| | | Youth Block Party RocksTuesday, August 19
PITTSFIELD — The Pittsfield Youth Commission kicked it old school earlier this month at its second annual youth block party. Full Story A look at education in the Berkshires
 Thursday, February 22 Diego Salinetti, a preschooler at The Montessori School of the Berkshires in Lenox, tries to decide which table he would like to decorate with flowers. The school uses a system that allows the children to work on their own. Photo by Darren Vanden Berge / Berkshire Eagle Staff 
Learning all through lifeThursday, February 22
Flamenco dance, accounting, wine tasting are all course options for continuing education
The formula goes something like this: Go to college. Learn a trade. Get a job. Get married. Retire. Live out your life in Florida.
Omniscience will arrive somewhere in the middle, right?
Not if you think like the few thousand Berkshirites who take adult education classes at area colleges. Full Story Teaching, the Montessori wayThursday, February 22
Once an experimental concept, the school focuses on a child's desire to learn
The term had not been coined yet, but Maria Montessori was thinking "outside of the box" a century ago when she founded the school that bears her name.
In January 1907, Montessori — Italy's first female doctor — opened an experimental school for preschoolers in a Roman slum. Full Story Helping immigrants learn EnglishThursday, February 22
PITTSFIELD — Mila Krishteyn, who teaches Sheltered English Instruction classes at Pittsfield High School, came to the United States from her native Azerbaijan 17 years ago.
Based on her own experiences, Krishteyn knows the obstacles that face students who speak little or no English when they come to the Berkshires. Full Story | |
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