Beneth Goldschmidt-Sauer

The gaping hole in our wholeness

The gaping hole in our wholeness

We need a collective recognition of how this huge and recurrent grief has affected our town

First there are no leaves, then there are, and so April rolls into May - each year the same, each year a surprise.

I remember the same shock of recognition, a presentiment of immeasurable intimacy and eventual physical distance, when I saw the first series of sonograms of my daughter, still in utero: She seemed to be waving to me, her hand as tender and tremulous as a new leaf; in the next shot, she had turned away and was resolutely sucking her thumb.

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New techniques help students learn to put their minds at ease

Students come to school carrying psychological pain from sometimes unknowably difficult homes. Thanks to new training in WSSU schools, a range of adults in students’ young lives can now help kids move themselves ahead of life trauma that can weigh them down and sabotage their education.

For Windham Southeast Supervisory Union staff, the return to school in the fall means excitement, a surge of energy, and at least one night spent tossing and turning in anticipation of new rosters and faces. For many this fall, it will involve a new approach and an enhanced awareness...

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Students can’t use their voices by sitting in silence

Area educators and parents rebut memo with recommendations from education secretary

We have read with great concern and consternation Rebecca Holcombe's memorandum on “Student Voice and Civil Debate,” addressed to superintendents, principals, independent school headmasters, and all educators in Vermont. In this memo, the secretary of education urges the aforementioned parties to foster students' ability to use their voices to...

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