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Parents and preschool staff highlight play-based learning, urge continued special-education investment after staffer’s death
Summary
Preschool educators presented examples of play-based centers and a parent honored a late teacher, urging the Greenfield-Central Com Schools board to sustain staffing, training and resources for early childhood special education.
A preschool team from Greenfield-Central Com Schools outlined how play-based centers — blocks, dramatic play, reading, music, science and hands-on math — build language, social-emotional skills and foundational academic abilities for young children.
Speaker 4 introduced the special-education and social-work team including Kim Dawson, Erin Day (described in the presentation as a lead teacher), Casey Garrison, Michelle Harrison, Jane Hale, Leah Spricker, and social workers Bill Pollan and Hannah Coney. Presenters demonstrated classroom vignettes and materials used to teach through…
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