Fulfilling Student Promise at an Inner-City Middle School
Intel Case Study - March 2010
Technology access and eLearning best practices help bridge the digital divide and increase achievement at Lilla G. Frederick...
Logged-On Learning: Integrating New Literacies Into an Inner-City School

The Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - October 2009

These days, the air in the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, a public school in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Boston, is charged with excitement...

Despite Popular Support, Pilot Schools Stalled In Boston
WBUR.org - October 2009
At the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, every child has a laptop. They’re all flipped open as this sixth grade math class learns about decision trees...

Big Sister reaches out to Hub women of color
The Boston Bay State Banner - October 2009
Like their School-Based Mentoring, NBM will operate out of a local elementary school, the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester.

In classroom, getting creative with castoffs
The Providence Journal - April 2009
Matt Knapp, a middle school history teacher, used to spend a lot of his own money on supplies for his classroom. Now, he goes to the warehouse-style shop of Extras for Creative Learning...
Dinners with lasting appeal
The Boston Globe - January 2009
Ask any parent about the demands of homework, sports, and after-school activities, and you'll hear that the first casualty is the dinner hour. In many cases, that meal is sacrificed to the busy household schedule...

Hunt is on for more men to lead classrooms
The Boston Globe - November 2008
When the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester opened six years ago, about a quarter of its teaching staff was male. This year, men account for 42 percent, or 23 out of 55 teachers...

Technology reshapes America's classrooms
Reuters - July 2008
From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves...
Technology Logs On In American Classrooms
Digital Journal - April 2008
We grew up with notebooks, satchels and the omnipresent pencil box. American kids of today welcome the future with all that technology has to offer for schools...
Boston flips the digital switch
The Boston Globe - April 2008
On Monday the city made a proud stand at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, when openairboston.net officially launched its first wireless pilot network in Grove Hall and Dudley Square...

On the grid, a chance to learn
The Boston Globe - April 2008
LAST FALL, a group of students at Boston's Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School fanned out, laptops in hand, across the neighborhood surrounding the Dorchester school. The immediate goal was to test the signal strength of the nascent wireless Internet network in Grove Hall and Dudley Square...

Frederick School helps children of Somali refugees
The Dorchester Reporter - March 2008
A new pilot program at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot School on Columbia Road is offering culturally-sensitive, full-time mental health care to Somali children, many of them refugees.

Schools hope chef's tough whets cafeteria appetites
The Boston Globe - September 2007
Like any good chef launching a new venture, Kirk Conrad knows you have to work the room. He wears his white chef's coat and mingles with the customers, asking about their $2.25 entrees...

School's pride alive in a name
The Boston Globe - January 2006
Before the first brick was even laid, the new school had a name: the New Brunswick Gardens Middle School. The name came from the overgrown land off Columbia Road where it was to be built, a place where prostitutes once turned tricks, drugs were sold, and rival gangs from Roxbury and Dorchester sometimes collided...
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