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Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held in Person

Posted on Friday, March 24th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathy Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: March 20, 2023

March 20th, 2023 – Norwood MA Today, well over 300 educators, community partners, clinicians, and professionals affiliated with the Department of Youth Services, or with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) gathered in person at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Norwood for the Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference. The theme for this year’s… [Read More]

Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for December and January

Posted on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: March 23, 2023

The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the December and January winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award!  We honor those educators across the DYS workforce who embody one or more of the Guiding Principles including: College, Career, and Civic Readiness; Culture and Purpose; and Social Justice and Equity, central… [Read More]

Early Educators Chart a Path from Self-Care and Cultural Responsiveness To Professional Growth

Posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Community Stories, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Date: March 6, 2023
Link: Complete Article

Karen Reuter, deputy director at the Collaborative for Educational Services, remembers the moment when she knew its trainings for early childhood educators were taking hold. One of the workshop participants stopped themselves in a peer presentation to say, “Oh, wait. I have to breathe right now.” Trivial? Hardly. According to Reuter, self-care for educators is vital…. [Read More]

U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann

Posted on Monday, March 6th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Press Office, U.S. Department of Education
Date: 03/06/2023

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann: “On March 4, our country lost a great disability rights leader with the passing of Judith (Judy) Heumann. As Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services during the Clinton Administration, Judy helped ensure that… [Read More]

CES Workforce Programs lead to multiple opportunities

Posted on Monday, February 6th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: February 6, 2023

In the spring of 2020, while the world was in lockdown and schools remote, CES Director of Workforce Programs Matt Rigney thought about ways to continue assisting students as part of his work as director of the STEM@Work Paid Internship Program. Rigney had been involved for years with connecting students to internships and working on… [Read More]

Staff shortages throughout K-12 education are taking a toll

Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Todd Gazda, Executive director, Collaborative for Educational Services, Commonwealth Magazine
Date: 1/24/2023
Link: Complete Article

Openings are affecting student programming and services at a time we need them most AS 2023 OPENED, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education met on January 3 for a special meeting and had just one item listed on the agenda: “Goal setting process for accountability system and Student Opportunity Act.” In recognition of… [Read More]

Excellence In Education awards: Living Our Guiding Principles award winners for October and November

Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the October and November winners of our regional Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Award!  We honor those educators across the DYS workforce who embody one or more of the Guiding Principles including: College, Career, and Civic Readiness; Culture and Purpose; and Social Justice and… [Read More]

STCC awarded grant to help close achievement gaps

Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Amy Phillips, WWLP
Date: 12/6/22
Link: Complete Article

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield Technical Community College has received a $75,000 Massachusetts Higher Education Innovation Fund grant from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The grant will support professional development for 20 faculty members in an effort to help underserved and underrepresented students beginning with the application process through graduation. Mary Wiseman, Director of Instructional Innovation and Faculty… [Read More]

CES Provides 2022 Election Day Professional Development 

Posted on Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 12/6/22

On November 8th this year, nine school districts from Franklin, Hampshire, and Berkshire counties partnered with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) to offer a robust selection of Election Day Professional Development workshops for educators..   Over 35 workshops were coordinated by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), and hosted by Easthampton Public Schools, Northampton Public… [Read More]

The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program Partners with School Districts

Posted on Monday, December 5th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathy Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 12/5/2022

The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program (MMEP) has developed strong partnerships and collaborations with school districts that have larger migratory student populations in the Commonwealth. These joint efforts benefit the migratory students and families, and MMEP works to strengthen these models and use them to replicate and/or modify with other districts to best support all migratory… [Read More]