redesign

After previous middle school redesign plans in New Bedford failed to gain teacher support, district officials are putting the teachers in charge. At Monday night's School Committee meeting, teacher groups from each New Bedford middle school presented preliminary plans expected to be finalized and implemented for next school year...

With New Bedford Middle Schools still seeing little progress, school officials will consider making big changes. At Monday's School Committee meeting, John D'Auria, a member of a non-profit professional development group called Teachers21, presented his findings on New Bedford's potential benefit to adopting Innovation Zones in middle schools...