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Riverdale PTO to hold its first cook-off on Nov. 10

Posted Nov 04, 2009 @ 03:03 PM
DEDHAM —

 

Riverdale Parent Teacher Organization will hold its first cook-off at the Brickhouse Café, at 107 Bridge St., on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The celebrity chefs will be Principal Doris Claypool and School Committee member Kevin Coughlin vs. Vinny Marino and staff. There are two seating times scheduled: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m. Meals include a salad, entrée and a glass of wine. Tickets are $35 a person. Make checks payable to Riverdale PTO.   

 


Holy Cross senior, Dedham resident receives award for work on the Iranian nuclear crisis during Semester in D.C.

Posted Nov 04, 2009 @ 02:46 PM

Dedham resident Elizabeth Conway, a member of the College of the Holy Cross class of 2010, has been selected by the College’s Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies as the 2009 spring semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award. She will present her thesis, “American Policy Options and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis,” on Thursday, Nov.5 at 4 p.m. in the Rehm Library.


Classroom of the Week: Kerri Bryant’s second-grade class

Posted Oct 30, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

How many pockets are you wearing on your clothes? The question is basic, but it leads to a versatile math lesson in Kerri Bryant’s second-grade Greenlodge School classroom last Tuesday morning.

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Dedham's Avery School: ‘Under constant repair’

Posted Oct 22, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

Seen up close, the physical defects of the 88-year-old Avery School are hard to miss. Showing visitors a basement classroom in her school, Principal Clare Sullivan puts her hand on a dark green wall – and a bit of brick and mortar falls off.


Dedham Classroom of the Week: Sarah Martin’s first-grade class

Posted Oct 17, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

Sarah Martin is just beginning to read the children’s book “Tess’s Tree,” to a half-dozen first-graders, sitting on the classroom’s light brown rug, when Victor Dorsinville notices something about the title on the cover.

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CLASSROOM OF THE WEEK:Ruth Dorsey’s fifth-grade homeroom at Oakdale School

Posted Oct 05, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

On a recent morning, the students in Ruth Dorsey’s fifth-grade homeroom class at the Oakdale Elementary School are performing indirect observations – a series of tests on a given box, and then, based on their observations, hypothesizing what is inside. They are not always correct, but it’s the gathering of evidence that really matters, Dorsey says.

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Planet Fitness scholarship to help Dedham teens get in shape

Posted Oct 03, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

Planet Fitness is teaming up with the Dedham public schools to offer a “wellness scholarship” that will be open to four Dedham High students, one from each grade.


Q&A with Dedham Middle School principal Debra Gately

Posted Oct 01, 2009 @ 07:00 AM
DEDHAM —

Dedham Middle School’s new principal Debra Gately talks with the Dedham Transcript about the job and her vision for the school.

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US probes civil rights violation at Dedham Middle School

Posted Sep 30, 2009 @ 03:06 PM
Last update Oct 01, 2009 @ 01:05 PM
DEDHAM —

The U.S. Department of Education sent an investigator to the Dedham public schools’ administration offices Tuesday as it scrutinizes a complaint lodged by Dedham Middle School teachers alleging that “the district denied students with disabilities a free, appropriate public education by not providing teachers trained in instructing” such students.

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From the Library: The best in the business

Posted Sep 22, 2009 @ 04:40 PM
NORWOOD —

I confess I am often on an unrequited quest to impress my daughters with my technical know-how, my online savvy, and my never-ending recommendations for books.

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