2010-2011 school year
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Digital Teaching for Digital Learners
It’s all about student achievement at JFYNetWorks. Today’s students are the digital generation. To compete for their attention, education has to meet them where they are – online. JFYNet is a structured, blended e-learning program that gives teachers & students the digital tools & professional support they need to maximize learning. Click here to read more…
SPENCER – Local businesses could end up sponsoring up to $900,000 in technology upgrades at two Spencer schools under a plan proposed by a school official and one of the district’s curriculum providers.
Spencer-East Brookfield Superintendent of Schools Ralph Hicks said last week he and Gary Kaplan, executive director of JFYNetWorks in Boston, have met with leaders of five businesses to present their plans. Click here to read more…
20010-2011 school year
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Lynn – Lynn English High School and Lynn Vocational Technical Institute were recently honored during the seventh annual JFYNet Achievement Awards ceremony at the State House. Click here to read more…
2009-2010 school year
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Lowell – Gov. Deval Patrick wanted to see first-hand how his money was being spent.
On a visit yesterday to JFYNetWorks, a Boston-based nonprofit job training firm that recently won a $200,000 grant from the state, Patrick was treated to a weatherization demonstration conducted by Steve Carr, JFY’s Building Science Trainer. Click here to read more…
Local programs prepares individuals for careers in energy efficiency
Lowell – Tim Allen is a big, burly 25-year-old Lowell resident who knows plenty about hard core construction. But since March 15th, Allen has been sitting behind a laptop six hours a day inside UMass Lowell’s Center for Family, Work, and Community at 600 Suffolk St., learning about such topics as heat conduction, blower door testing and thermal imagine. Click here to read more…
2009-2010 school year
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Two graduates of JFYNetWorks’ environmental technology training program, Ellery Sanchez of Malden, seated left, and Samuel Yawson of Revere, seated right, were hired earlier this month by the Conservation Services Group as energy auditors – the first graduates of the new program whose aim is to achieve a more diverse work force, says JFYNetWorks Executive Director Gary Kaplan, standing left. Click here to read more…
