard Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
This October, we hope to bring together our six 2021 Margaret Metzger Fellows to read their essays to a live audience. This team of teachers and paraprofessionals worked collaboratively this summer to craft deeply personal essays about what it means to be a teacher today.
Susan Balogh, Baker School, 7th Grade, Social Studies
Zac Broken Rope, Brookline High School, SWS, English
Alisa Conner, Brookline High School, Spanish
Will Gordon, Lawrence School, Paraprofessional
Colleen Kavanagh, Runkle School, 5th Grade
Wan Wang, Driscoll School, Mandarin
October 15, 2021, 5:00pm at the Lincoln School Auditorium, 19 Kennard Street, Brookline MA
In-person attendance is limited; please join us streaming online via this link! For more information, please contact 617-232-3846.

Team Brookline - 125th Boston Marathon
2021-10-11 | MA
The Boston Marathon is back with historic October running and Team Brookline will be part of the reduced field of runners. The BEF has six amazing runners who will be raising money in support of public educators in Brookline! You can find their individual fundraising pages below. We hope you can help them meet their fundraising goals in this shortened training and fundraising period.

Josh Eagle
Alan Kurd
Chima Ikonne
Bob Neer
Stephanie Guseh
Christopher Weeks

Celebrating Teachers
2021-05-11 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Save the Date! The BEF’s tradition of ‘Celebrating Teachers’ each May will make its return this year, in a virtual format. We will be celebrating our two Caverly Award Winners, Francesca Stark (Driscoll) and Betsy Davis (BHS) at 3:30 pm and they will be presenting their acceptance speeches to a limited audience of family and close friends, and we will broadcast them with help from Brookline Interactive Group Live stream. Please watch live (link below) on May 11th at 3:30 pm or visit our Youtube channel at your convenience. These personal reflections on teaching are always moving and not to be missed.

Equity in Education Speaker Series: SEED Grants in Brookline Schools
2021-02-25 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | MA
The Brookline Education Foundation is pleased to announce a new speaker series, Equity in Education. This series will highlight the BEF’s work to support equity in education and expand the conversation about how the Public Schools of Brookline can better meet the needs of its diverse student body.

The first FREE webinar event is Thursday, February 25th at 7:30 pm, and will showcase the work of SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) grants. The BEF has funded six teachers to take the SEED training so far, and we are thrilled to welcome five of those teachers to speak about their experiences with the training and its impact on their colleagues, their classrooms, and their schools.

Panelists will be Julie Boss, K-5 Math Specialist; J. Malcolm Cawthorne, BHS Social Studies Teacher, and BHS METCO Coordinator; Lindsay Davis, BHS World Language Teacher; Kara Lopez, BHS Guidance Counselor; Hilory Rosenzweig, K-5 Math Specialist

Register here for this FREE event

Team Brookline Runs Virtual Boston Marathon!
2020-09-14 | MA
Now that the Boston Marathon is officially canceled, we want to thank all of the Team Brookline Runners for the many hours of hard work and training they put in for this event. A special thank you to our very own BEF runners: Jennifer Buller, Chris Maddocks, Robert Neer, Jonathan Schneiderman, and Natalie Velasquez! Together, they raised over $35,000 for the BEF programs and grants. Thank you!
We’ll be with you in spirit, if you decide to participate in the virtual Marathon in September!

Trivia Bee - Canceled
2020-05-29 00:00 UTC | POSTPONED TO NEXT YEAR
BEF Trivia Bee and Raffle Canceled
Due to the COVID-19 closures and community safety measures, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this important fundraiser. We really had hoped that life will return to normal and we can all come together to celebrate our community and our teachers. Our goal was to raise over $100,000 at this event. Thanks to our generous Sponsors and amazing, trivia-hungry community, we had already raised over half of our goal.
We know, however, that many Brookline families are facing dramatic changes in their circumstances during this time. If you remain able to donate these funds, we will be most grateful, and we will switch the ticket or raffle purchase to a fully tax-deductible donation. All donations from this event will go directly to fund our grant programs. If you would like to receive a refund for either tickets or raffle tickets, please contact Elizabeth_ascoli@brooklineeducation.org before May 15, 2020.
We also would like to deeply thank all of our Event Sponsors, and thank you for your support during these challenging times.

Celebrating Teachers - Canceled for 2020
2020-05-12 | POSTPONED TO NEXT YEAR
At the BEF, we always Celebrate Teachers, but unfortunately, due to the circumstances, we expect that this event will be canceled for this year. We look forward to Celebrating Teachers again in 2021!

5th Grade Spelling Bee
2019-11-17 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Brookline High School Auditorium, 115 Greenough Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
The 2019 Brookline Education Foundation 5th Grade Spelling Bee took place on Sunday, March 10, 2019.
The first place winner in our March 2019 Spelling Bee was Owen Bergstein from Pierce School. The winning word was “supercilious.”
Congratulations to our winner and to all the students who participated in our Bee!
How does the Children’s Spelling Bee work?
The Children’s Spelling Bee is an “old-fashioned” spelling bee with the spellers taking turns, each spelling a different word. Once a speller misspells one word, he or she is out of the Bee. Prizes are awarded to the winners and each speller receives a certificate for participating. For details on how the Bee works, see Spelling Bee Rules and Procedures.

Tales From The Classroom
2019-10-04 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Lincoln School Auditorium, 19 Kennard Street, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
Join us on October 4th, at 6pm to hear from our thoughtful 2019 Metzger Fellows: Mireille Blau, Coolidge Corner School; Paul Epstein, Brookline High School; Rebecca Hayden, Brookline High School; Evan Mousseau, Brookline High School; Lauren Ockene, Pierce School; Emily Stewart, Districtwide Music; and Meghan Walsh, Runkle School.
Margaret Metzger (1945-2013) taught English at Brookline High School for over forty years, influencing thousands of students and educators through her teaching, writing, and mentoring. She was a 2005 recipient of the BEF’s Ernest R. Caverly Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Margaret’s impact on education continues to be enormous. In honor of her life and achievements, the BEF has established the Margaret Metzger Fellowship Fund to support a fellowship grant program for at least 3 to 5 years.
The Margaret Metzger Fellowship will create grants to support the continuation of Margaret’s work: thinking about the classroom, writing about teaching, and furthering the art of educating young people. In this time of frequent testing, Margaret’s belief in education as transformative and rigorous is more important than ever.
Please let us know if you’re coming!
Click here to watch a video of our 2018 Metzger Fellowship event.
If you would like to continue Margaret’s inspiring legacy and help further her mission to show that “education is sacred,” please DONATE NOW to the Margaret Metzger Fellowship Fund. Kindly indicate that your donation is for the Margaret Metzger Fellowship within the box titled “MY DONATION IS IN HONOR/MEMORY OF” on the “review your donation” page.
