For award-winning seventh grade math teacher Connell Cloyd of the Henderson Upper School, the secret to reaching a tough age group in a subject like math is to be crazier than they are. The 43-year-old Cloyd, a Memphis native who lives in Dorchester and has taught at the Henderson Upper for 13 years, laughed during a recent interview when he shared that he once jumped up on
Henderson Upper School third graders are learning about erosion and beautifying their school grounds this month with the help of the Martin Richard Foundation. As last year’s second grade class took up the study of erosion with teacher Mary O’Brien, they began to look for signs of the problem right outside their school’s front door. It didn’t take long to find them. Current
A teaching staff member at the Henderson Upper School on Croftland Avenue was taken to the hospital for evaluation after a student allegedly assaulted the staffer on Tuesday morning. Boston Public Schools (BPS) said in a letter to parents on Tuesday afternoon that a “student engaged in a physical assault of a staff member” and several students witnessed it. The staff member
Ismail Mohamed, 40, was charged in municipal court in Charlestown with slicing a woman’s face with a razor blade while she was unconscious. And other crime news in brief.