CES Stories

Back to school: Dual enrollment, early college programs a boon for area high schoolers

Posted on Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 8/20/2019
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — College unaffordability. Increased competition for spots at prestigious local institutions of higher education. The inaccessibility of college. Decreased academic offerings at high schools struggling with budget woes. These are all challenges and problems that local high schoolers face. But a series of programs in the state are providing some solutions. For a high… [Read More]

Hilltown Mobile Market on the move in 2019

Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Caitlin Marquis, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 7/16/2019

Chesterfield, MA – A new Hilltown Mobile Market will be opening this summer, thanks to a collaborative effort between Healthy Hampshire, Hilltown Community Development, the Hilltown Community Health Center, and several Hilltown farms. The Mobile Market—which will visit sites in Huntington and Worthington—will run for 10 weeks from July 25th through September 27th. Everyone is… [Read More]

STEM@Work: a unique paid internship program for high school students

Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alanna Flood, WWLP
Date: 7/19/2019
Link: Complete Article

Matt Rigney, Director of Alternative Youth Services at the Collaborative for Educational Services and organizer of the STEM@Work internship program for students in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, along with Hannah Nicolson, one of this year’s interns, joined Alanna Flood of WWLP’s Mass Appeal on July 19th to discuss the internship program. Nicolson spoke about her… [Read More]

Health care systems, including Cooley Dickinson, turn to a ‘new’ old medicine: healthy food

Posted on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Shira Schoenberg, Masslive/Republican
Date: 6/23/2019
Link: Complete Article

A few times a week, Katie Macomber, medical home care coordinator at Amherst Pediatrics, writes a “prescription” for patients and their families. Macomber is not a doctor, and the prescription is not for medicine. Rather, it is a form from the Amherst Survival Center, designed to look like a prescription, that sends families to the… [Read More]

HEC Academy holds graduation ceremony at Smith College

Posted on Friday, June 7th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 6/7/2019

Senator Jo Comerford (D) was the keynote commencement speaker at HEC Academy graduation services, held the morning of June 7th, 2019 at Smith College’s Sage Hall in Northampton. “Your education has been like a spark, and your job now is to turn that spark into a torch,” Comerford told the students. “Don’t let anybody tell… [Read More]

Editorial: Graduation celebration commences in Valley

Posted on Friday, May 31st, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 5/30/2019
Link: Complete Article

One of our favorite graduations to cover each year is at Mount Tom Academy. The ceremony on the Holyoke Community College campus is always intimate because class sizes are small and graduates are excited and open about how overcoming struggles led them to this defining moment of their young lives. There’s something special about hearing… [Read More]

Mount Tom Academy graduates seven

Posted on Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 5/29/2019
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — When Autumn Fallon stood up in front of her classmates, family and friends at Mount Tom Academy’s graduation on Tuesday, she was the picture of confidence. As she presented her capstone project, she drew applause and laughter from the audience as she made eye contact with the crowd. But she wasn’t always like… [Read More]

Postsecondary Educational Opportunities for Youth Committed to DYS

Posted on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 3/18/2019

The number of students taking advantage of postsecondary education opportunities while committed to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services is growing significantly year on year. In 2018, 1 in 10 youth committed to DYS – 98 students – took postsecondary courses. Thanks to new programming, many DYS students can now consider matriculating into college programs… [Read More]

Deepening Paraeducator Skills at Erving Elementary School

Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: February 25, 2019
Link: Complete Article

The day begins at Erving Elementary School, and Principal Jim Trill’s team of educators are ready. As students leave their cars and buses, they run for the school entrance, where adults greet each entering student with a smile, calling them by name as students move through the long hallway to different learning areas, hang up… [Read More]

Art Inspires at HEC Academy

Posted on Friday, February 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: February 8, 2019
Link: Complete Article

At this year’s HEC Academy graduation in June, guests were treated to a striking piece of art on the graduation program cover. Entitled Social Justice and Identity, and the culmination of a year’s work, the mural represented a project that the HEC Academy community of student artists are very proud of. Adid Roman is… [Read More]