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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Life In the Berkshires

Equity, Access, and High Expectations for All: What is the ‘why’?

In the first story in a series, Sheela Clary tackles what "equity" means to different people, and what it could accomplish, long-term, in the lives of local students.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Una lezione Italiana

Anyone who reads this will henceforth have zero excuse for pronouncing “tagliatelle” like “tag-li-a-tell.”
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The thrill of ‘pitched,’ the agony of ‘calorific’

The author pens an ode to the New York Times game Spelling Bee, a new pandemic-era family favorite.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Do no harm

"The most exhilarating feeling I recall having as a teenager was not the knowledge of having attracted the attention of the opposite sex, but when a [child] held his chubby little arms up to me."
News

Berkshire Hills Regional School District receives $300,000 Barr Foundation grant

The money will be used at Monument Mountain to continue to move toward proficiency-based learning, expand the role of student voices in school decisions, and prioritize social and emotional learning, among other things.
Viewpoints

At the end of the summer

"The mama snapper in Lake Mansfield taught me that paddling on the water is no place to mourn or plan or worry. It is the place to look and smell and listen."
News

Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome: When cannabis causes the pain

CHS is a very unpleasant, potentially very dangerous gastrointestinal illness that, some studies have estimated, might plague as many as 12.5 percent of regular cannabis users
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SHEELA CLARY: Our second year in

"All around, there is a shortage of cheer, and a surplus of just getting by."
Viewpoints

Top 10 Olympic results roundup: Tanglewood Sunday afternoon edition

Think you have what it takes to win gold on the Lawn? Better leave it to the professionals.
Life In the Berkshires

Parents express what was lost, what gained in pandemic schooling

The parents of Monument Mountain Regional High School students discuss how pandemic schooling affected their children intellectually, socially, and emotionally.
Viewpoints

Life as a peony

Sheela Clary muses on what it means to fully "reopen."
Viewpoints

Equity, Access, and High Expectations for All: Are we truly a public school?

It was clear. The children from more economically privileged, college-educated families took Honors, and the lower-middle, working class, and poor kids took College Prep. In the words of a school official from that time, “There are no poor kids in Honors Math.”
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘Empire of Pain’

Four out of five heroin addicts started out misusing prescription opioids, and while Oxycontin is not the only prescription opioid, without the marketing deceptions its founders created, we’d likely have no opioid crisis.
News

­­­Berkshire Hills School Committee unanimously approves plans for Equity, Access and High Expectations for All

MMRHS Principal Kristi Farina promised the school will continue to hold forums every two weeks, starting after the April break, for parents to air concerns and have questions answered.
Life In the Berkshires

An ‘afterthought’ no more? The controversy over Monument Mountain’s push for ‘equity and access for all’

Supporters say the district has not been serious about meeting the needs of all students, including those who are economically disadvantaged. Detractors say the changes will degrade the quality of education and are being “foisted” upon an unprepared teaching staff and public.
Life In the Berkshires

Part III: ‘Change Berkshire Culture’ expands out of the digital realm

The two ends of the power spectrum are both now working on different, yet perhaps one day intersecting, fronts, to begin to shift dynamics within organizations.
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