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First Annual Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Monthly Award

Posted on Monday, November 15th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 11/15/2021

Collaborative for Educational Services educators working with youth in the care of the MA Department of Youth Services (DYS) do tremendous work facilitating youth success across a range of outcomes. They do so, in part, by embodying the guiding principles that the organization has embraced in their work with DYS. To recognize these educators, CES… [Read More]

How Children Can Become Caring Community Members

Posted on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: James McConchie, Greater Good Magazine
Date: 11/5/2021
Link: Complete Article

As a parent, a caregiver, a teacher, or even just a citizen of the world, what kind of people do you hope that today’s children grow up to be? Amid a life-altering pandemic and deep political divisions, we can likely all agree that the world would benefit greatly if children today learn to treat others… [Read More]

Sabine Jacques joins CES as Social Justice and Equity in Schools Specialist

Posted on Monday, November 8th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 11/8/2021

CES welcomes Sabine Jacques, who joins our professional development team as a Social Justice and Equity in Schools Specialist.   Jacques is a First Generation Haitian-American woman from Everett, MA who brings her passion for arts activism within the Black and Brown communities to her work as a social justice facilitator. A theater practitioner, actress, and… [Read More]

Angela Burke Receives Braselman Award

Posted on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 11/02/2021

Herb Braselman served as the first president of the National Association of Media and Technology Centers (NAMTC), and was a mentor to many of its members.  NAMTCis the only organization in the United States that is focused on instructional technology and professional development resources and leadership at the regional Educational Service Agency (ESAs) Level. Upon… [Read More]

HCC Receives $1 Million Grant To Build New Engineering Program

Posted on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Business West Staff, Business West
Date: 9/28/2021
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community College (HCC) has been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a new engineering pathways program to help boost the numbers of Latinx and women engineers working in the field. The grant — $956,458 over four years — will allow HCC to design an accelerated, one-year engineering… [Read More]

Gazda visit to RISE program in Springfield

Posted on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

This week CES Executive Director, Todd Gazda, had the opportunity to visit the RISE program in Springfield. This is part of Dr. Gazda’s commitment to visit DYS and SEIS programs so that he might speak with teachers and staff to learn first hand how he and CES might better support the important work they do… [Read More]

Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School welcomes new vice principal

Posted on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Staff Report, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/21/2021
Link: Complete Article

When students at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School arrived for the start of the academic year this month, a new face was there to greet them. New Vice Principal Joseph Moynihan took over for Hayley Gilmore, who was promoted to principal following the retirement of Joanne Giguere. Moynihan, a U.S. Navy veteran and Westfield resident, joined the… [Read More]

UMass Amherst receives $4.4 million grant to train students in cybersecurity

Posted on Monday, September 20th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Ron Chimelas, Masslive
Date: 9/17/2021
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $4.4 million federal grant to educate cybersecurity researchers and professionals, and then place them in jobs throughout the federal government. The university’s Cybersecurity Institute has secured a renewal of its CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. A team of cybersecurity… [Read More]

What’s so dangerous about critical thinking?

Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dr. Todd Gazda, Executive Director, Collaborative for Educational Services, Commonwealth Magazine
Date: 08-31-2021
Link: Complete Article

Educators are charged, at least in part, with the responsibility for teaching our students about the ideals and values of our society. In today’s politically polarized environment it is more important than ever to clearly articulate what we stand for. Do we stand against racism, inequity, and oppression regardless of our political affiliation, or will… [Read More]

CES Executive Director Gazda on WHMP Afternoon Buzz podcast with Sheryl Stanton and Buz Eisenberg.

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Collaborative for Educational Services Executive Director Todd Gazda joined Sheryl Stanton,  Superintendent of Mohawk Trail/Hawlemont Regional School District, and Buz Eisenberg of WHMP for the Afternoon Buzz podcast on August 24th. You can listen to the podcast here at this link. Gazda and Stanton discussed the evolving academic year, school district budgets and ESSER funding… [Read More]