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Latest Events

Dr. Lawrence Cohen to Speak, Spring Open House, on April 1, 2012

We are delighted to announce that on Sunday, April 1 at 3:00 p.m., Dr. Lawrence J. Cohen will present “Becoming the parent you always wanted to be: overcoming obstacles in ourselves and in our environment in order to parent effectively and happily.” Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., the author of Playful Parenting, is a licensed psychologist [...]

Touchstone Community School to Hold Young Author’s Workshop

Touchstone Community School is offering a free workshop for students in grades 3 through 8 who reside in Grafton, MA.  Award-winning author Kimberly Newton Fusco will teach the workshop on Friday, March 30th from 3:30 to 5 p.m.  The school is located at 54 Leland Street, Grafton, Massachusetts (for directions and more information, visit www.touchstoneschool.com). [...]

In the Media

Jane Katch’s article, “Listening to Parents,” appears in Independent School Magazine

Jane Katch, teacher of 9, 10 and 11 year-olds at Touchstone Community School, was recently published in the Winter issue of Independent School Magazine. Jane’s article is entitled Listening to Parents: Finding the Deeper Connection for the Benefit of Children.  To read the full article, click here.

Five Touchstone Students Earn Girl Scout Silver Award—Highest Cadette Scouting Award

Congratulations to our OSP students, Kelly, Amanda, Lydia, Sarah, and Emma, all members of Girl Scout Troop 30398, who recently earned the Girl Scout Silver Award. The Sliver Award is the highest award in Cadette Girl Scouting. The girls, under the direction of troop leaders Sharon Borg and Lisa Walden, spearheaded a community service project [...]

Ed Harrow, TCS Enrichment Program Instructor, Is in the News

When they’re not turning up in other nooks of his Spring Lane home, Ed Harrow’s robot components, model rocket parts and Lego pieces rest inside three rollaway bookcases in his basement. The 63-year-old says his wife calls him the world’s oldest teenager, but the bric-a-brac also serves a larger purpose: The pieces are supplies for [...]

What’s New at Touchstone

Summer Program Director Needed

Touchstone Community School is seeking a Summer Program Director to plan and implement our summer program. The successful candidate will be ambitious, have an entrepreneurial spirit, be an excellent communicator with parents, children and staff, and have the creativity to develop exciting and thoughtful programs for children ages 4-14. Responsibilities include: planning programs that meet [...]

Jane’s Classroom: Tweets from the Class

Tweets from Jane’s Class Recently we had just finished a major writing project–final drafts of personal narratives–and needed a shorter project for writing workshop.  Since writing short, powerful pieces is as important a skill as writing longer pieces, we began to work on tweets.  How much can you say in 140 characters?  We read tweets [...]

A View from the Top: The OSP Fall Hiking Trip

When opportunity knocks on my door, I sometimes don’t know enough to answer. This time the chance I was waiting for was up for grabs — to go on an Older Student Program (OSP) 3-day backpacking trip in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, one of the most rugged landscapes in the nation. I was happy to [...]

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