SHIRLEY -- "I think enabling the students to do hands-on projects helps to solidify concepts for them," said Shelley Guarino, a fifth-grade science teacher at Shirley Middle School.   Full Story

Correspondent AYER -- Armed with little more than a small table to put her water on, professional storyteller Karen Chace kept an audience of Page Hilltop School first-graders entranced with her tales from around the world.   Full Story

SHIRLEY -- National Turnoff the TV Week fell on school vacation week this year, but that didn't stop Shirley students from celebrating it at school the week before.   Full Story