Brookline Education Foundation

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 | 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.
