Meghan Keaney Anderson

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Tue, 02/01/2011

Teachers Rock Winners!

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Thanks to your sea of nominations (over two hundred!) it took us a bit longer than we expected to tally the winners for our Teacher's Rock Campaign. Today, I'm happy to announce that we have 10 winning teachers. We were incredibly inspired by all of the nominations and thank everyone for sending them in. The winning teachers will receive $500 for school supplies from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. read more »

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Thu, 01/06/2011

Teachers Rock Nomination: Lara Figueroa

Nominated by Leo J. Delaney, CEO

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Name of the teacher who rocks!: Lara Figueroa
School in which she/he teaches: Ellis Memorial Pre- School read more »

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Thu, 01/06/2011

Teachers Rock Nomination: Kathleen Walsh-Malone

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We received a number of nominations for Kathleen Walsh-Malone, who teaches at the Kennedy Longfellow School in Cambridge. I’ve gathered a selection of those testimonials below. Kathy has clearly been an inspiration to many. read more »

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Tue, 12/21/2010

Letter to Santa from 4th grader Taylor Lee

A LIVE UNITED request for the holidays

The Lee family, United Way supporters, recently shared with us this letter to santa hand-written by their daughter Taylor.We were so touched by the message in the letter, we thought we'd share it with all of you. In her letter Taylor, a 4th grader, asks Santa to give all of the presents intended for her to children in need. read more »

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Mon, 11/15/2010

Here comes the food!!! Preparations for Saturday's Thanksgiving Project

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A few photos I love of volunteers getting food ready for the Thanksgiving Project this Saturday throughout the region. Thanks to donors, volunteers, Catholic Charities, Interfaith Social Services, Lazarus House and Weymouth Food Pantry, we're going to be providing groceries to 5,000 families! UPS volunteers helped us today to unload a lot of the supplies.

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Mon, 11/15/2010

Teachers Rock Nomination: Monica L. Cawley

Nominated by Michael Powers

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I would like to nominate a very good teacher, one who always goes out of her way to teach and motivate her students. Her name is Monica L. Cawley. She currently teaches at the James E. read more »

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Tue, 10/26/2010

Teachers Rock Nominees: Graduates of Tufts' Science Educators Program

Nominated by Carole Bersani

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The following nomination was written by Carole Bersani: read more »

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Fri, 10/15/2010

How to fix our schools

by Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein and Boston's Carol R. Johnson (and others)

On Sunday, the Washington Post ran an op-ed co-authored by Carol Johnson*, superintendent of Boston Public Schools; Joel Klein, chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Michelle Rhee, chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools and a collection of other educators from across the country entitled "How to Fix our Schools." The op-ed, which the authors categorized as "A Manifesto" has already accumulated nearly 400 comments. Comments now are closed on the Washington Post website, but we'd still like to hear what you think. read more »