Grassroots creativity: NEF grants continue to enrich learning in Northampton schools >Leeds School third grade parent and volunteer Alissa Imre Geis, works with third graders Alex Bajracharya, left, Rosie Tauer and Rob Smith-Sullivan to help build a glass and ceramic tile mosaic for the lobby of the school on June 5, 2018, a project funded by the Northampton Education Foundation. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Published: 7/1/2021 11:38:58 PM
NORTHAMPTON – Lisa Papademetriou, president of the nonprofit Northampton Education Foundation (NEF), was searching for salamanders in her backyard a couple of years ago. Her daughter, then in third grade, had insisted upon it after conducting salamander research at school. They only found salamander eggs, but Papademetriou was ecstatic.